The Connacht Rugby squad which departed Ireland yesterday for a five day training camp in the South of France featured four Roscommon connections. Picture Credit: ©INPHO/James Crombie Pat Lam’s men will also take part in the Challenge Vaquerin in Saint-Affrique with a game against Top 14 side Montpellier tomorrow (Thursday August 11th) at 8pm local …
Connacht Rugby and BLK today unveiled the new Connacht Rugby home jersey, which is now available in Elverys Intersport stores nationwide and online. Picture Credit ©INPHO/James Crombie Roscommon’s Denis Buckley was joined by Niyi Adeolokun and Jake Heenan at the Sportsground this morning to launch the new range. BLK, in its fourth year as Connacht …
Elverys Intersport, one of Ireland’s leading sports retailers with 58 stores nationwide, is to be the new title sponsor and official retail partner of Connacht Rugby. Picture Credit: INPHO/James Crombie The new three-year deal will re-establish Elverys’ relationship with Connacht Rugby dating back to 2005. Connacht had its most successful season in 2015/16 with the …
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PRO12 Champions Connacht Rugby were drawn with Wasps, Toulouse and Zebre Rugby in Pool 2 of the European Champions Cup earlier today. Giving his reaction to the draw, head coach Pat Lam said: “Firstly, it was just fantastic to have been part of the draw and to have earned the right to be there. We’re …
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Connacht Rugby have announced that Danny Qualter, JP Cooney and Shane O’Leary have all signed on to continue with the senior squad for 2016/17 while back-row forward Rory Moloney has been promoted from the Connacht Academy to join the senior ranks. All three senior players featured in a number of games this season across both …
Ahead of this afternoon’s Captain’s Run at BT Murrayfield, Connacht Head Coach Pat Lam has named his match day squad to take on Leinster Rugby in the Guinness PRO12 final tomorrow. For the first time all season, the Connacht coach has made no changes to the match day 23 from the last fixture. Galway man …
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Connacht Rugby have released a short video to coincide with the recent launch of its Vision & Strategy 2016 – 2020. Further details on the national launch of the Vision & Strategy 2016 – 2020 can be viewed here. Grassroots to Green Shirts is a journey that starts with participation, is fuelled with perspiration and …
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Following this morning’s Captain’s Run, Connacht Head Coach Pat Lam named his match day squad to take on Glasgow Warriors in the sold out Guinness PRO12 play-off semi-final tomorrow evening at the Sportsground (Kick Off: 6.30pm – live on SKY Sports, TG4 and BBC Scotland). Galway man Eoin McKeon comes into the back row and …
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Connacht Rugby CEO Willie Ruane was in Dublin today to publicly launch the province’s Vision & Strategy document for 2016 – 2020. Picture Credit: ©INPHO/James Crombie Ruane was joined by Connacht’s head coach Pat Lam, academy manager Nigel Carolan and club & community manager Eric Elwood for the launch that took place at the Aviva …
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Roscommon’s Denis Buckley has been ruled out for the remainder of Connacht’s season after he underwent surgery this week on his ankle injury. It is expected that he will return to full training at the start of the pre-season in late June. There was some positive news for Connacht Head Coach Pat Lam as Rodney …
Bundee Aki was voted the Connacht Rugby Players’ Player of the Year by his fellow team mates at the annual Connacht Rugby Awards Gala in Galway last night. The charismatic centre has had a stand out season starting 26 of the 28 games played so far. His skill set, physicality, and work rate on and …
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Connacht duo Tiernan O’Halloran and Kieran Marmion will mark a 100th appearance each when they run out at the Sportsground for round 22 of the Guinness PRO12 against Glasgow Warriors tomorrow at 3pm. Marmion is one of nine personnel changes made by head coach Pat Lam for the sold out clash that will decide a …
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Earlier today Connacht Rugby announced the recruitment of fullback Cian Kelleher from Leinster on a two-year deal. The 21-year-old, who can also play on the wing and outside centre, has spent two seasons in the Leinster Academy and has seven PRO12 appearances under his belt scoring an impressive 60-metre try against Zebre in February of …
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Connacht Rugby has today unveiled the nominations for the annual end-of-season Awards Gala, taking place this year on the 7th of May at the Bailey Allen Hall, NUI Galway. 18 awards will be given out at the ceremony celebrating the year’s achievements at all levels of the game including underage, club, schools women’s and the …
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Kiltoom’s Jack Carty and Galway’s Tiernan O’Halloran both return from injury to start in a back line that also sees the introduction of wing Fionn Carr and scrum half John Cooney. Rory Parata is named to start in an Academy midfield partnership with Peter Robb. Overall Pat Lam has made 10 personnel changes to the …
