Noel Patrick Turley (13 December 1936 – 12 May 2015) was an

Ireland Ireland ( ; ga, Éire ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe, north-western Europe. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel (Grea ...

international

rugby union player 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 ...

. Turley also played for

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through a parentage qualification and played only once for Ireland on 10 February 1962 in a 16–0 defeat to England in

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. Turley was a teacher in St_Michael's College Dublin for many years RTE News report on Decimal currency
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