Former Ireland and Ulster fly-half David Humphreys is appointed as the Irish Rugby Football Union's new performance director.
Former Ireland and Ulster fly-half David Humphreys has been appointed as the Irish Rugby Football Union's new performance director.
"This role is the fulfilment of a lifelong ambition and I look forward to building on the successful systems put in place by David Nucifora, who has been a driving force behind Irish Rugby for ten years."After retiring in 2008, he served as Ulster's director of rugby and spent six years in a similar position at Gloucester.
Nucifora will oversee final preparations for the Sevens teams' Paris Olympics campaigns next summer while Humphreys takes up his new role on 1 June. "I would like to thank David Nucifora for the outstanding contribution he has made in building our high performance unit over almost a decade and wish him every success in his future endeavours," said Potts.
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