Leinster lock Charlie Ryan was forced to retire from rugby at the age of just 23 due to injury.

Osbourne was due to play the 3Arena in Dublin on 10 June, as well as gigs in the UK and Europe.

Niall Saunders retired from professional rugby at the age of 22 and is better for it.

A selection of long-serving stars retired this year.

Claire Molloy has been inducted into the Guinness Rugby Writers of Ireland Hall of Fame.

‘A tear was shed, but luckily I have no regrets,’ he said in a statement.

Galway great Joe Canning confirmed his retirement from inter-county hurling on a media call today.

Ex-Munster fullback Sean Scanlon has retired from professional rugby after seven seasons in the Championship.

She complained about the designation in a social media post.

As he reflects on his career, Rory Best takes pride from squeezing every drop out of the potential he had.

Patricia O’Connor was Kieran Greene’s partner’s mother.

Leinster’s Jack Conan was sad to see his former team-mate forced to hang up his boots.

Tony Smeeth tells The42 about the free-wheeling, big-carrying, ball-playing Jamie Heaslip he coached for four years in Trinity.

‘People say, ‘Jeepers, Jamie was lucky there.’ Not according to Jamie, not according to us.’

The 34-year-old confirmed his retirement from the game after a superb career.

“This is the right time to do it,” the 35-year-old said.

Henry “Harry” O’Keeffe was on duty when the city came under aerial attack in WW2.

Gavin O’Mahony’s days in the Limerick jersey are over.

199 former staff shared in the redundancy payouts, with eight ex-employees receiving packages worth more than €100,000 apiece.

The 35-year-old has been forced to retire with immediate effect.

The Frenchman also wants to spend his free time working as a pundit and developing his clothing range.

The likes of Darran O’Sullivan, Paul Galvin, Bernard Brogan, Sean Cavanagh and Michael Fennelly have been praising the former Kingdom defender after today’s news.

The garda said his injuries had affected his daily activities and he had not been able to go fly fishing for a year.

Adrian Coxson has decided to call it a day before even playing a single snap.

It was a simpler time.

Analysis: The departure of the Garda Commissioner remains shrouded in controversy.

Steve Walsh’s many fans will be disappointed.

The 32-year-old felt he couldn’t give the required commitment to the inter-county scene this year.

Former Leinster and Connacht scrum-half Paul O’Donohoe is trying to make the best of retirement.

It’s almost enough to fill a squad for the greatest charity match ever.

It sounds like they’re all having the craic together.

The service, which had 330 million members worldwide at its peak, will be retired and integrated into Skype.

It’s a brutal game and the provinces were severely weakened by the early departure of these five players.

The retired rugby legend says he will miss the Leinster supporters and the training ground camaraderie.

The Australian told us about his the finest four years of his rugby career and his most cherished winners’ medal.

Ulster’s all-time appearance record holder has played just once in the past 15 months.

The South African born forward played with Ireland Wolfhounds and toured to New Zealand with the senior squad in 2012.