Who represents the body managing rugby union in the island of Ireland?
Andrew Brace
Andrew Brace
Andrew Brace, or "Andy Brace", (born 15 June 1988 in Cardiff, Wales) is a Welsh-born Belgian national rugby union player, now referee, who represents the Irish Rugby Football Union.
Irish Rugby Football Union
The Irish Rugby Football Union (IRFU) (Irish: "Cumann Rugbaí na hÉireann" ) is the body managing rugby union in the island of Ireland (both Republic of Ireland and Northern 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 Ravenhill in Belfast, Thomond Park in Limerick and a number of grounds in provincial areas that have been rented to clubs.
Tampa Bay Krewe
The Tampa Bay Krewe, or Krewe Rugby, are a rugby union team based in the Tampa Bay Area of Florida.
 They are members of the Florida Rugby Union, the organizational body for rugby union in Florida, and Division II side in USA Rugby, plus a youth side and a social side.
 Krewe Rugby was founded in 1991 by ten Tampa Bay area professionals who had previously been members of different novice to semi-professional level rugby union teams.
 The Krewe plays other Division- II Rugby Clubs from cities across Florida, including Jacksonville, Orlando, Naples, Boca Raton, Fort Lauderdale, and Miami. Estonian Rugby Union
The Estonian Rugby Union (Estonian: "Eesti Ragbi Liit" ) is the governing body of Rugby Union in Estonia and was formed in 2007 in response to FIRA-AER expulsion of the Estonian Rugby Federation.
 In June 2009 the Estonian Rugby Union formally received recognition as the governing body of Rugby Union in Estonia from the Estonian Olympic Committee with permission to represent Estonia at international level. Danish Rugby Union
The Danish Rugby Union (DRU) (Danish: "Dansk Rugby Union" ) is the governing body for rugby union in Denmark.
 Rugby began being played in Denmark in 1931 but it was not until 1950 that the DRU was established.
 In 1971 the DRU joined FIRA - Association of European Rugby followed by the Skandinavisk Rugby Union in 1974 before finally joining the International Rugby Board in 1988. Rugby Union of Russia
Rugby Union of Russia (Russian: Союз регбистов России ) is the governing body for rugby union in Russia.
 It was founded in 1936 originally as the Rugby Union of the Soviet Union.
 The Rugby Union of Russia became affiliated to World Rugby (previously known as the International Rugby Football Board, and still later as the International Rugby Board) in 1990. Georgia Rugby Union
The Georgian Rugby Union (GRU) (Georgian: საქართველოს რაგბის კავშირი) is the governing body for the sport of rugby union in the nation of Georgia.
 Founded in 1964, it was part of the Rugby Union of the Soviet Union until 1991, with the Independent Georgian Rugby Union being established on May 27, 1991.
 It organizes the Georgia Championship, Georgia Cup, the Georgia national rugby union team and the Georgia A national rugby union team.
 It became affiliated to World Rugby, then known as the International Rugby Football Board, in 1992.
 It is based in Tbilisi. Turks and Caicos Islands Rugby Football Union
The Turks and Caicos Islands Rugby Football Union, or TCIRFU, is the body managing rugby union in the Turks and Caicos Islands.
 The TCIRFU has its head office and grounds on Providenciales, where Turks and Caicos rugby union international matches are played.
 In addition the Union also trains on Grace Bay beach on Providenciales. Rugby Canada
Rugby Canada is the national governing body for the sport of rugby union in Canada.
 Rugby Canada was incorporated in 1974, and stems from the Canadian Rugby Football Union, a body established in 1884 that now governs amateur Canadian football as Football Canada; and the now-defunct Rugby Union of Canada, established in 1929.
 Rugby Canada administers the Canada national rugby union team and sanctions the Rugby Canada National Junior Championship, a national competition for under-20 men's teams.
 It previously sanctioned the Super League as the premier level of men's competition in the country, but scrapped that league after the Americas Rugby Championship was created in 2009 as a two-stage competition in which the first involved only Canadian teams. History of rugby union
The history of rugby union follows from various football games played long before the 19th century, but it was not until the middle of that century that the rules were formulated and codified.
 The code of football later known as rugby union can be traced to three events: the first set of written rules in 1845, the Blackheath Club's decision to leave the Football Association in 1863 and the formation of the Rugby Football Union in 1871.
 The code was originally known simply as "rugby football".
 It was not until a schism in 1895, over the payment of players, which resulted in the formation of the separate code of rugby league, that the name "rugby union" was used to differentiate the original rugby code.
 For most of its history, rugby was a strictly amateur football code, and the sport's administrators frequently imposed bans and restrictions on players who they viewed as professional.
 It was not until 1995 that rugby union was declared an "open" game, and thus professionalism was sanctioned by the code's governing body, World Rugby — then known as the International Rugby Football Board (IRFB).