• The All-Ireland League (AIL), known for sponsorship reasons as the Energia All-Ireland League, is the national league system for the 50 senior rugby union...
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    Rugby union (Irish: Aontas Rugbaí) is a popular team sport on the island of Ireland, organised on an all-Ireland basis, including players and teams from...
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  • The 2024-25 All-Ireland League, known as the Energia All-Ireland League for sponsorship reasons, is the 33rd season of Irish Rugby's top level domestic...
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  • Ireland national rugby union team (Irish: Foireann rugbaí náisiúnta na hÉireann) is the men's representative national team for the island of Ireland in...
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  • The United Rugby Championship (URC) is an annual rugby union competition involving professional teams from Ireland, Italy, Scotland, South Africa, and...
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  • The Irish Rugby Football Union (IRFU) (Irish: Cumann Rugbaí na hÉireann) is the body managing rugby union in the island of Ireland (both Republic of Ireland...
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  • 2000) is an Irish rugby union player who plays for Leinster Rugby. He plays as a prop and represents Dublin University in the All-Ireland League. Born in...
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  • centenary of the Irish Rugby Football Union. In 2006, an All-Ireland Cup was instituted for the top teams in the All-Ireland League, and in 2010 this...
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    sports rugby union and rugby league share origins and thus have many similarities. Initially, following an 1895 split in rugby football, rugby union and...
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    Josef Schmidt HonFRCSI (born 12 September 1965) is a New Zealand rugby union coach, who is the current head coach of the Australian Wallabies. Schmidt...
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    senior rugby union club based in Dublin, Ireland, playing in Division 2B of the All-Ireland League. It is one of the oldest rugby clubs in Ireland, however...
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  • The Rugby Football League (RFL) is the governing body for rugby league in England. Founded in 1895 as the Northern Rugby Football Union following 22 clubs...
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    English professional rugby union coach and former player for both rugby league and rugby union. Farrell has been head coach of the Ireland national team since...
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    Hugo MacNeill, is a former rugby union player who played for Ireland, Leinster, the French Barbarians and the British and Irish Lions during the 1980s. During...
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  • The Ireland men's national rugby league team, known as the Wolfhounds, is organised by Rugby League Ireland and represents the entire isle of Ireland in...
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  • All Ireland League may refer to any of the following All-Ireland competitions. All-Ireland League (rugby union), a rugby union competition All-Ireland...
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  • Rugby league (Irish: Sraith Rugbaí) is a team sport played in Ireland on an all-Ireland basis. First appearances in Ireland In May 1934 Wigan beat Warrington...
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  • Saints who won the league in 2024. The governing body of rugby union in England, the Rugby Football Union (RFU), long resisted leagues as it was believed...
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  • Lansdowne Football Club, is a rugby union team based in Dublin, Ireland. Called Football Club instead of Rugby Football Club due to being founded before...
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  • in Division 1A of the All-Ireland League. Historically, Garryowen has been one of the most successful clubs in Irish rugby union. The club was formed in...
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    New Zealand national rugby union team, commonly known as the All Blacks, represents New Zealand in men's international rugby union, which is considered...
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  • Ballynahinch RFC (category All-Ireland League rugby union clubs)
    the Ulster Branch of the Irish Rugby Football Union. The first team currently plays Senior rugby union in All-Ireland League, Division 1A and the club...
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    Rugby league football, commonly known as rugby league in English-speaking countries and rugby XIII in non-Anglophone Europe and South America, and referred...
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  • Dublin University Football Club (category All-Ireland League rugby union clubs)
    Club (DUFC) is the rugby union club of Trinity College, in Dublin, Ireland, which plays in Division 1B of the All-Ireland League. The first known record...
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    separate code of rugby league, that the name "rugby union" was used to differentiate the original rugby code. For most of its history, rugby was a strictly...
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  • Shannon RFC (category All-Ireland League rugby union clubs)
    Shannon Rugby Football Club is the most successful club in the All Ireland League, having won the competition nine times. They hail from Limerick near...
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  • Ballymena Rugby Football Club is a rugby union club based in the town of Ballymena, Northern Ireland, playing in Division 2A of the All-Ireland League. It is...
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    Sam Prendergast (category Ireland international rugby union players)
    an Irish rugby union player who plays as a fly-half for Leinster Rugby as of the 2022–23 season and represents Lansdowne in the amateur All-Ireland League...
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  • rugby union and rugby league footballer who played in the 1980s and 1990s. Born in England to Irish parents, he moved to New Zealand and played rugby...
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    Martin Osborne Johnson CBE (born 9 March 1970) is an English retired rugby union player who represented and captained England and Leicester in a career...
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