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@RonanOGara10
played the final game of a glittering professional rugby career on this day in 2013 (📷
@Inphosports
)
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YESSSS JOHNNY!!!! 🇮🇪☘️🇮🇪☘️🇮🇪
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Three years on. Remembering Anthony Foley today, and every day ❤️
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#RIP
#Axel
#MunsterMan
📸:
@Inphosports
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BREAKING: Leinster and Ireland’s Dan Leavy announces his retirement from rugby with immediate effect.
More to follow...
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Eight Irish Lions in this year’s squad
🦁 Conor Murray
🦁 Robbie Henshaw
🦁 Bundee Aki
🦁 Tadhg Furlong
🦁 Andrew Porter
🦁 Tadhg Beirne
🦁 Iain Henderson
🦁 Jack Conan
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Ian Keatley looks back on eight years of highs and lows at Munster and the next chapter of his career in Italy.
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A group of Irish women's players have asked the Department of Sport to intervene in the IRFU's ongoing reviews.
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"When we drove to the stadium today, we looked out at the incredible support.
"For them to come all the way here and show that is unbelievable."
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'People can say that I'm not backing myself, but believe me, I backed myself for long enough'
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Many Munster fans felt Ireland were missing a trick by opting against including Jean Kleyn.
Rassie Erasmus clearly felt the same:
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If you like your rugby, you will like this piece of reporting.
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'Some days it wasn't good enough, other days it was, but every day I gave it my all'
@WilliamsDuncan
reflects on a professional rugby career during which he made 163 appearances for Munster.
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"He's someone who Munster can build a team around.
"And there's more coming, the academy has good young lads."
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Claire Molloy made a huge impact for Ireland over the course of her 74 caps.
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A week after losing 33-7 to Australia, Ireland 7s turn the tables (and top the pool) with a 24-14 win in Paris
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This sensational Irish team try has just won World Rugby Try of the Year
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Peter Stringer announces his retirement from professional rugby, aged 40.
"The journey has been an uncompromising obsession filled with memories I will cherish forever."
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After 20 years as a professional, Donncha O’Callaghan will play his final game this weekend.
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"I was Googling Richie McCaw, David Pocock, Michael Hooper, Kieran Read, looking at their weight and their height" - CJ Stander.
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Chris Farrell was absolutely superb for Ireland today.
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La Rochelle have officially confirmed the signing of Ireland international Ultan Dillane:
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BREAKING: Conor Murray has agreed a new contract with
@IrishRugby
which will see the 29-year-old remain in Ireland until at least June 2022.
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Now there's video footage of that brilliant moment between Sonny Bill and the young fan
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"I was gutted.
"It's my home club. I was willing to take a pay cut to play for my province."
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Great to see Alison Miller back on the rugby pitch this weekend
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Unbelievable. Ireland have beaten four-time World Champions New Zealand 17 - 14.
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"All of the committee people who are going to the All Blacks match, having their pre-match meal and thinking everything is rosy, you have a responsibility to ask the right questions."
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Munster man Roman Salanoa has linked up with Ireland for the weekend in Cardiff:
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CJ Stander has made 779 carries and 502 tackles over the course of his Ireland career.
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Rowntree and his coaches have completely transformed these Munster players.
Fringe figures have become key men, all of them are more skillful and confident.
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This will be the first time in Irish broadcasting that a rugby game will be fully voiced and analysed by female talent.
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The win means Ireland have been promoted to the elite level of the game for 2020.
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Brilliant picture of the
@IrishRugby
contingent involved in
@Barbarian_FC
women's first-ever outing - and win - on Friday! 🇮🇪
@Inphosports
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"We are ready for this and this group of players are ready for this. It will only get better lads, I promise you that."
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Superb touch from Leinster, as they pay tribute to Anthony Foley by wearing Munster red t-shirts with 8 on the back,.
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Astonishing scenes as Japan shock mighty South Africa
http://t.co/iw8nL0xLh1
http://t.co/yxrqOe7vFD
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Good to see Andrew Porter going nice and light with his reps as the end of the season draws closer.
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Entering the coliseum! Incredible
@Inphosports
shot as the Ireland team bus arrived at the Aviva Stadium.
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After so many years of pain, Munster can call themselves a champion team again.
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It was a deserved Ireland victory in an outstanding Test match and just reward for Andy Farrell's side's willingness to attack.
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Ex-Munster wing Seán French has been prolific for Bedford in the English Championship:
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Eoghan Barrett and Ben Roche will pursue professional careers in France.
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Conor Murray, Peter O'Mahony, Keith Earls, and Stephen Archer were all around back in 2011:
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The Irish broadcaster has been a major supporter of the championship in recent years.
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Following professional rugby can be a thrill, but very little beats the sense of pride, attachment, and family that club rugby provides.
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We have just seen one of the great sporting moments of all-time!
#JPN
http://t.co/EvEQ5lHUsJ
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The Munster flanker was superb in last weekend's big win over Wales.
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SBW explains why he gave away his World Cup medal immediately after the game
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The most important coaching announcement today
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Find someone who loves you as much as James Lowe loves when Garry Ringrose scores a try.
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This is brilliant. What a story!
In 2005 on the Australian Schoolboys tour of UK and Ireland we were billeted out with families in Limerick. The family I was billeted with: the Murrays. I don't think
@ConorMurray_9
or I were thinking we'd go on to face each other in test rugby. Great to catch up after the game.
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"Axel just rang me and said, 'Listen, come out to training and throw your two cents in.
"He didn’t have to do that."
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Ireland pay fitting tribute to Anthony Foley ahead of All Blacks clash:
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An unsung hero for Munster, Billy Holland has stuck with his native province through the good times and the bad.
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Beautiful offload from Rory Scannell (not in Ireland squad) to Simon Zebo (not in Ireland squad) for opening try.
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14 points down? Why not throw on the world's best scrum-half and see what he can do
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"He's the most kind-hearted, most genuine bloke that you'll ever meet."
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Graham Rowntree already has a Munster tattoo on his upper left arm, writes
@GavanCasey
, and about six inches north of that you’ll find an enormous chip. He wears both of them well.
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Waves, wind and excruciating blisters were only half the problem. Unbelievable effort from
@auld__stock
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"The 'Voice of Rugby' for generations."
Jim Sherwin, RIP.
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'He was a proud Scotsman, but he gave everything to the cause of Munster and Irish rugby'
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Ireland have beaten the Springboks on South African soil for the first time in history!
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Ireland prove too ferocious for France in Cardiff
http://t.co/gtQwxbjt8T
http://t.co/KfTRX74EjZ
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The 38-year-old former Munster and Ireland lock is set to retire at the end of the season.
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'It’s a tough day for me here actually today. The last game in the Aviva for me probably…so nice to finish with a win anyway.'
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The 19-14 cup final victory over Australia saw the Irish team become the first from the Ireland Rugby Sevens programme to take such honours
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Ireland named 2018 World Rugby Team of the Year. Incredible stuff.
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Keith Earls issues plea on behalf of his daughter for the public to 'listen to the professionals'.
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Brendan Macken has retired at the age of 29 after a career with Leinster, Wasps, and London Irish.
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Michael Allen was 26 when he was forced to seriously rethink his career path.
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It's understood McCarthy is now set for a move to play his club rugby in the US with a Major League Rugby team.
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The former Leinster man looks set to continue his career in the US.
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'You don't play as many games as Keith Earls has by not being world class'
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As Kleyn makes his Springboks debut against Australia, he will be cheered on from all over Munster:
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Stringer: 'I’ve looked for reasons to retire and I can’t see any'
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Tadhg Beirne believes Ireland are heading in the right direction after signing off their Six Nations campaign with a Triple Crown.
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'Ireland has welcomed me with open arms' - Bundee Aki.
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