Individual All-time Records
- Of the players known to have earnt 80 or more Test caps, eight are current or retired members of the Ireland team. Three of these players have also crossed the 100-cap mark for Ireland. Ireland's all-time caps leader is Ronan O'Gara with 126. Trailing him is Brian O'Driscoll with 120. Ireland's third most capped player is John Hayes, who won 105 caps before retiring from rugby in December 2011. Following him is Peter Stringer, who has won 98 caps. Malcolm O'Kelly won 92 caps before he retired in May 2010. Donncha O'Callaghan has won 90 caps in his Ireland career so far, Paul O'Connell has won 85 and Girvan Dempsey won 82 before retiring.
- These figures do not include caps for the Lions. When those are included, O'Gara, with a total of 128 international caps, is first amongst players currently active at Test level, and O'Driscoll is third with 126. John Hayes, with 107, is currently twelfth, O'Callaghan is thirty-fifth and O'Connell is fortieth
- O'Gara holds the Ireland record for Test points with 1,077, placing him fourth all-time in international rugby union, and making him one of only five players to have reached the 1,000 points mark. The only active player ahead of him is Dan Carter (1,267). David Humphreys lies second in the national list with 560 points and Michael Kiernan is third on 308 points.
- As of 18 March 2012, O'Gara is the highest points scorer in the Six Nations with 551 points. Jonny Wilkinson is second with 546, and Stephen Jones is third with 467.
- Ireland's record try scorer is O'Driscoll, who has 45 tries in his 120 appearances.Denis Hickie (29), Tommy Bowe (26), Shane Horgan (21) and Girvan Dempsey (19) complete the top 5 Irish try scorers.
- O'Driscoll is also first on the all-time list for Test matches as captain. He has captained Ireland 83 times and the Lions once.
- Keith Wood currently holds the world rugby union record for most International Test tries scored by a hooker, which is 15.
- Thomas Gisborne Gordon, who played for Ireland between 1877–78, is the only one handed player to have competed in international rugby of either code.
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