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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.

'In the Championship if you make a mistake you might lose 50, 60 yards, whereas in the Premiership you can make a mistake and it's either three, five or seven points'

South African Franco van der Merwe is one of many different cultures blending together as one to ensure that London Irish's latest…

Liam Heagney
Liam Heagney
22 Dec 2019, 4:29

'I'm pretty average' - Piutau on Fortnite, Bristol Bears and online comments

There are far greater traumas than Bristol losing heavily at Saracens... Charles Piutau and his brother Siale know this more than …

Liam Heagney
Liam Heagney
22 Dec 2019, 4:05

Eleven months after the Zebo affair, Ulster have now banned a second fan after incident versus Harlequins

The Irish province didn't hang about when investigating unwanted fan behaviour last January and they have acted swiftly again foll…

Liam Heagney
Liam Heagney
18 Dec 2019, 7:50

How Connacht's 140-second Hail Mary play produced the ultimate team try to flatten Gloucester

The clock was on 78:13 in Galway when Gloucester kicked a restart kick deep into opposition territory... 19 phases later they were…

Liam Heagney
Liam Heagney
14 Dec 2019, 13:03

'Two teams is certainly one too few for Scotland, I'd love to see a third' - Gavin Hastings' radical idea

The former Scottish full-back on the need to revisit the 2007 Borders disbandment decision, his pride watching son Adam and the f…

Liam Heagney
Liam Heagney
14 Dec 2019, 4:19

Nakarawa has cleared out his locker at Racing and decided his short-term future - reports

The world of rugby was shaken up last Friday when the Parisians decided to terminate the contract of the 2018 European player of t…

Liam Heagney
Liam Heagney
12 Dec 2019, 15:00

Kyle Sinckler has just been handed a responsibility few believed could ever happen ten months ago

The England and Harlequins tighthead has often been described as a hothead, with Warren Gatland and Andy Goode among his queue of …

Liam Heagney
Liam Heagney
12 Dec 2019, 7:43

Just four champion Springboks gain selection in prestigious magazine's 2019 World XV... the same number as England

South Africa outplayed England in last month's World Cup final in Yokohama but the champions only break even with the beaten final…

Liam Heagney
Liam Heagney
10 Dec 2019, 7:57

Departing Toulon owner Mourad Boudjellal on his favourite ever signing and what he might do next in rugby

Love him or loathe him, the Mad Mourad era in charge at the French club was always entertaining... now he is leaving he is in a re…

Liam Heagney
Liam Heagney
10 Dec 2019, 5:40

'He has still got a lot to develop, still got a lot to learn and he knows that... but he is desperate to do that'

Dan McFarland was happy as a Scotland assistant but Ulster's approach won him over and he hasn't looked back in trying to help pla…

Liam Heagney
Liam Heagney
07 Dec 2019, 4:04

Enough to make grown men weep: Nine games, seven losses, six by five points or less, three by clock-in-the-red scores

Just last May Kieran Crowley was given the PRO14 coach of the year award... now he is trying to solve why Benetton are losing so m…

Liam Heagney
Liam Heagney
05 Dec 2019, 7:13

'It brings life into perspective and what really is important' - Ruan Pienaar's silver lining after tragic start to 2019

Life changed on February 15 for the former Springbok scrum-half, the tragic death of his sister setting in train a sequence of eve…

Liam Heagney
Liam Heagney
04 Dec 2019, 7:45

'It's easy for the fans not to bother' - Shane Williams' stark assessment of Welsh regional rugby

It's hard to believe in the current climate, but Shane Williams remembers a time when the Liberty Stadium used to rock and the reg…

Liam Heagney
Liam Heagney
01 Dec 2019, 3:09

'Really rash statement': Former Bok takes issue with doping culture allegations in SA rugby

The Springboks' recent World Cup win has been marred by some generalisations about an alleged doping culture in South African rugb…

Liam Heagney
Liam Heagney
28 Nov 2019, 10:41

Woodward the latest to back Guscott's popular law change suggestion

Rugby now fields starting XVs packed with players who are not prepared to play the full 80 minutes because they know they will be …

Liam Heagney
Liam Heagney
28 Nov 2019, 4:36

Clive Woodward on how disrespected he felt when he applied to become France coach

The 2003 World Cup winner with England had even enrolled in a French-language school in London only to find that the process to re…

Liam Heagney
Liam Heagney
26 Nov 2019, 9:18

Here's new Ireland boss Andy Farrell's form XV after two rounds of Champions Cup

With just ten weeks left before his first Six Nations outing in charge, Joe Schmidt's successor had 72 Ireland eligible players st…

Liam Heagney
Liam Heagney
24 Nov 2019, 4:17

Have the Irish finally stopped licking their bid wounds and identified a better strategy to host a World Cup?

After receiving just eight of the available 39 votes when bidding for the 2023 World Cup, the IRFU vowed never again but do commen…

Liam Heagney
Liam Heagney
23 Nov 2019, 7:09

Joe Schmidt reveals he asked for a recent Ireland World Cup match to be blown up early

With player safety of concern to the former Ireland coach, his new autobiography takes aim at the state of one World Cup pitch, Bu…

Liam Heagney
Liam Heagney
21 Nov 2019, 8:28

Will a European League ultimately be the cure to best finance clubs who are living hand to mouth?

With too many clubs in England and France reporting annual losses and remaining dependent on handouts from generous owners, might …

Liam Heagney
Liam Heagney
21 Nov 2019, 7:06
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