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Colm Rigney

Irish rugby union player and coach

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ22958832 ↗
Source-derived summary

Colm Rigney (born 25 April 1978) is an Irish rugby union player and coach.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Colm Rigney” as irish rugby union player and coach. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Colm, Rigney and Irish.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1978—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1978-04-25. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Colm, Rigney and Irish providing the first useful test.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Colm Rigney”, the useful work is to connect “irish rugby union player and coach” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q22958832. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1978.

Critical limits

Public reputation and documentary evidence do not always develop together; absence from a summary is not evidence of historical absence. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Read biographical claims against dates, named institutions and the cited references. Distinguish a subject’s later reputation from evidence produced during their lifetime.

Best used for
  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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Personal papers, civil or court records, institutional files and the scholarship cited by the source.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Colm Rigney”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Colm Rigney primary sources, Colm Rigney archive and Colm research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Colm Rigney”?
  2. Which claims depend on a single source or contested interpretation?
  3. How has the subject’s reputation changed across later accounts?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Colm Rigney” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.