Student rugby union
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Student Rugby (a collegiate version of rugby union) is played throughout universities and institutes on the island of Ireland, it is also played throughout Britain. Unlike most university sports, collegiate club rugby is not administered by the National Collegiate Athletic Association or university athletic departments and is instead regulated by IRFU and club rec departments. Although 15s rugby is clearly stressed in the leagues, the 7s variants can be routinely seen. For all intents and purposes, student rugby represents this first level competitiveness in the relatively small irish system.
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The colleges division systems are structured as such that there are 2 separate divisions, these are then split up into 4 smaller divisions, to keep travel to a minimum for each team, eg. Division 2(north), Division 2(east). The top 2 teams from each of these sub-Divisions qualifies for an all-ireland cup to be promoted to Division 1 for the following season, the most recent of these was UUJ, who had tough opposition in their league, such as UUC and I.T Sligo R.F.C. Division 2 north is also the only cross border league in the competition, with colleges from both the republic of ireland and northern Ireland
