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2002 Ireland Rugby Union Tour Of New Zealand
Touring party * Manager: Brian O'Brien * Coach: Eddie O'Sullivan * Assistant Coach: Declan Kidney * Captain: Keith Wood Backs Forwards The matches New Zealand: 15.Leon MacDonald, 14.Doug Howlett, 13.Tana Umaga, 12.Aaron Mauger, 11.Caleb Ralph, 10.Andrew Mehrtens, 9.Justin Marshall, 8. Scott Robertson, 7.Richie McCaw, 6.Reuben Thorne (capt.), 5.Norm Maxwell, 4.Chris Jack, 3.Greg Somerville, 2.Mark Hammett, 1. Dave Hewett, – ''replacements:'' Daryl Gibson, Joe McDonnell, Jonah Lomu – ''No entry :'' Tom Willis, Taine Randell, Marty Holah, Byron Kelleher Ireland: 15.Girvan Dempsey, 14.Geordan Murphy, 13.Brian O'Driscoll, 12.John Kelly, 11. Justin Bishop, 10.Ronan O'Gara, 9.Peter Stringer, 8.Anthony Foley, 7.Keith Gleeson, 6.Simon Easterby, 5.Paul O'Connell, 4.Gary Longwell, 3. John Hayes, 2.Keith Wood (capt.), 1.Reggie Corrigan, – ''replacements:'' Malcolm O'Kelly, David Humphreys – ''No entry:'' Shane Byrne, Paul Wallace, Alan Quinlan, Guy Easterby, Mel Dea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eddie O'Sullivan
Eddie O'Sullivan (born 21 November 1958) is an Irish rugby union coach, player (wing & fly-half) and a former Gaelic footballer. He is a former head coach of the United States national rugby union team and of the Ireland national rugby union team. He was head coach of Biarritz Olympique, who play in the second tier of France, until October 2015. July 2022 Headcoach https://buccaneersrfc.com/ Early career O'Sullivan was born in Youghal, Cork, Ireland. After attending the Christian Brothers school in the town, he graduated from Thomond College, which a decade later became part of the University of Limerick. O'Sullivan played for the Garryowen Football Club during the 1970s and 1980s at fly-half and wing, while teaching physical education, maths, and science in Mountbellew, County Galway. He played for Munster between 1983 and 1986 on the wing and got capped for Ireland A in 1984. He also played Gaelic Football. In 1982, he played corner forward on the Mountbellew Moylough Gael ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tyrone Howe
Tyrone Gyle Howe (born 2 April 1971, Newtownards, Northern Ireland) formerly played in rugby union on the wing for University of St Andrews RFC, Ulster, Ireland and the British & Irish Lions. Howe was brought up in Dromore and attended Banbridge Academy. He played for Oxford University in The Varsity Match against Cambridge in 1994 and 1995, captaining the team in 1995. An injury resulted in a three-year absence from rugby, until he rejoined Ulster for the 1999-2000 season. On 10 June 2000, he made his senior international debut for Ireland against the United States. It was Ireland's largest win, the final score finishing 83–3. He also toured with the 2001 British & Irish Lions. In total, Howe won 14 caps for Ireland. Howe retired from professional rugby at the end of the 2005-06 season. In 2005 he was elected to Banbridge District Council as an Ulster Unionist Party candidate. In 2007 he resigned from the council citing work commitments. Howe now regularly appears on Sky ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shannon RFC
Shannon Rugby Football Club is the most successful club in the All Ireland League, having won the competition nine times. They hail from Limerick near the banks of the Shannon river. Shannon RFC is a member of the '' Irish Rugby Football Union Munster Branch''. The club is one of the top amateur sides in Ireland has seen many of its players progress to professional and international rugby. The 1st XV plays in Division 1A of the All-Ireland League. While the women's side compete in Division 1 of the Munster League. Shannon RFC fields underage teams for boys and girls from u6s - u20s. Shannon RFC made history in 2017 as being the first club in the country to field a girls u20s side. History Shannon RFC was founded on 18 February 1884, in the Shamrock Bar on Corbally Road in Limerick. The founding members were Dan Duggan, Richie Gleeson, Pierce Hartney, Joe Hegarty and Paddy Lynch, who was the team's first captain. Stephan Hanrahan was president of the club for the first two yea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Stringer
Peter Alexander Stringer (born 13 December 1977) is an Irish former rugby union player who played at scrum-half. He played 13 seasons with Irish province Munster from 1998 to 2011; he then played seven seasons from 2011 to 2018 in England with various teams — Saracens, Newcastle Falcons, Bath, Sale Sharks and Worcester Warriors. Internationally, Stringer represented Ireland and the Barbarians. He announced his retirement from rugby in June 2018. Club career Munster Stringer made his Munster debut against Ulster on 3 October 1998, in an Irish Inter-Provincial Championship game. He made his Heineken Cup debut for Munster against Perpignan on 10 October 1998. Stringer was Munster's first-choice scrum-half for the 2000 Heineken Cup Final against Northampton Saints, a game which Munster lost 8–9. Stringer was again at scrum-half for Munster in the 2002 Heineken Cup Final against Leicester Tigers, which Leicester won 15–9. This game also involved the infamous 'Hand of Back ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John O'Neill (rugby Union)
John O'Neill (born 18 September 1973) is an Irish former rugby union player. Career Born in Ballina, O'Neill first began playing rugby for Highfield's underage teams, before joining their senior team at the age of 17. He then joined another Cork club, Sundays Well, where his performances saw him join the Munster squad ahead of the 1998–99 season, going on to play in the 2000 Heineken Cup Final defeat against English side Northampton Saints and again in the inaugural final of the eltic league finaln 2001 defeat against Leinster. In 2002 he went on to play against Leicester in the Heineken cup final in the millennium stadium where Munster were defeated again . He is perhaps best known for scoring the infamous "try that wasn't" in Munster's 16–15 Heineken Cup semi-final defeat against Stade Français in 2001. O'Neill scored a try in the corner to win the game but it was disallowed by the referee, who had judged that the ball had gone into touch before O'Neill grounded it. D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ronan O'Gara
Ronan John Ross O'Gara ( ga, Rónán Ó Gadhra; born 7 March 1977) is an Irish former rugby union player and current coach. O'Gara played as a fly-half and is Ireland's second most-capped player and highest ever points scorer. He is currently head coach of La Rochelle in the French Top 14. O'Gara won 128 caps for Ireland, winning three Triple Crowns and the Grand Slam in 2009. He also played on three British & Irish Lions tours, winning two caps. He played for sixteen seasons with Munster, with whom he won two Heineken Cups. O'Gara is the ninth most-capped and is the fifth highest points scorer in the history of test rugby. He is also Munster's all-time leading scorer, and holds the Heineken Cup record for points and caps. O'Gara scored several match-winning drop goals for Ireland, including in the 78th minute of the Wales vs Ireland match in the 2009 Six Nations Championship, in which Ireland won the Grand Slam. Since his retirement from playing, O'Gara has undertaken a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blackrock College RFC
Blackrock College Rugby Football Club is a rugby union club located in Blackrock, Dublin, Ireland. The club was founded in 1882 by former pupils of Blackrock College. Their senior team currently plays in Division 2A of the All-Ireland League Blackrock College RFC was founded in 1882 making it one of the oldest senior rugby clubs in Ireland. While it bears the name and is closely affiliated to the school at Williamstown, it is a very open local club. The club fields adult men’s and women’s teams, under 20s and has a mini and youth section, all of whom are involved in the various competitions throughout Leinster. The men’s senior adult team in Blackrock College RFC is in division 2A of the AIL. The club has a long tradition of producing players for the International side many of whom have also represented the Lions. Honours * Leinster Senior Cup (8) 1937, 1939, 1957, 1961, 1983, 1988, 1992, 1999 * Leinster Senior League (4) 1975, 1982, 1983, 1991 *League Section B (1) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leicester Tigers
Leicester Tigers (officially Leicester Football Club) are a professional rugby union club based in Leicester, England. They play in Premiership Rugby, England's top division of rugby. The club was founded in 1880 and since 1892 plays its home matches at Mattioli Woods Welford Road in the south of the city. The club has been known by the nickname Tigers since at least 1885. In the 2020-21 Premiership Rugby season Tigers finished 6th, this entitled them to compete in the 2021–22 European Rugby Champions Cup. The current head coach is Richard Wigglesworth, who was appointed as interim head coach in December 2022. Leicester have won 21 major titles. They were European Champions twice, back-to-back in 2001 and 2002; have won a record 11 English Championships, and have won eight Anglo-Welsh Cups, most recently in 2017. Leicester last won the Premiership Rugby title in the 2022 season, and appeared in a record nine successive Premiership finals, from 2005 to 2013. Leice ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geordan Murphy
Geordan Edward Andrew Murphy (born 19 April 1978) is an Irish rugby union coach and former player. He played as Fullback (rugby union), fullback or Wing (rugby union), wing both for the Ireland national rugby union team, Irish international team and the English club Leicester Tigers. Youth Murphy was born in Dublin, Ireland. He was officially named George after his father but his mother called him Geordan to avoid confusion. His six brothers and sister all played rugby union. Murphy was educated at Newbridge College, Newbridge, County Kildare, Newbridge, County Kildare, Co. Kildare before attending Waterford Institute of Technology and De Montfort University in Leicester. Murphy played Gaelic football at Minor (U18) level with Kildare GAA in the All-Ireland Minor Football Championship. Playing career In 1997 shortly before he joined Leicester Tigers, Murphy gained his first U18 rugby cap for Ireland. He gradually made his way into the Leicester Tigers, Tigers' first team squad, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Munster Rugby
Munster Rugby ( ga, Rugbaí Mumhan) is one of the four professional provincial rugby teams from the island of Ireland. They compete in the United Rugby Championship and the European Rugby Champions Cup. The team represents the IRFU's Munster Branch, which is responsible for rugby union throughout the Irish province of Munster. The team motto is "To the brave and faithful, nothing is impossible." This is derived from the motto of the MacCarthy clan – "Forti et Fideli nihil difficile". Their main home ground is Thomond Park, Limerick, though some games are played at Musgrave Park, Cork. History Foundation and early years Munster was officially founded in 1879, at the same time as Leinster and Ulster, with Connacht being founded ten years later in 1889. The first interprovincial matches between Leinster, Ulster and Munster, however, were held in 1875. The founding of the Munster branch of the IRFU was intended to organise and oversee the game within the province and prevent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cork Constitution
The Cork Constitution (CC) is a rugby union club based in Cork (city), Cork, playing in Division 1A of the All-Ireland League (rugby union), All-Ireland League. It was founded by staff of the ''Cork Constitution (newspaper), Cork Constitution'' newspaper. Since the paper did not publish on Sundays, the staff were looking for activities to pursue on Saturday afternoons. In the summer, cricket was played, while in the winter, rugby was the designated activity. The team currently plays in Temple Hill, Ballintemple, Cork, Ballintemple. Due to the introduction of professional rugby union, and its success at producing players who go on to obtain Munster contracts, Con, like many other senior rugby clubs in Ireland, has been unable to field a full strength side for a number of years. In this period though, Con have remained competitive, reaching the final of the All-Ireland League on six occasions since 2001 inclusive; losing in 2001 to Dungannon, losing in 2002 to Shannon, again losin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Kelly (rugby Union, Born 1974)
John Kelly (born 18 April 1974) is a retired Irish rugby union footballer. He played for Munster in the Celtic League and the Heineken Cup, and played for Cork Constitution in the All Ireland League (AIL). Munster Kelly made his Munster debut against Cardiff Blues in September 1997. He scored his first try for Munster in this game. He was part of the Munster team that lost to Northampton Saints in the 2000 Heineken Cup Final, and he was again on the losing side when Munster lost to Leicester Tigers in the 2002 Heineken Cup Final. Kelly was part of the famous Munster team that beat Gloucester in the 'Miracle Match'. Munster required a try bonus-point, as well as a victory margin of 27 points, to advance to the quarter-finals of the 2002–03 Heineken Cup, and Kelly scored two tries as Munster won 33–6. He won the 2002–03 Celtic League with Munster, when they beat Neath to secure the title. He missed the 2005 Celtic Cup Final against Llanelli Scarlets through injury, a ga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
