{"id":107847,"date":"2025-10-08T03:13:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T03:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/107847\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T03:13:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T03:13:10","slug":"irfu-and-other-leading-rugby-unions-to-make-players-ineligible-for-international-selection-if-they-join-r360-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/107847\/","title":{"rendered":"IRFU and other leading rugby unions to make players ineligible for international selection if they join R360 league"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Rebel league responds to joint statement from Tier One nations as war of words escalates\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A general view of the pitches in the IRFU High Performance Centre at the Sport Ireland Campus in Dublin\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2089754.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">A general view of the pitches in the IRFU High Performance Centre at the Sport Ireland Campus in Dublin<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The IRFU have confirmed that they will be informing their players that if they decide to join the rebel R360 league, they will be ineligible for international selection.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The latest development follows last week\u2019s Irish Independent story, and now the tier one nations have come together to publicly outline their concerns surrounding the proposed breakaway competition, which is being fronted by ex-England international Mike Tindall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rebel league responds to joint statement from Tier One nations as war of words escalates A general view&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[39921,18,19,67397,17,34991,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-107847","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-cian-tracey","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-international-rugby","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-irish-rugby-football-union-irfu","14":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}