{"id":64728,"date":"2025-08-13T09:28:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T09:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/64728\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T09:28:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T09:28:07","slug":"wru-chief-abi-tierney-to-step-away-from-role-after-cancer-diagnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/64728\/","title":{"rendered":"WRU chief Abi Tierney to step away from role after cancer diagnosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Welsh Rugby Union chief executive Abi Tierney will step away from her role after being diagnosed with cancer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tierney will take time away from her duties from 22 August to undergo treatment, with no return date given.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This has not been an easy decision, but it is one I must make to focus fully on my health and recovery,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I am grateful for the support I have already received from my family, friends, and colleagues, and I am confident in the team&#8217;s ability to continue our work during my absence. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I kindly ask for understanding and privacy during this time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chair Richard Collier-Keywood will take temporary overall charge of the governing body.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welsh Rugby Union chief executive Abi Tierney will step away from her role after being diagnosed with cancer.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-64728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}