Charles William Murtagh (born 30 August 1949) is a former Ireland

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international from Northern Ireland. Born in

Lurgan Lurgan () is a town in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, near the southern shore of Lough Neagh and roughly southwest of Belfast. The town is linked to Belfast by both the M1 motorway (Northern Ireland), M1 motorway and the Belfast–Dublin rail ...

, Murtagh was a lock who played for

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Portadown Portadown ( ) is a town in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. The town is based on the River Bann in the north of the county, about southwest of Belfast. It is in the Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council area and had a population ...

and

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. He gained his only

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cap in a match against

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at Murrayfield during the

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. Murtagh coached Portadown in the late 1980s.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Murtagh, Charlie 1949 births Living people Irish rugby union players Ireland international rugby union players Ulster Rugby players Dungannon RFC players Rugby union locks Rugby union players from County Armagh Sportspeople from Lurgan

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