Rugby Players Ireland has today announced that Gordon D'Arcy will join a host of iconic Irish rugby heroes in the Rugby Players Ireland Hall of Fame. D'Arcy joins former teammates from the 2009 Grand Slam winning campaign such as John Hayes (2012), David Wallace (2015) and Ronan O'Gara (2016), while his longstanding centre partner Brian O'Driscoll (2018) also counts amongst an illustrious list. D'Arcy's magnificent career will be celebrated at the Zurich Irish Rugby Players Rugby Awards which will be broadcast on Virgin Media Two at 7:30pm this Saturday. . Leinster Rugby's most capped player, over the course of 17 years in blue, D'Arcy played 257 times for his province, amassing three Heineken Cups, a Challenge Cup and four league titles. An Irish international at 19 having made his debut at the 1999 Rugby World Cup, he established himself on the international stage with a star turn in the Triple Crown triumph of 2004 - a seminal moment in Irish rugby history. D'Arcy would go on to play for his country on 82 occasions. His longevity and resilience was further proved by his role in Ireland's Six Nations triumph of 2014 as the Joe Schmidt era took hold. When D'Arcy retired the following year, he did so as Ireland's longest-serving player.
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