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Liam Heagney

A seasoned rugby journalist, Liam hails from Limerick and has covered World Cups, Lions tours, Six Nations Championships and European Cup campaigns since 2000. He became a content editor at RugbyPass in 2019 after joining from the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday in Ireland.

'If we go over the salary cap, come and point the gun at myself... not anyone else'

In the wake of the Saracens salary cap controversy, there is an increased focus on spending by Gallagher Premiership clubs, includ…

Liam Heagney
Liam Heagney
21 May 2020, 11:03

'It's bizarre, really bad management from a CEO perspective': Rugby Pod points finger of blame after Ackermann exit

Andy Goode and The Rugby Pod lift the lid on why Johan Ackermann allegedly reversed out of Gloucester last week for a job in Japan…

Liam Heagney
Liam Heagney
19 May 2020, 11:05

Carl Fearns is staying in France after agreeing Pro D2 deal with ex-England scrum-half

With his five-year stint over at Top 14 Lyon, ex-Bath back row Carl Fearns will hook up with former England scrum-half Richard Hil…

Liam Heagney
Liam Heagney
19 May 2020, 8:46

Allen Clarke makes very low-key return 140 days after his axing at Ospreys

Irishman Clarke was pushed out of his job at Ospreys on November 26 but it took until late December for the warring factions to ag…

Liam Heagney
Liam Heagney
19 May 2020, 8:02

Three successive promotions, a 94% win rate and a bizarre 0-0 draw: How liquidated London Welsh fought back from oblivion

Liquidated London Welsh were shattered by 2017's Championship expulsion, but Cai Griffiths is masterminding a phoenix-from-flames …

Liam Heagney
Liam Heagney
17 May 2020, 5:00

'That's not true': Murphy sacks Maro Itoje rumour but confirms that Leicester are signing a second row

Steve Borthwick’s impending arrival at Welford Road made the Maro Itoje signing rumours sound plausible, but Leicester have insi…

Liam Heagney
Liam Heagney
16 May 2020, 6:22

Premiership clubs lost a staggering £88.7million in the two years before CVC buy-in

The extensive salary cap report by Lord Myners accessed Companies House records to learn that a combined total of nearly £89milli…

Liam Heagney
Liam Heagney
15 May 2020, 9:55

One question still unanswered after 5-month investigation - which unnamed club breached Premiership salary cap in 2015

Full disclosure regarding what occurred in 2015 eluded Lord Myners in his 55-page report due to how cases against Saracens and a s…

Liam Heagney
Liam Heagney
14 May 2020, 8:18

Premiership's 24 best-paid players cost £14million in 2019/20... and not all were 'marquee'

The extensive 55-page Myners report has revealed the staggering collective remuneration of the 24 best-paid players for 2019/20 Ga…

Liam Heagney
Liam Heagney
14 May 2020, 6:43

Agustin Pichot quits World Rugby: 'I cannot conceive of occupying a place just for the sake of it'

Defeated Agustin Pichot secured 23 of the available 51 chairman election votes and he has now officially given up his World Rugby …

Liam Heagney
Liam Heagney
13 May 2020, 4:55

Maro Itoje linked with huge Premiership move... and Alex Goode is off as well - The Rugby Pod

One of Warren Gatland’s potential 2021 Lions captains, Maro Itoje has been touted for a temporary move away from relegated Sarac…

Liam Heagney
Liam Heagney
12 May 2020, 9:00

Umbro land Premiership club kit deal a week after snapping up England

The football-associated Umbro brand came in for much scrutiny last week when they secured a four-year deal replace Canterbury as t…

Liam Heagney
Liam Heagney
12 May 2020, 6:56

'I genuinely didn't give a f***. That's the attitude players are going to have'

Closed doors matches are ready to become rugby’s new norm, but they are not unprecedented as Tim Visser made history in 2010 whe…

Liam Heagney
Liam Heagney
10 May 2020, 3:24

The ex-Saracens scrum-half that left a 15-year-old Maro Itoje in awe

Maro Itoje has reacted to a tweet from Saracens reflecting on a May 2010 victory at Leicester which qualified them for what was th…

Liam Heagney
Liam Heagney
09 May 2020, 6:50

'I want to go to Japan and really showcase my attacking talent... it has been stifled at Bath'

Freddie Burns tells RugbyPass how anonymity at Bath and the coronavirus stoppage threatened to leave him without a job next season…

Liam Heagney
Liam Heagney
06 May 2020, 14:02

'What does a rugby player deserve? It's the wrong question… the whole cost base is out of whack'

Global Rapid Rugby boss Mark Evans takes no pleasure reiterating long-held concerns that pro rugby doesn’t financially add up, b…

Liam Heagney
Liam Heagney
03 May 2020, 5:28

The rugby nobody whose book is outselling Jones, Gatland and McCaw

Ben Mercer is shaking up the Amazon book charts with revelations about a nomadic career in the Championship shadows before a switc…

Liam Heagney
Liam Heagney
03 May 2020, 4:00

Scotland outcast Alex Dunbar among 10 players released from Top 14 Brive

The 2019/20 Top 14 season was terminated on Thursday, French officials finally admitting defeat in their quest to eventually resta…

Liam Heagney
Liam Heagney
02 May 2020, 13:33

'The media played out the club was in massive dispute or at civil war... it wasn't'

There were recent allegations that the across the board pay cuts at Leicester had sparked a revolt by a number of players, but Dan…

Liam Heagney
Liam Heagney
02 May 2020, 9:32

German officials cry foul on same day it's revealed World Rugby election result is being brought forward

The minnow European rugby nation have slammed a lack of consultation regarding an election where the announcement of the May 12 re…

Liam Heagney
Liam Heagney
01 May 2020, 15:16
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