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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.

'Owen Franks missing the World Cup... that highlighted how the game has grown, where you don't have any passengers'

It's eight years since John Afoa helped New Zealand win the World Cup and while his career is thriving at Bristol, he feels prop p…

Liam Heagney
Liam Heagney
13 Sep 2019, 14:52

Wednesday's English Premiership launch was like an Irish coaching reunion

Eighteen days after the Ireland national team was crushed at Twickenham by England, the influence that Irish coaching has on the P…

Liam Heagney
Liam Heagney
12 Sep 2019, 9:30

'I would have had to turn water into wine to really sway Eddie Jones'

RugbyPass was at the Gallagher Premiership launch in London where Danny Cipriani candidly peeled back the layers on his England Wo…

Liam Heagney
Liam Heagney
11 Sep 2019, 17:15

Thirty days after his England World Cup exclusion, Mike Brown talks Treviso, Te'o and Eddie Jones

Veteran Mike Brown may have celebrated his 34th birthday last week but he insists he is still the best full-back in England and wi…

Liam Heagney
Liam Heagney
11 Sep 2019, 11:23

'I'd people telling me about Naholo and I was, Nah, surely not? Then it gets announced and you're like, Wow, it was true'

Blair Cowan has only seen London Irish win 21 of 88 Premiership games in his four top-flight seasons... now with a stellar cast of…

Liam Heagney
Liam Heagney
10 Sep 2019, 13:25

London Irish opt not to stoke controversy in Ireland with Paddy Jackson

London Irish's signing of Paddy Jackson hasn't been without controversy and the club have now decided not to bring their out-half …

Liam Heagney
Liam Heagney
10 Sep 2019, 7:22

'It has that wonderful air of unpredictability' - Dallaglio on RWC, England's revival and fighting for kids excluded from mainstream education

Life after rugby has been good for Lawrence Dallaglio, but the sport is still at the heart of his existence, be it TV punditry, co…

Liam Heagney
Liam Heagney
08 Sep 2019, 3:40

Standing ovation as Schmidt signs off from Dublin with eye-watering home fortress statistics

A Joe Schmidt home game in Dublin has become quite the occasion for Irish rugby fans and he has signed off from his adopted home w…

Liam Heagney
Liam Heagney
07 Sep 2019, 13:22

Ireland player ratings vs Wales

Ireland were on the canvas when beaten by England a fortnight ago but they have bounced back with two wins over Wales, this latest…

Liam Heagney
Liam Heagney
07 Sep 2019, 11:55

'If you think suddenly for one moment this is normal, give yourself a little slap of reality'

After spending his entire professional career playing in the Championship, Harlequins' Toby Freeman is gunning to make a Premiersh…

Liam Heagney
Liam Heagney
07 Sep 2019, 5:55

Ireland make 12 changes to their team to face Wales

Having beaten a second-string Wales in Cardiff last weekend, Joe Schmidt has rung the changes for Ireland ahead of their rematch w…

Liam Heagney
Liam Heagney
05 Sep 2019, 9:00

'It's not the lowest point because you're representing your country at a World Cup' - Tom Wood on England 2015, Lewis Ludlum and his born-again Saints

Lewis Ludlam fast-track emergence was a reminder to Tom Wood that rugby is becoming a young man's sport, but the 32-year-old belie…

Liam Heagney
Liam Heagney
01 Sep 2019, 10:02

'How they seem to be playing down the importance of the backstop is just incredulous...' - Brian O'Driscoll on Brexit fears, Ireland's form and Japan hosting RWC

Brian O'Driscoll is a 40-year-old with recollections of police checks and border controls dividing the island of Ireland and he fe…

Liam Heagney
Liam Heagney
01 Sep 2019, 3:05

Ireland player ratings vs Wales

Humiliated in London the previous weekend, a middle strength Ireland XV regained some lost ground by deservedly getting the better…

Liam Heagney
Liam Heagney
31 Aug 2019, 13:11

'I'm not really disappointed... I'm positive' - Taqele Naiyaravoro on RWC misfortune, his Fijian heritage and life at Northampton

Taqele Naiyaravoro isn't wasting time dwelling on missing out on another World Cup, his focus instead being on a new Premiership s…

Liam Heagney
Liam Heagney
30 Aug 2019, 12:29

Another week, another law tweak by World Rugby

With their biggest ever World Cup on the horizon, World Rugby is tweaking laws in the run-up and its latest change concerns the us…

Liam Heagney
Liam Heagney
30 Aug 2019, 11:10

Springbok Aphiwe Dyantyi insisted he hasn't cheated... but B sample result hasn't backed him up

Aphiwe Dyantyi protested his innocence last weekend when a urine sample tested positive, but his hopes that a B sample would exone…

Liam Heagney
Liam Heagney
30 Aug 2019, 9:05

'There is a large element of fear involved...' - James Haskell on his switch from rugby to MMA

Rocky and Mike Tyson were among the names dropped into the mix by James Haskell during his first MMA media conference, but he also…

Liam Heagney
Liam Heagney
30 Aug 2019, 8:20

Heaslip keeping the faith: 'This team since the last World Cup is probably the best Irish squad ever assembled'

Jamie Heaslip is heading to Japan in October and while numerous fans are concerned with the form of Joe Schmidt's squad, the forme…

Liam Heagney
Liam Heagney
29 Aug 2019, 13:59

Ireland make 11 changes to their team to face Wales

Trounced by England at Twickenham last Saturday, Joe Schmidt has taken action ahead of Ireland's trip to Wales by making 11 change…

Liam Heagney
Liam Heagney
29 Aug 2019, 8:57
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