James Peter Richard "Jamie" Heaslip (born 15 December 1983) is a Leinster & Irish rugby union player.

Heaslip was born in Tiberias, Israel, while his father, retired Brigadier General Richard Heaslip, was there on duty with UNIFIL.The youngest of four children, he has two brothers and a sister. He attended Newbridge College before starring at the 2004 U-21 World Cup in Scotland, where Ireland finished as runners-up to New Zealand. Following his performance, Heaslip was nominated for the IRB Under-21 World Player of the Year award..

Heaslip made his Leinster senior debut in the Celtic League in March 2005 where he has since gained 70 official senior games, scoring over 90 points, including 2 tries in the Heineken Cup. He was Ireland’s best player at the Churchill Cup in the summer of 2006^{[citation needed]}. The first Irish cap he received was in an autumn series test of 2006 against the Pacific Islands. He had the honour of being the 1000th player to wear the green of Ireland. He was a member of the victorious Ireland team that won the 2009 Six Nations Championship and Grand Slam Heaslip was a member of the British and Irish Lions squad for the 2009 tour to South Africa. He Started all three tests on the Tour. He also was nominated for the IRB International Player of the Year for 2009. Heaslip was named in the first Celtic League Dream Team in 2007 and along with Ben Blair and Felipe Contepomi retained his place in 2008, in 2009 he became the only player to have been named in all three sides and has retained his unique ever present record in 2010. Heaslip was the only try scorer in the Heineken Cup semi final in which Leinster were defeated 26–16 by the eventual champions Toulouse. Heaslip has recently signed a new 3-year contract with Leinster Rugby which will see him stay at the club until 2014.

Ronan John Ross O'Gara (born 7 March 1977 in San Diego, California) is an Irish rugby union player, playing at fly-half for both Munster and Ireland. He is the all time highest points scorer for both Munster and Ireland. In addition to his prolific point-scoring, he has captained Munster, Ireland and the British and Irish Lions. He is Ireland's most-capped player, and the third most-capped player in rugby union history. He has started at fly-half in victorious European championship campaigns at both provincial and international level.

O'Gara was born in San Diego where his father, Fergal, was working as a professor of microbiology and who was also a wing for the UCG club in Connacht. Ronan was educated at Presentation Brothers College, Cork and won a Junior Cup medal in 1992 and a Senior Cup medal in 1995. He attended UCC and won an All-Ireland Under-20 medal in 1996. He graduated with a B.A. and Masters Degree in Business Economics in 1999.

O'Gara made his Munster debut against Connacht in August 1997, scoring 19 points. Current Munster and Ireland teammate David Wallace also made his debut in this game. His European debut came against Harlequins in September 1997 in the 1997-98 Heineken Cup.

Michael Cheika is a former Australian rugby union player and is a Heineken Cup winning coach and entrepreneur. He is the head coach of Stade Français since his appointment in 2010. He is of Lebanese origin

Cheika was a No. 8 and he captained Randwick from 1997–99

Cheika represented Australia at U-21 level

Cheika played for New South Wales, Castres Olympique and C.A.S.G. Paris in the French league and Italian side Rugby Livorno where he played alongside David Knox.

Cheika had never coached before but when David Campese brought a coaching job to his attention in Italy he applied and was successful. Cheika and Knox coached Padova through a Heineken Cup campaign but did not yield any wins.

Cheika returned to Randwick in 2001 when his father fell ill. With European coaching experience under his belt he secured the Randwick coaching ticket and coached them to Premier League success in 03/04

Cheika replaced Declan Kidney as head coach at Leinster in May 2005. Mick Dawson, Leinster's Chief Executive described it as a calculated punt