{"id":73035,"date":"2014-09-18T12:00:26","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T11:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/?p=73035"},"modified":"2014-09-18T12:00:26","modified_gmt":"2014-09-18T11:00:26","slug":"sexton-agreement-denis-obrien-confirms-irfus-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/sexton-agreement-denis-obrien-confirms-irfus-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"Sexton agreement with Denis O\u2019Brien confirms IRFU\u2019s strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"no_name\">Jonathan Sexton\u2019s commercial agreement with Denis O\u2019Brien, which played a significant role in bringing the Ireland outhalf back to <a class=\"search\" href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/search\/search-7.1213540?tag_organisation=Leinster&amp;article=true\">Leinster<\/a> next season, confirms the new IRFU strategy of keeping hold of their most precious commodities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"no_name\">Basically, the provinces can now top up central contracts with private funding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"no_name\">The first deal of this kind was brokered last January by Jamie Heaslip\u2019s agent, Damien O\u2019Donohoe of Ikon.This was allowed to avoid the loss of another marquee Irish player following Sexton signing for Racing Metro 92&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;. for the full story &gt;&gt;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/sport\/rugby\/european-cup\/sexton-agreement-with-denis-o-brien-confirms-irfu-s-strategy-1.1929917\">http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/sport\/rugby\/european-cup\/sexton-agreement-with-denis-o-brien-confirms-irfu-s-strategy-1.1929917<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Sexton\u2019s commercial agreement with Denis O\u2019Brien, which played a significant role in bringing the Ireland outhalf back to Leinster next season, confirms the new IRFU strategy of keeping hold of their most precious commodities. Basically, the provinces can now top up central contracts with private funding. The first deal of this kind was brokered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13972,7856,14945,11830,9109,14097],"class_list":["post-73035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irish-rugby","tag-agreement","tag-denis","tag-irfus","tag-obrien","tag-sexton","tag-strategy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73037,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73035\/revisions\/73037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}