Ex-copper Dean Richards is back on the beat
The Newcastle coach has turned back the clock during virus outbreak that prematurely terminated the Championship season and left h…
Liam Heagney
14 Apr 2020, 4:41
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Liam Heagney
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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.
'I currently have no income and I'm stuck here… that's not an ideal scenario'
Pay cuts suffered by the likes of Itoje and other household names are nothing compared to players in the lower reaches such as Dan…
Liam Heagney
12 Apr 2020, 4:21
Ex-Springbok revisits Kamp Staaldraad nightmare: 'It was crazy... the soldiers even fired two bullets on the ground'
Nightmare preparations for the disastrous 2003 World Cup have never left the mind of one ex-Springbok who now lives in the wilds o…
Liam Heagney
10 Apr 2020, 11:40
Warren Gatland reveals the strangest request he has ever got from a player
The 2021 British and Irish Lions coach is currently working at the Super Rugby Chiefs after twelve years at the helm in Wales.
Liam Heagney
09 Apr 2020, 12:09
Jungle-living ex-Springbok van Niekerk outlines extraordinary view on recreational drugs in rugby
The 39-year-old, who earned the last of his 52 South African caps in 2010, finished his club career at Toulon in 2014 and has sinc…
Liam Heagney
09 Apr 2020, 9:36
RPA sets the record straight about alleged Premiership player strike
Union boss Damian Hopley admits that some players were distressed about pay cuts but he takes issue with some of the more dramatic…
Liam Heagney
08 Apr 2020, 10:49
Chabal and another ex-French international reveal respective battles with coronavirus
Two heroes from the 2010 French Grand Slam-winning squad have spoken about how they contracted the virus last month and have since…
Liam Heagney
07 Apr 2020, 9:04
'People are terrified' - New York rugby boss on life in the red zone and where now for the MLR
Rugby is currently off the menu for James Kennedy, the majority owner of Rugby United New York, but he believes it will be all the…
Liam Heagney
05 Apr 2020, 5:36
'It's no secret that USA Rugby have been financially f***** for years'
Last Monday's Chapter 11 bankruptcy declaration sent shockwaves around the rugby world, but one Major League Rugby board member is…
Liam Heagney
04 Apr 2020, 10:57
Less than a fortnight after threatening legal action, Ealing issue response to Newcastle's confirmed promotion
Rugby in England at all levels below the Premiership for the 2019/20 season was terminated on March 20, resulting in Trailfinders …
Liam Heagney
03 Apr 2020, 8:29
Sean O'Brien's gesture to Irish nurses working on the coronavirus front line
Ex-Wales midfielder Jamie Roberts earned kudos a few weeks ago by giving his flat in Cardiff up to the health service... now ex-I…
Liam Heagney
03 Apr 2020, 5:32
It's official: RFU won't bail out Premiership clubs
The 2019/20 top-flight season ground to halt last month and with no sign of a resumption happening any time soon, the clubs have i…
Liam Heagney
02 Apr 2020, 17:00
RFU boss reveals the breathtaking cuts made behind closed doors
The RFU's high ranking officials - including Eddie Jones - have taken pay cuts but the damage for English rugby's rank and file ha…
Liam Heagney
02 Apr 2020, 17:00
The emotional family price paid by Eddie Jones during the coronavirus pandemic
The England coach had a special trip planned for after the Six Nations but he had to revise his plans and instead hunker down in J…
Liam Heagney
02 Apr 2020, 17:00
The one rugby upside to the current coronavirus pandemic... leading Test unions are no longer at loggerheads
Less than a year since arguments scuppered World Rugby's Nations Championship plan, relations between leading Test unions both sid…
Liam Heagney
02 Apr 2020, 6:37
Jones: The world domination reasons why he decided to stick with England
The Australian has the highest win ratio - 78 per cent - in the history of England coaches, winning 42 of his 54 outings in charge…
Liam Heagney
02 Apr 2020, 5:34
RFU unveil formula that will decide who gets promoted from the Championship
Ealing Trailfinders director of rugby Ben Ward floated the possibility last month of a legal challenge if Newcastle were promoted …
Liam Heagney
02 Apr 2020, 4:26
Eddie Jones agrees England contract extension
After stating at the start of the 2020 Guinness Six Nations that the players would tell him whether he should continue or not, th…
Liam Heagney
02 Apr 2020, 3:59
Bastareaud is heading back to the Top 14 on a two-year deal
The French veteran's recruitment by Rugby United New York made headlines around the rugby world when he agreed to move to America …
Liam Heagney
01 Apr 2020, 7:56
'You have players asking, what is my salary going to be next season? You can't give a definitive answer'
Life as a rugby agent in the pandemic... Niall Woods has one client waiting for a Covid-19 test, a couple of others previously sic…
Liam Heagney
31 Mar 2020, 13:34
