Rugby-All Blacks centre Ioane to join Leinster next season


  • Rugby
  • Wednesday, 16 Apr 2025

FILE PHOTO: New Zealand's Rieko Ioane during training, Multipurpose Ground, Beppu, Japan, October 1, 2019. REUTERS/Peter Cziborra/File Photo

(Reuters) - All Blacks centre Reiko Ioane will join the Irish rugby union club Leinster next season on a sabbatical break.

The 28-year-old had a sabbatical clause in his contract which allows him to skip one Super Rugby Pacific season with the Blues and spend six months abroad.

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