Brett Gosper
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Joe Schmidt named World Rugby’s high performance director
- Rugby
- October 8, 2020, 13:02
World Rugby’s appointment of Joe Schmidt as their newly created “director of rugby and high performance” provides the ultimate example of poacher turn(...)

Rugby in a pandemic: Welcome to the season from the edge of oblivion
- Rugby
- October 3, 2020, 06:00
That Micheál Martin and pals are the first generation of anti-Treatyites to let builders demolish The O’Rahilly’s house would not have been lost on th(...)

Australia in pole position to secure 2027 Rugby World Cup
- Rugby
- August 13, 2020, 15:43
Australia have received another boost in their bid to host the 2027 Rugby World Cup, with World Rugby set to announce the next two men’s and women’s t(...)

Pro 14 chief Anayi ‘really confident’ that season will finish
- Rugby
- April 16, 2020, 06:00
Guinness Pro14 chief executive Martin Anayi remains optimistic that a finale of sorts to the 2019-20 campaign can still be salvaged from the damage ca(...)

Philip Browne: ‘The key is to get the high-value matches played’
- International
- April 10, 2020, 19:08
Salvaging as much as possible from the international calendar in 2020 remains the priority of World Rugby and the CEOs of the Tier One nations. Accord(...)

Matt Williams: All Blacks about to blow Ireland’s house down
- International
- October 18, 2019, 13:00
President John F Kennedy famously said “the time to fix the roof is when the sun is shining.” In other words, when you know an approaching event will (...)

Women’s rugby ‘revolution’ promised at Dublin event
- Rugby
- May 21, 2019, 20:30
Leading figures in global rugby – from Bernard Laporte to Raelene Castle – lunched at the Irish Georgian Society’s home on South William Street i(...)

Gordon D’Arcy: Absence of a proper global calendar the root of world rugby’s problems
- International
- March 6, 2019, 06:00
The system, quite clearly, is broken. What’s blindingly obvious is the need to establish a global calendar before any World League and lucrative broa(...)

Bill Beaumont to convene Dublin meeting on World Rugby League
- International
- March 4, 2019, 14:46
World Rugby chairman Bill Beaumont will convene a meeting in Dublin later this month in a bid to discuss proposals for a World Rugby League that has d(...)

The Offload: Brett Gosper must be held to account for what he says
- Rugby
- March 4, 2019, 12:36
Hold Goschot to account This time, Brett Gosper must be held to account for what he says. In May 2016 the chief executive emerged from a World Rugby (...)