Irish rugby legends Cian Healy, Conor Murray and Peter O’Mahony have announced they will retire from international rugby at the end of this season’s Six Nations.

The trio have 371 Ireland caps between them and have each won the Six Nations five times, including the Grand Slams in 2018 and 2023.

In a video posted on the Irish Rugby X account, Healy, Murray and O’Mahony confirmed they would be available for the two remaining Six Nations ties against France and Scotland.

“The three of us have done some very special things together, but we’re not done yet,” said prop Leinster Healy, 37.

“Your support over the years has been incredible and has never gone unnoticed, so thank you and hopefully see you at the Aviva [Stadium] for one more time,” Murray, 35, told fans.

Ireland play France in what will effectively be a Six Nations decider at the Aviva next Saturday (8 March). Ireland are favourites to win a third successive Six Nations, and are odds on with most bookmakers to secure a second Grand Slam in three years.

While Healy and O’Mahony, 35, intend to retire from duty with Leinster and Munster, respectively, at the end of the season, Murray will "pursue a playing opportunity abroad" when his Munster deal expires this summer.

With 136 caps, Healy will retire as Ireland’s most-capped player, having surpassed Brian O'Driscoll last November. Naturally, he was a mainstay of the team until injuries and age made him more of a bench option in recent years.

He is the winner of five Six Nations, seven United Rugby Championships, and four European Rugby Champions Cups, and he was selected for the British & Irish Lions tour of Australia in 2013.

Healy signed his first central contract with the IRFU in January 2011, just over a year after making his Ireland debut against Australia in November 2009, and he subsequently signed extensions in 2013, 2016, 2019 and 2021.

He has signed one-year extensions with Leinster since his last central contract expired in 2022.

Central contracts for Ireland internationals are believed to be worth around €500,000 per year, although Healy was reported as earning €400,000 per year in 2017, so he could conceivably have earned €4m to €5m during the course of his Ireland career.

Healy was also reported to have been offered €750,000 per season by Worcester Warriors prior to signing a three-year extension with the IRFU in 2016.

Speaking to the Mirror in 2018, the prop forward said: "I was aware when I was starting out my rugby journey that it was still quite a young professional sport.

"I had these visions that by year 2018, we would be getting paid like footballers. That’s the only difference. That didn’t happen!"

Off the pitch, Healy established Church Sports Management in 2011, but the company has been strike off listed since early 2024, and last filed accounts in 2018 when the firm had €6,600 in net liabilities. Another company of his, Proper Order Ltd, folded in 2016.

Healy, who used to DJ under the name DJ Church, also sporadically promotes products on his Instagram account including C11 Recovery ice baths and Kärcher vacuum cleaners in recent times.

Munster flanker O'Mahony has played 111 times for Ireland and once for the Lions, captaining the team in the first Test against the All Blacks of the 2017 tour of New Zealand before being unceremoniously dropped for the final two matches.

In addition to the five Six Nations he has won with Ireland, and captaining the team to the 2024 title, O'Mahony has also won the United Rugby Championship with Munster twice, in 2011/12 and 2022/23.

After making his Ireland debut during the 2012 Six Nations, O'Mahony signed a two-and-half-year deal with the IRFU in early 2013, and he subsequently agreed extensions with the governing body in 2015, 2017, 2021 and 2023.

O'Mahony was reported to be earning €500,000 per year after signing a three-year deal with the IRFU in December 2017, and his final central contract was reported to be worth €300,000 for one season plus bonuses. He is estimated to have earned more than €3m during his Ireland career.

The Corkman has a reputation as an intense, single-minded player, so much so that he has no registered business interests in Ireland.

Like his long-time Munster teammate, Murray has won five Six Nations in his 124 Ireland caps since his debut in 2011 and two URC titles over the course of an illustrious career that saw him feature on three Lions tours.

As a fixture at scrum half for much of his career prior to the emergence of Jamison Gibson-Park in recent years, Murray was one of Ireland's highest-earning players, having signed contracts with the IRFU in 2013, 2016, 2018 and 2021.

The three-year extension he signed in 2018 was reported to be worth €650,000, and it is believed he has earned upwards of €5m during his Ireland career. He also has outside brand partnerships with Adidas, Breitling and Whoop.

The latest accounts for his business and management consultancy activities firm, Dedfire Ltd, show net assets of €254,700 at the end of 2023 after making an annual profit of €31,800, up from €27,900 in 2022.

Director remuneration shrank from €110,000 to €56,700 year-on-year. Murray and father Gerard are listed as Dedfire's directors.

Murray is also listed as a director of wife Joanna Murray's Coops the Label Ltd, the former underwear company now trading as Coops Cocktails.

He took over Morrissey's Bar and Restaurant in Co Clare in mid-2021 with Alan Clancy, part-owner and operator of the Nolaclan pub group, which includes bars such as 37 Dawson Street and House.

He holds a 22.5% share in CMK Hospitality, the Doonbeg pub's holding company, and accounts for the year to June 2022 show the firm made a loss of €218,800 in the first year of Murray and co's stewardship, with losses narrowing to €54,800 the next year.

Photo: (l-r) Conor Murray, Cian Healy, and Peter O'Mahony laugh as they pose for a team photograph during the Ireland captain's run at the Aviva Stadium on March 17, 2023 in Dublin, Ireland. (Pic: David Rogers/Getty Images)