University College Cork R.F.C.

University College Cork RFC

Full name	University College Cork Rugby Football Club
Union	Rugby Union
Founded	1872
Region	Cork
Ground(s)	The Mardyke (Capacity: 5,000)
Chairman	Bryan Hyland
President	Dr. David Corr
Coach(es)	Conor Twomey
Captain(s)	James Ryan
League(s)	AIL Division 1B
2008–09	Promoted to 1B
1st kit 2nd kit
Official website
www.uccrugby.ie

University College Cork Rugby Football Club is the rugby union team of University College Cork, based in Cork in the Republic of Ireland. They currently play in Division 2A of the All-Ireland League. Founded in 1872, they originally played as Queen’s College Cork, as UCC was then known. Recent successes include winning the All Ireland U-20 Championship in 2002. In the same year, they also reached the AIB League playoffs for the first time, narrowly missing out on promotion to Division 1. Leading players in that team included Denis Leamy, Stephen Keogh and Frank Murphy, all of whom went onto play for Munster.^[1]

Honours

• All-Ireland Cup
  • 1935-36: 1
• Munster Senior League
  • 1913, 1914, 1931, 1933. 1934, 1936, 1942 1943, 1945, 1950, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1974, 1978, 1981, 1985: 17
• Munster Senior Cup
  • 1887, 1888, 1897, 1900, 1901, 1912, 1913, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1939, 1941, 1950, 1951, 1955, 1963, 1976, 1981: 18
• Munster Junior Cup
  • 1921, 1933, 1950, 1953, 1963, 1967, 1969, 1975, 1977, 1979: 10

Notable former players

Ireland

In 1879 Ashley Cummins became the first UCC player to represent Ireland. Since then at least 55 UCC players have played for the full national team. 34 of these played for Ireland while still playing for UCC. Donal Lenihan was the last UCC player to be capped by Ireland while still attached to the club.

Tom Ahearne Ashley Cummins Moss Finn Jerry Flannery Moss Keane John Kelly Tom Kiernan Pat McGrath Denis Leamy Donal Lenihan Mick O'Driscoll Ronan O’Gara Donnacha Ryan Darragh O'Mahony

Patrick Parfrey William Roche Frankie Sheahan Peter Stringer Paul Wallace Jerry Walsh Brian Spillane

British and Irish Lions

As well as representing Ireland, at least 9 UCC players also went onto represent the British and Irish Lions. At least two of these players, Mick Lane and Tom Kiernan, were still UCC players when they toured with the Lions.^[2]

W. Ashby: 1910 William Roche: 1924 Mick Lane: 1950

Tom Kiernan: 1962, 1968 Jerry Walsh: 1966 Moss Keane: 1977

Donal Lenihan: 1983, 1989 Paul Wallace: 1997 Ronan O’Gara: 2001, 2005

see also Category:University College Cork R.F.C. players

References

1. www.uccrugby.ie
2. The Ireland Rugby Miscellany (2007): Ciaran Cronin

External links

• Official site