Irish Rugby Football Union forces Springbok Ruan Pienaar out of the Irish domestic game
31 August 2016 - 17:33
Springbok scrumhalf Ruan Pienaar has been forced out of Irish rugby after his club Ulster were blocked from re-signing the veteran for another season under Ireland’s ‘succession policy’ rule. Ulster wanted to extend Pienaar’s stay beyond the 2016/17 season.That was not possible and so the current season will be Pienaar’s seventh and final campaign in Belfast.
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