{"id":576640,"date":"2026-07-31T05:31:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T05:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/576640\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T05:31:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T05:31:14","slug":"scottish-rugby-ceo-williamson-sacked-after-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/576640\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottish Rugby CEO Williamson sacked after investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scottish Rugby chief executive \u200cAlex Williamson has been sacked after an \u200cindependent investigation into his conduct, the national \u200bbody&#8217;s chair John McGuigan said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Williamson, who took charge in January 2025, \u200bwas put on leave in May.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe \u2060board of Scottish Rugby has today \u200cdismissed \u200cAlex \u200bWilliamson from his position as chief executive with \u2060immediate effect,&#8221; \u200bMcGuigan said in \u200ba statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;His dismissal follows the \u200cconclusion of an independent \u200binvestigation into matters that were \u2060brought to the \u2060board\u2019s \u200battention earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In light of the investigation findings the board of Scottish Rugby concluded that the CEO\u2019s conduct had fallen significantly below \u200cthe standards \u2060we set as an organisation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Media reports said David White, the \u200cchief financial officer of Scottish Rugby, \u200bwill become the interim CEO. &#8211; Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scottish Rugby chief executive \u200cAlex Williamson has been sacked after an \u200cindependent investigation into his conduct, the national&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":576641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-576640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576640","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=576640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}