John O'Driscoll (rugby player)

John O'Driscoll (born 26 November 1953)^[1] was educated at Stonyhurst College and is a former Ireland international rugby union player winning 26 caps. He toured South Africa in 1980 and New Zealand in 1983 with the British and Irish Lions and at the time played club rugby for London Irish.

He played for Connacht at Inter-Provincial level. His older brother Barry O'Driscoll was also capped for Ireland. Lions captain Brian O'Driscoll is related to the brothers.^[2]

Notes

↑ John O'Driscoll player profile Scrum.com
↑ Kimmage, Paul. "'If you have that suspicion, he's off and he stays off' - Barry O'Driscoll speaks to Paul Kimmage about concussion". Independent.ie. Retrieved 10 December 2015.

British and Irish Lions – 1980 South Africa tour

Forwards	Beattie Beaumont (c) Blakeway Colclough Cotton Lane Martin O'Driscoll Orr Phillips Price Quinnell Squire Stephens Tomes Tucker Wheeler C. Williams G. Williams

Backs	Campbell Carleton Davies Dodge Gravell Hay Holmes Irvine Morgan O'Donnell Patterson Rees Renwick Richards Robbie Slemen Smith Ward Woodward

Coach	Murphy

British and Irish Lions – 1983 New Zealand tour

Forwards	Bainbridge Beattie Boyle Butler Calder Colclough Deans Fitzgerald (c) Jeavons Jones Lenihan McLoughlin Milne Norster O'Driscoll Paxton Price Squire Stephens Winterbottom

Backs	Ackerman Baird Campbell Carleton Evans Hare Holmes Irwin Kiernan Laidlaw MacNeill Melville Ringland Rutherford Smith Woodward

Coach	Telfer

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