Connacht Rugby
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Connacht Rugby is one of the four professional provincial rugby teams from the island of Ireland. Connacht competes in the United Rugby Championship and the European Rugby Champions Cup. The team represents the IRFU Connacht Branch, which is one of four primary branches of the IRFU, and is responsible for rugby union throughout the geographical Irish province of Connacht.
2006–07 European Challenge Cup tie between Bath and Connacht
Lineout against Toulouse in their 2011–12 Heineken Cup group stage match at Stade Ernest-Wallon
Connacht playing in green against Toulouse in the 2011–12 Heineken Cup
Irish Rugby Football Union
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The Irish Rugby Football Union (IRFU) is the body managing rugby union in the island of Ireland. The IRFU has its head office at 10/12 Lansdowne Road and home ground at Aviva Stadium, where adult men's Irish rugby union international matches are played. In addition, the Union also owns the Ravenhill Stadium in Belfast, Thomond Park in Limerick and a number of grounds in provincial areas that have been rented to clubs.
The 1887 Ireland side sporting the 5 sprig shamrock
Louis Magee and the four-sprig shamrock on his chest, as depicted in an Ogden's cigarette card