Ireland rugby jersey history, 1987-2017
New Ireland rugby shirts have become an annual event, with the kit for the coming season launched on Friday. Go to the IRFU website for the marketing spiel, or go… Read more »
Category: Not Football
Three stripes and you’re out!
This article first appeared in the Evening Echo on August 2, 2017 Nowadays, the Cork GAA kit, like so many others, features three stripes down the sleeves and on the shorts. From time… Read more »
Rugby: the world in union, 1986
One of the books we received for Christmas was the autobiography of former Ireland rugby union team captain Donal Lenihan, My Life in Rugby. Lenihan’s career as a player and… Read more »
Umbro’s first-ever Ireland alternate rugby jersey, 1992
Today – September 28 – Leinster Rugby revealed their new European kit, harking back to classic Canterbury designs of the early 2000s. A classic. Remastered. The new Leinster European jersey… Read more »
Books review – Roma and Samporia kits, cycling jerseys
We love books and we love kits. Unlike Eoin McLove’s jumper-cake, these two things do go together and we really love books about kits. Three recent purchases come under the… Read more »