The Irish Rugby Football Union has confirmed that Irish clubs could play in the Premiership Women’s Rugby in the future.<\/p>\n
The PWR, currently restricted to English clubs, opened an expression of interest process in April for organisations who might join the nine-team competition if it expanded. <\/p>\n
The closing date for clubs around the UK and Republic of Ireland to submit their expressions of interest was 30 April. <\/p>\n
Currently, Munster, Connacht, Leinster and Ulster play in an Interpro league, while Clovers and Irish Wolfhounds represent Ireland in the Celtic Challenge alongside clubs from Scotland and Wales.<\/p>\n
In the most recent Celtic Challenge, Wolfhounds retained their crown for a third year in a row after a 50-29 win over Clovers.<\/p>\n
There are 11 players in the Ireland Six Nations squad who play in the PWR, including four who play for reigning Champions Gloucester-Hartpury.<\/p>\n
“The IRFU has noted the update from Premi\u00ader\u00adship Women’s Rugby (PWR) regard\u00ading the open\u00ading of expres\u00adsions of interest for future sea\u00adsons. It’s pos\u00adit\u00adive to see new ideas and oppor\u00adtun\u00adit\u00adies emer\u00adging that sup\u00adport the con\u00adtin\u00adued growth of the women’s game,” IRFU head of women’s strategy Lynne Can\u00adt\u00adwell said.<\/p>\n
“The IRFU has expressed its interest in the PWR pro\u00adcess and looks for\u00adward to explor\u00ading the poten\u00adtial oppor\u00adtun\u00adity fur\u00adther that could enable us to grow the game. <\/p>\n
“Any developments will be care\u00adfully con\u00adsidered within the con\u00adtext of the whole game and what best sup\u00adports long-term growth for our clubs and provinces. <\/p>\n
“Our focus remains on build\u00ading a strong, sus\u00adtain\u00adable future for women’s rugby across the island.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Irish Rugby Football Union has confirmed that Irish clubs could play in the Premiership Women’s Rugby in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":658142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-658141","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\/658141","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=658141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}