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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.

The true extent of England players' workload this season compared to Ireland's laid bare

Last weekend provided the latest compelling evidence that Ireland’s IRFU-contracted stars have it much easier than their club-co…

Liam Heagney
Liam Heagney
06 Dec 2018, 6:02

The inherent risk of Andy Farrell

Andy Farrell will be hoping hipster beards don’t go out of fashion in Irish rugby as quickly as they have in Irish football. …

Liam Heagney
Liam Heagney
29 Nov 2018, 12:31

Fiji need more matches against Tier 1 sides if their story is to change

French riot police were busy in Paris on Saturday. National symbols such as Arc de Triomphe and Champs-Élysées needed protecting…

Liam Heagney
Liam Heagney
26 Nov 2018, 14:02

Paddy Jackson's move to France could be about to pay off big style - reports

Paddy Jackson’s career-saving move to France is quickly set to pay off. The sacked Ireland international is reportedly poise…

Liam Heagney
Liam Heagney
26 Nov 2018, 12:32

The warning from history this Ireland side can't ignore going into a World Cup year

Joe Schmidt’s hint that he just might be leaving Ireland at the end of the 2019 World Cup wasn’t the only post-match quip to c…

Liam Heagney
Liam Heagney
25 Nov 2018, 12:59

'It wasn’t unusual for someone to roll down the window and flick the finger at you and laugh'

Watch out world. Whether or not the in-demand Joe Schmidt hangs around in Ireland following the 2019 World Cup, the IRFU don’t p…

Liam Heagney
Liam Heagney
22 Nov 2018, 12:54

Thirteen years after he endured an All Black hammering on debut, Rory Best has given his detractors the proverbial fingers

Saturday night in Dublin was supposed to demonstrate how Test rugby is no country for old men. Rory Best was apparently over t…

Liam Heagney
Liam Heagney
18 Nov 2018, 14:16

After 26 different combinations, this is Ireland's last area of positional uncertainty under Schmidt

There was no visible pre-match panic at Lansdowne Road last Saturday when Ireland were forced to rejig their team selection at the…

Liam Heagney
Liam Heagney
14 Nov 2018, 14:40

How Ireland and not the All Blacks dominate one of the game's most fiercely contested battlegrounds - discipline

Joe Schmidt will have flown out of Chicago on Sunday satisfied that Ireland have potentially remedied a worrying black mark. Re…

Liam Heagney
Liam Heagney
07 Nov 2018, 12:04

'Good players take bad passes... I remember the whole room going quiet because I said it to Drico'

It’s five-and-a-half years since Joe Schmidt, rushing towards a door to be on time for a Leinster team captain’s run, momentar…

Liam Heagney
Liam Heagney
28 Oct 2018, 7:34

The eight players left on Irish Rugby's 'central contract' hit list and how the IRFU plan to pay for them

It’s one down, eight more to go for the IRFU following Conor Murray’s recent announcement that he will continue to play his ru…

Liam Heagney
Liam Heagney
21 Oct 2018, 6:02

Simon Zebo has become impossible for Schmidt to ignore

Simon Zebo fired a rare blank on Saturday, the smiling assassin unable to add to his grand tally of six tries so far this season f…

Liam Heagney
Liam Heagney
14 Oct 2018, 4:14

After a six month lay off and over 20 operations, can Sean O'Brien still be trusted to be Ireland's missing link?

Joe Schmidt will wear a broad smile when he addresses the Irish Business Network breakfast in Dubai on Monday morning on the subje…

Liam Heagney
Liam Heagney
07 Oct 2018, 6:59

The keys to Leinster's success and why the rest of Europe should be worried

As soon as Leo Cullen walks in the Aviva Stadium door next Wednesday morning for the new season’s Champions Cup launch, the “D…

Liam Heagney
Liam Heagney
23 Sep 2018, 6:31

How Andy Farrell's defensive system has become the elephant in Ireland's World Cup room

Saturday’s earthquake result in Wellington is a sudden red flag for fancied Ireland a year out from the 2019 World Cup finals.

Liam Heagney
Liam Heagney
16 Sep 2018, 5:31
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