Rugby

Last weekend RTE televised the women’s rugby match against France. It was a Saturday night 8pm broadcast. Figures from RTE show that the game had an average of 159,700 viewers across the broadcast with a share of 10.76% of the available audience, it peaked at 173,300 viewers between 21.30 and 21.45. The overall  reach (those […]

Ireland v Italy Going into this fixture we knew it was never going to be easy. With Italy progressing over the past year and qualifying for the World Cup they were a strong challenge for the new look Irish side. With a frantic first 20 minutes it took us a while to settle and get […]

For Lucy Mulhall, captain of the Irish Rugby 7s and her team it was difficult looking on at the World Series this year and not to be part of it. Last weekend the team changed that situation and have qualified for the next World Rugby Series which will kick off later in the year in […]

The Ireland Women’s Management team can confirm that Niamh Briggs has been ruled out of the Women’s Rugby World Cup through injury. The experienced full-back had successfully recovered from the hamstring injury that had ruled her out of the Six Nations but suffered an injury to her Achilles in training. Ireland Women’s Head Coach Tom […]