David George Irwin (born 1 February 1959) is a former
rugby union
Rugby union, commonly known simply as rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in the first half of the 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand. In its m ...
player who played for and the
British Lions.
Ireland
Between
1980
Events January
* January 4 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter proclaims a grain embargo against the USSR with the support of the European Commission.
* January 6 – Global Positioning System time epoch begins at 00:00 UTC.
* January 9 – ...
and
1990
File:1990 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1990 FIFA World Cup is played in Italy; The Human Genome Project is launched; Voyager I takes the famous Pale Blue Dot image- speaking on the fragility of Humankind, humanity on Earth, Astroph ...
, Irwin made 25 appearances for , scoring 8 points including 2 tries. Helped Ireland win the
1982 Five Nations Championship
The 1982 Five Nations Championship was the fifty-third series of the rugby union Five Nations Championship. Including the previous incarnations as the Home Nations and Five Nations, this was the eighty-eighth series of the northern hemisphere rugb ...
and a
Triple Crown
Triple Crown may refer to:
Sports Horse racing
* Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing
* Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing (United States)
** Triple Crown Trophy
** Triple Crown Productions
* Canadian Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing
* Trip ...
.
British Lions
In 1983 Irwin was also a member of the Lions squad that went on
tour to New Zealand.
Later years
Irwin is currently the medical coordinator for
Ulster Rugby
Ulster Rugby 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 Ulster Branch, which is one of ...
,
as well as being a practising GP in Belfast.
References
External links
*
1959 births
Living people
Rugby union players from Belfast
Irish rugby union players
Ireland international rugby union players
Ulster Rugby players
Queen's University RFC players
Instonians rugby union players
British & Irish Lions rugby union players from Ireland
Car bomb victims
20th-century Irish medical doctors
21st-century Irish medical doctors
Sportsmen from Northern Ireland
Rugby union centres
{{Ireland-rugbyunion-bio-stub