University College Dublin R.F.C.

University College Dublin Rugby Football Club is the rugby club of University College Dublin, based in Dublin, Ireland. They play their home games at UCD Bowl. The club was founded in 1910 and they won their first trophy, the Leinster Junior Challenge Cup, in 1914. In 1924 they won their first Leinster Club Senior Cup. Since 1952 they have also played an annual challenge game, the Colours Match against their rivals Dublin University. In 1993 when the AIB League was expanded to four divisions to include forty six senior clubs, UCD and four other university clubs joined the league. In 2001 UCD won the AIB League Division 2 title, gaining promotion to Division 1. They have continued to play in the same division until the 2008/09 season when they finished second from bottom and were relegated. They were the first Irish university rugby club to play in AIB League top division and have now been replaced by munster rivals UCC^[1][2]. They are the current holders of the Leinster League Senior Cup which they won by defeated St. Mary's College RFC in Donnybrook in November 2010.

Notable players

Ireland

In 1920 Andy Courtney became the first UCD player to represent Ireland^[1][3]. The following UCD players also represented Ireland at full international level.

British and Irish Lions

In 1959 Niall Brophy and Bill Mulcahy become the first UCD players to represent the British and Irish Lions ^[1]. Since then several UCD players have also played for the Lions ^[4].

Other internationals

The following UCD players have also played at international level.

See also Category:University College Dublin R.F.C. players

2010/11 Squad

• Full-backs: Simon Gillespie, Terry Jones, Rob Kearney, Michael Twomey
• Wings: Cailbhe Doherty, Tom Fletcher, Andrew Boyle, Sam Coughlan-Murray, John Conroy
• Centres: Rory Allwright, Eoghan Conran, Andy Cummiskey (Captain), Tom Fletcher, Brian O'Driscoll David McSharry
• Out-halves: Niall Earls, James Murray, James Thornton
• Scrum-halves: Peter Du Toit, Joe McGinley, Rob Shanley, Shane O'Meara
• Front-rows: Brian Hall, John Anthony Lee, Ronnie McCormack, Kieran Moloney, Ger Moran, Laurence McKenna, Liam Hyland
• Hookers: Risteard Byrne, David Doyle, Andy Pollard.
• Second-rows: Brian Cawley, Mark Flanagan, Shane Grannell, James Hayes, Keelan McKenna, Stephen O'Dwyer
• Wing-forwards: Wesley Carter, Kevin McLaughlin, Gavin Murphy, Matt Nagle, Daniel Kenny,
• Number 8s: Richie Bent, Kevin Croke

Honours

• AIB Division Two
  • Winners: 2000-01: 1
• AIB Division Three
  • Winners: 1993-94, 1998-99: 2
• Leinster Club Senior Cup
  • Winners: 1924, 1938, 1948, 1963, 1964, 1970, 1977, 2010: 8
  • Runners Up : 1914, 1921, 1923, 1925, 1926, 1943, 1944, 1946, 1961, 1967, 1968 , 1971, 1972, 1978, 1984: 15
• Metropolitan Cup
  • Winners: 1922, 1925, 1932, 1933, 1935, 1942, 1955, 1957, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1969, 1972, 1974: 14
  • Runners Up : 1987: 1
• Leinster Junior Challenge Cup
  • Winners: 1914: 1
• The Colours Match
  • Winners: 1953, 1954, 1957, 1958, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1988, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010: 33

2007-08 AIB League Results

56th Colours Match

References