{"id":83990,"date":"2025-09-25T02:56:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T02:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/83990\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T02:56:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T02:56:12","slug":"cian-tracey-which-province-look-to-have-had-the-best-summer-recruitment-policy-heres-our-top-10-signings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/83990\/","title":{"rendered":"Cian Tracey: Which province look to have had the best summer recruitment policy \u2013 here\u2019s our top 10 signings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The top 10 signings made by the Irish provinces as the new season gets under way\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/97fe56f0-9b6e-42b2-ab6c-0bcfdff50ab5.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)\">The top 10 signings made by the Irish provinces as the new season gets under way<\/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)\">As the new rugby season begins, some provinces have been busier than others in terms of signing fresh faces to bolster their squad for the long road ahead.<\/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)\">Leaving aside players promoted from academies, Munster\u2019s five signings are the most of any Irish team, with Ulster just behind them, having made four additions. Leinster and Connacht, meanwhile, have only signed one player each, both of whom are from New Zealand. Here we rank Irish rugby\u2019s top 10 signings for the 2025\/26 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The top 10 signings made by the Irish provinces as the new season gets under way As the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[39921,23199,18,19,17,12861,12311,132,23200],"class_list":{"0":"post-83990","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-cian-tracey","9":"tag-connacht-rugby","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-leinster-rugby","14":"tag-munster-rugby","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-ulster-rugby"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83990","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=83990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}