John is from Tipperary town man and has been living in Limerick since 2000. He enjoys all sports especially hurling, tennis and golf. A former Munster senior, junior, Ireland ‘A’ and Ireland Sevens player, John also played for Shannon RFC and won five All-Ireland League medals and eight Munster Senior Cup titles during a successful career.<\/p>\n
John took up refereeing when he retired from playing and is now a respected official on the international circuit, taking charge of some of the top games in world rugby. When did you join Munster? I joined IRFU as a Rugby Development Officer in 1999 based in Munster. What do you do? Player and coach development at all levels, I’m also responsible for Munster Schools Development squads……………… see more at :- http:\/\/www.independent.ie\/sport\/rugby\/munster-rugby\/my-job-in-munster-john-lacey-coach-development-officer-30705517.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" John is from Tipperary town man and has been living in Limerick since 2000. He enjoys all sports especially hurling, tennis and golf. A former Munster senior, junior, Ireland ‘A’ and Ireland Sevens player, John also played for Shannon RFC and won five All-Ireland League medals and eight Munster Senior Cup titles during a successful […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4592,5776,6159,15238,2222,4419],"class_list":["post-75299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ulster-rugby","tag-coach","tag-development","tag-john","tag-lacey","tag-munster","tag-referee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75299","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=75299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75301,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75299\/revisions\/75301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}