{"id":433402,"date":"2026-05-05T13:13:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T13:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/433402\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T13:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T13:13:08","slug":"hugo-keenan-signs-two-year-extension-with-leinster-and-ireland-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/433402\/","title":{"rendered":"Hugo Keenan signs two-year extension with Leinster and Ireland \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ireland <\/a>and Leinster <\/a>fullback Hugo Keenan<\/a> has signed a two-year contract extension with the Irish Rugby Football Union (IRFU) and Leinster Rugby, which will keep him in Dublin until the end of the 2027\/28 season. <\/p>\n

Keenan has been capped 46 times by Ireland since making his international debut in October 2020. He played a key role in Ireland\u2019s Grand Slam winning squad in 2023, a Six Nations Championship in 2024 and three Triple Crowns. <\/p>\n

The 29-year-old was also part of Ireland\u2019s 2023 Rugby World Cup squad and played in Andy Farrell\u2019s British and Irish Lions last summer, when he scored the series-winning try in the last minute of the second Test in the MCG against Australia. <\/p>\n

Keenan also represented Ireland at Under-20 and Sevens levels and competed at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. <\/p>\n

\u201cHugo is a top-class performer and I am really pleased that he is continuing his journey in Ireland,\u201d said Farrell. <\/p>\n

\u201cHe has been a model of consistency since his debut in 2020 and I believe that the best is yet to come as he continues to set the highest standards on and off the field of play.\u201d<\/p>\n

In another signing loosehead prop Jerry Cahir will move from Leinster to Connacht ahead of the 2026\/27 season.<\/p>\n

The 25-year-old joined Leinster on a short-term deal last September and has become a mainstay in their matchday 23, making 14 appearances including four starts. Cahir\u2019s most recent input was last weekend when he came off the bench in Leinster\u2019s Champions\u2019 Cup semi-final win over Toulon in Aviva Stadium.<\/p>\n

Cahir represented Connacht at underage level, lining out for the Under-19s in 2018, and was named Lansdowne\u2019s Player of the Year last season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland and Leinster fullback Hugo Keenan has signed a two-year contract extension with the Irish Rugby Football Union…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[21455,61,60,1449,11287,43],"class_list":["post-433402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-hugo-keenan","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-ireland-rugby","tag-leinster-rugby","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}