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Beirne and Dalton claim top prizes at awards ceremony

Tadhg Beirne and Aoife Dalton were the big winners at the Rugby Player Ireland awards, claiming the men's and women's top prizes, respectively.

Rugby • 28 May

Tom Farrell has been Munster's best player this season

Munster's Farrell up for RPI player of the year award

Uncapped Munster centre Tom Farrell is among the nominees for the Rugby Players Ireland Player of the Year award, with Ireland internationals Tadhg Beirne, Jamison Gibson-Park and Caelan Doris also on the shortlist.

Rugby • 21 May

Bundee Aki, Dan Sheehan and Jamison Gibson-Park have been nominated for Player of the Year

Aki, Sheehan and Gibson Park nominated at RPI awards

Bundee Aki, Jamison Gibson-Park and Dan Sheehan have been nominated for men's XV Player of the Year at next week's Rugby Players Ireland awards.

Rugby • 14 May 24

Marcus Horan: 'I don't think the edge is taken off the game at all'

Shake it off and get on with it mentality gone - Horan

Marcus Horan believes the 'shake it off' mentality is gone from rugby and has welcomed a new initiative aimed at the welfare of retired players.

Rugby • 16 Apr 24

Caelan Doris and Neve Jones took the top awards

Doris and Jones take top rugby awards

Caelan Doris has been named as the Ireland men's XVs players' players of the year, while Neve Jones took the women's honour at this year's Rugby Players Ireland awards.

Rugby • 26 May 23

Josh van der Flier and Sam Monaghan claimed the men's and women's Player of the Year awards

Van der Flier and Monaghan take POTY awards

Josh van der Flier and Sam Monaghan were the big winners at this year's Rugby Players Ireland awards, being names, winning the Accenture XV's Player's Player of the Year prizes.

Rugby • 18 May 22

From top left clockwise: Mack Hansen, Sam Monaghan, Hugo Keenan, Caelan Doris, Eve Higgins, Linda Djougang and Josh van der Flier

Rugby players of year nominees announced

Caelan Doris, Josh van der Flier, Hugo Keenan and Mack Hansen have been nominated for the Players' Player of the Year award.

Rugby • 11 May 22

'The problem for the IRFU is their model is predicated very much on putting bums on seats'

Donal Lenihan: '10% pay cut for players is reasonable'

Donal Lenihan believes the 10% salary reduction and income deferrals for elite players until the end of the year is a reasonable solution in uncertain financial times for Irish rugby.

Rugby • 14 Jul 20

Bernard Jackman: 'Before they agree any pay cuts they want to understand what position the IRFU are in'

Jackman confident players will resolve pay-cut dispute

Bernard Jackman fully expects the IRFU and Rugby Players Ireland to come to a resolution over proposed pay cuts and said he'd be "shocked" if any leading stars left the provinces because of the dispute.

Rugby • 05 Jul 20

Talks between the IRFU and Rugby Players Ireland appear to have been leaked

Rugby Players Ireland hit out at pay-cut leaks

Rugby Players Ireland have hit out at the leaking of talks on pay-cuts for players between themselves and the IRFU, as negotiations between the two bodies continue.

Rugby • 14 Jun 20

Sevens stars take up Rugby Players Ireland positions

Ireland Sevens players Louise Galvin and Greg O'Shea have been appointed to the Executive Committee of Rugby Players Ireland in recognition of a sport that continues to flourish.

Rugby • 24 Apr 19

Ireland and Munster scrum-half Conor Murray has asked for information regarding the extent of his neck injury to be kept private

Murray 'is the data subject, and the data controller'

The EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was put in place to "reshape the way in which data is handled across every sector", and Irish rugby is already well acquainted with the ramifications.

Rugby • 20 Oct 18

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