Buccaneers RFC
Buccaneers Rugby Football Club is a rugby union club in Athlone, Ireland. The club's colours are Black and Gold. They compete in Division 1B of the AIB League for 2009/2010.
History
The team's name originates from the Shannon Buccaneers club founded by Diarmuid Murtagh from Athlone in the early 1930s. Fielding players such as British and Irish Lions captain Sammy Walker, the club later disbanded due to the Second World War.
More recently, in the 1993/94 season, the Athlone and Ballinasloe amalgamated in order to take part in the All-Ireland League. They were initially known as Athlone-Ballinasloe before changing their name to Buccaneers.
Ballinasloe withdrew from the amalgamation at the end of the 2005/06 season.
Dubarry Park
Dubarry Park is a 10,000 capacity stadium with a state of the art club house and dressing room facilities. It has hosted the U-21 and U-20 Irish home games for the 6 Nations Championship. It also hosted the AIB Cup finals last year. The stadium is sponsored by the famous Dubarry Shoes of Ballinasloe.
2009/10 Squad
- Full-backs: Brendan Carpenter, Terry Hynes, J.H. Potgeiter, John Seery
- Wings: Gerard Fallon, Mark Foyle, R. Grenham, Paul Harte, Billy Henshaw, Gavin Kelly, John O'Brien, Cormac Sheehy, Sean Stapleton
- Centres: Alex Hayman, James O'Connell, Peter Smith, Brian Tuohy, Aidan Wynne
- Out-halves: David Fagan, Sean Joyce
- Scrum-halves: Michael Donohoe, Adam Kennedy, Frank Murphy, Conor O'Loughlin
- Front-rows: Michael Diffley, Jason East, Benny Gilligan, Conor Higgins, Mark Staunton
- Hookers: Sean Cronin, Adrian Flavin, Garreth Halligan, Marcus Madden
- Second-rows: R. Byrne, Anthony Hughes, Brendan McManus, James Tormey
- Wing-forwards: Padraig Burke, Stephen Burke, Bernard Keaney, Kolo Kiripati, Colin Watters
- Number 8s: Adrian Hughes, Colm Rigney (captain)
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