Ireland Women's Rugby

Rugby fixtures 2024/2025: Ireland matches and major tournament dates for the season

Everything you need to know about the upcoming rugby season

Ireland name four uncapped players in squad for Vancouver tournament

Head coach Scott Bemand will be missing tighthead prop Christy Haney for games against New Zealand, Canada and the USA

Tough days await but Ireland’s women are starting to show what they can do with the right support

Head coach Scott Bemand is just one of the shrewd appointments made by the IRFU since it started backing the women’s team more effectively

Much-changed Ireland look to mark another reset against Australia

Ireland make seven alterations to line-up for Test in Belfast that is part of the celebrations of the IRFU’s 150th anniversary

‘I wanted to get back on the pitch’: Motherhood and injury change approach but not the goal for Eimear Considine

Munster fullback to start for Ireland against Australia after spell on the sidelines

Four debutants named in Ireland team to face Australia

Scott Bemand’s team to face Wallaroos in Belfast on Saturday

Vicky Elmes Kinlan and Ruth Campbell to make Ireland Test debuts against Australia

Scott Bemand names side for Saturday’s IRFU 150th Anniversary Test in Belfast

Ireland to open Women’s Six Nations campaign with home game against France

Scott Bemand’s side finished third in last year’s championship behind France and Grand Slam winners England

Hugh Hogan relishing his role as one of Ireland’s revamped coaching team

Women's rugby: Game against Australia in Belfast to further Scott Bernard’s squad’s preparation for the WXV1 tournament in Vancouver where Ireland face New Zealand, Canada and the USA

Cliodhna Moloney praises positive changes in Ireland women’s team under Bemand after returning from exile

Galway native (31) is glad to be back and confident Ireland can close the gap at international level under new regime

Ireland under-20s women comfortably beaten by England

Irish team gave good account of themselves against an experienced team in Parma

Hugo Keenan eyes Paris 2024 as Rugby Sevens look towards Olympic medal

The Irish men’s squad that finished the season in second place in the SVNS rugby series has an eye on the podium in France

IRFU has no plans to take an Ireland Test match to Croke Park

IRFU women’s director of rugby position to be filled by September

Bundee Aki named Ireland men’s players’ player of the year

Aoife Wafer doubles up as women players’ player of the year and women’s young player of the year

Aki, Gibson-Park and Dan Sheehan on shortlist for players’ player of the year

Brittany Hogan, Aoibheann Reilly, Aoife Wafer up for the XVs women’s award; full list of nominees

Ireland’s improvement clear to see as victory over Wales sealed early in Cork

Aoife Wafer outstanding as Ireland wrap the game up inside the first half

‘I would call Danah a games-playing outhalf’ - O’Brien backed for Six Nations success

Starting XV does not include four of starting team that lost 38-17 to France in opening Six Nations game in Le Mans

‘It’s a privilege to play for both’: Versatile Béibhinn Parsons targets success with Ireland and Sevens

Ballinasloe native will remain in 15s squad for Six Nations campaign before returning to Sevens team to focus on Olympic bid

Sam Monaghan returns to captain Ireland for Six Nations clash with Italy

Head coach Scott Bemand makes four changes from the side that lost to France for Sunday’s game at the RDS

Ireland’s tackling Titan Neve Jones continues cutting down trees in the Six Nations

The 5′ 2″ Ulster hooker was outstanding in the opening game against France with 24 tackles

Ireland take plenty of positives from another tough French examination

New defence coach Declan Danaher has already had an impact but more work needed to sharpen attack

Ireland coach Scott Bemand: ‘We draw a line in the sand, and we can’t go backwards from that’

New head coach takes plenty of positives from opening defeat against France

Ireland show positive signs of rebuild despite defeat in Six Nations opener in France

A ferocious defensive effort saw Ireland make 175 tackles in Le Mans

Eve Higgins comfortable in the spotlight as Ireland’s centre of attention

Player was just 16 when assimilating into Ireland Sevens squad and 18 when handed first contract

Ireland v France: Daunting task ahead for Ireland’s women as team rebuilding continues

Ireland have been beaten by Les Bleus six times in succession, and coach Scott Bemand will go for a functional, kicking-based game to keep Ireland in the running

Sam Monaghan and Ireland ready to embrace daunting Six Nations challenge

France away in their Six Nations opener a tough assignment for Scott Bemand’s Irish women’s squad

Mary Hannigan: Ireland rugby’s main men could do with a rest as new soccer faces ready to roar

A bone to pick with Peter O’Mahony; Women’s rugby team ready for noisy opener; National Football League limps to a finish

Bring the noise: Ireland women’s rugby team prepare for encounter with France

Six Nations preview: ‘We know it will be raucous … hopefully, we can make it work if we fire some shots and quiet that crowd,’ says head coach

Ireland call on Béibhinn Parsons among Sevens players available for Six Nations squad

Head coach Scott Bemand named 35-strong squad along with seven training panellists

The Irish Times/Sport Ireland Sportswoman Award for January: Lucy Mulhall (Rugby)

Ireland Sevens captain led side to a first World Series gold medal in Perth in January

Vikki Wall: ‘I’ve learned that maybe you take your instinct for granted sometimes’

What Wall believes has transferred from GAA to rugby is informative about the sport she used to play and one she holds close

Ireland Women’s Sevens rightly eye an Olympic podium place

Ireland beat top dogs Australia to win their first World Series final in Perth on Sunday

Nichola Fryday signs off Ireland career with Women’s Player of the Year award

Exeter Chiefs lock focused on achieving in her club career and her personal life after retirement

Sexton, Aki, Porter, Keenan and Doris nominated by rugby writers for men’s player of the year

Nichola Fryday, Neve Jones, Deirbhile Nic a Bháird and Aoife Dalton are all up for the top women’s award

Matt Williams: David Humphreys should split his new IRFU role in three

Ireland's new performance director should realise it is impossible for just one person to look after the men’s, women’s, Sevens, club and underage game

Late try from Neve Jones helps Ireland pip Spain to WXV 3 title

Ireland trailed 13-3 at half-time but two second-half tries turned things around in Dubai

Ireland aim to confirm improvement by beating bogey team Spain

For Ireland women's rugby team, winning the third division would be a tangible indicator of progress under Scott Bemand

Kathryn Dane: ‘I was surprised by the lack of preparation women had for rugby tackles’

Ireland international is researching women’s tackling safety for her PhD - and working to get back into competition following a brain haemorrhage

Ireland name side to play Spain in final round of WXV3

Co-captains Sam Monaghan and Edel McMahon start in the second row and back row respectively

WXV3: Ireland score 10 tries in comfortable win over Colombia

Neve Jones and Beibhinn Parsons star in Dubai as Ireland make it two wins from two

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