Blackrock College Rugby Football Club is a rugby union club located in Blackrock, Dublin, Ireland. The club was founded in 1882 by former pupils of Blackrock College. Their senior team currently plays in Division 2A of the All-Ireland League Blackrock College RFC was founded in 1882 making it one of the oldest senior rugby clubs in Ireland. While it bears the name and is closely affiliated to the school at Williamstown, it is a very open local club. The club fields adult men’s and women’s teams, under 20s and has a mini and youth section, all of whom are involved in the various competitions throughout Leinster. The men’s senior adult team in Blackrock College RFC is in division 2A of the AIL. The club has a long tradition of producing players for the International side many of whom have also represented the Lions.

Honours

* Leinster Senior Cup (8) 1937, 1939, 1957, 1961, 1983, 1988, 1992, 1999 * Leinster Senior League (4) 1975, 1982, 1983, 1991 *League Section B (1) 1989 * Smithwicks Floodlit Cup (2) 1993, 1997 * Castle Trophy (2) 1978, 1983 *Bateman Cup (1) 1939 * All Ireland League 2nd Division (1) 2000 * Paddy Moore Memorial Shield (2) 2002, 2008 * Jerry Fogarty Memorial Cup (4) 2001, 2002, 2005, 2007 * Brian McLoughlin Memorial Cup (1) 2008 * Brendan Merry Memorial Plate (1) 2008 * Junior 1 League (10) 1900, 1922, 1935, 1948, 1974, 1975, 1977, 1979, 1984, 2016 * Leinster Junior Cup (5) 1889, 1892, 1893, 1898, 1899 * Metropolitan Cup (8) 1929, 1938, 1962, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1984, 2001 * Junior 2 (Minor) League (14) 1925, 1926, 1927, 1930, 1937, 1938, 1958, 1961, 1964, 1982, 1993, 2005, 2006, 2007 * Albert O’Connell Cup (8) 1959, 1965, 1975, 1976, 1982, 2001, 2004, 2005 * Winters Cup (5) 1965, 1967, 1974, 1975, 1997 * Junior 3 League (3) 1972, 1974, 1998 * Moran Cup (11) 1966, 1975, 1976, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1995, 2002, 2004 * Junior 4 League (2) 1983, 1990 * James O’Connor Cup (6) 1965, 1988, 1991, 2004, 2005, 2007 * Guilfoyle Cup (3) 1987, 1990, 1991 * Tom Fox Cup (7) 1971, 1973, 1980, 1981, 1992, 1993, 2001 * Greenlea Cup (10) 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1983, 1984, 1993, 1998, 1999, 2000 * McCorry Cup (9) 1972, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1997, 1998, 2004, 2007, 2010 * Junior Pennant (3) 1975, 1976, 1977 * Fraser McMullen All Ireland U’20 Cup (2) 1997, 1998 * J. P. Fanagan Cup (6) 1997, 1998, 2000, 2006, 2007, 2008 * Under 20s Pennant (3) 2001, 2003, 2007 * Hartigan Cup (Under 20s) (2) 2004, 2009 * Under 20s Purcell Cup (1) 2008 * Women All Ireland League (5) 1993, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2008 * Women All Ireland Cup Winners (3) 2002, 2006, 2007 * Youths (2) 2009 League & Cup Double * Lorcan Sherlock Golf Cup (6) 1938, 1960, 1964, 1969, 1981, 1997

Notable former players

Ireland

The following Blackrock players represented Ireland at full international level.international List of internationals
/ref>

British & Irish Lions

As well as representing Ireland, the following Blackrock players also went on to represent the British & Irish Lions.''The Ireland Rugby Miscellany'' (2007): Ciaran Cronin *

Niall Brophy Niall Henry Brophy (19 September 1935 – 10 March 2023) was an Irish rugby union player. He represented University College Dublin R.F.C., Blackrock College R.F.C., London Irish R.F.C., Barbarian F.C., Leinster, Ireland and the British and Ir ...

1959 Events January * January 1 - Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when the forces of Fidel Castro advance. * January 2 - Lunar probe Luna 1 was the first man-made object to attain escape velocity from Earth. It reached the vicinity of E ...

1962 Events January * January 1 – Western Samoa becomes independent from New Zealand. * January 3 – Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro for preaching communism. * January 8 – Harmelen train disaster: 93 die in the wors ...

* Ray McLoughlin:

1966 Events January * January 1 – In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa takes over as military ruler of the Central African Republic, ousting President David Dacko. * January 3 – 1966 Upper Voltan coup d'état: President Maurice Yaméogo i ...

* Mick Doyle:

1968 The year was highlighted by protests and other unrests that occurred worldwide. Events January–February * January 5 – "Prague Spring": Alexander Dubček is chosen as leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. * Januar ...

* Fergus Slattery:

1971 * The year 1971 had three partial solar eclipses ( February 25, July 22 and August 20) and two total lunar eclipses (February 10, and August 6). The world population increased by 2.1% this year, the highest increase in history. Events Ja ...

1974 Major events in 1974 include the aftermath of the 1973 oil crisis and the resignation of United States President Richard Nixon following the Watergate scandal. In the Middle East, the aftermath of the 1973 Yom Kippur War determined politics; f ...

Willie Duggan William Patrick Duggan (12 March 1950 – 28 August 2017) was an Irish international rugby union player. He won 41 Irish caps, the first in 1975 and finished his international career in 1984 as captain. He toured New Zealand in 1977 with the Br ...

1977 Events January * January 8 – Three bombs explode in Moscow within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group. * January 10 – Mount Nyiragongo erupts in eastern Zaire (now the Democratic R ...

* Hugo MacNeill:

1983 The year 1983 saw both the official beginning of the Internet and the first mobile cellular telephone call. Events January * January 1 – The migration of the ARPANET to Internet protocol suite, TCP/IP is officially completed (this is consid ...

Brendan Mullin Brendan John Mullin (born Jerusalem, 31 October 1963) is a former Ireland international rugby union football player. He played as a centre. Profile Mullin spent his early life in Jerusalem, Israel and attended secondary school in Blackrock Col ...

1989 File:1989 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Cypress Street Viaduct, Cypress structure collapses as a result of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, killing motorists below; The proposal document for the World Wide Web is submitted; The Exxo ...

* Paul Wallace:

1997 File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of t ...

* Shane Byrne:

2005 File:2005 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico; the Funeral of Pope John Paul II is held in Vatican City; "Me at the zoo", the first video ever to be uploaded to YouTube; Eris was discovered in ...

* Brian O'Driscoll:

2001 The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a Participants in ...

2009 File:2009 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The vertical stabilizer of Air France Flight 447 is pulled out from the Atlantic Ocean; Barack Obama becomes the first African American to become President of the United States; 2009 Iran ...

2013 File:2013 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: Edward Snowden becomes internationally famous for leaking classified NSA wiretapping information; Typhoon Haiyan kills over 6,000 in the Philippines and Southeast Asia; The Dhaka garment fact ...

* Luke Fitzgerald:

Other internationals

The following Blackrock players have also played at international level. * Billy Ngawini *

Stephen Bachop Stephen John Bachop (born 2 April 1966 in Christchurch) is a former New Zealand rugby union player and current coach. He is the older brother of fellow former All Black, Graeme Bachop. Rugby career Bachop had two spells in the National Provinc ...

* Gavin Johnson *

Mike Brewer Mike Brewer (born 28 August 1964) is an English car trader turned presenter of Driving, motoring television programmes. He currently presents ''Wheeler Dealers'' on the Discovery Channel (UK and Ireland), Discovery Channel with Marc "Elvis" Pri ...

* AJ MacGinty * Brett Thompson * Luke Thompson

2014/15 squad

*Full-backs: Jan Simon Byrne, David Scott Lennon, Carai Mahon *Wings: Luke Fitzgerald, Davey Rowan (captain), David Kilgallen, Niall Storan, Darren Westman *Centres: Brendan Macken, Sean Coughlan, Emile Van Wyk, Steve Lawton, Daniel Barnett *Out-halves: Ian Madigan, Peter Quirke, David Godfrey *Scrum-halves:

David Moore David Moore may refer to: Politics * David E. Moore (1798-1875), American politician in Virginia * David Moore (Australian politician) (1824–1898), politician in Sandridge, Victoria, Australia * David Moore (Manx politician), member of the H ...

, Jack O'Carroll, Alex Walsh *Front-rows: Mikey Carroll, Colum Murphy, Mark O'Brien, Daryl Charmant-Dunne *Hookers: Conor Kilcoyne, Ryan Fisher, Tom Cooke *Second-rows: Leo Cullen, Owen Cullen, Gary Fenn, Cillian Duff, Joe Scott Lennon *Wing-forwards: Sam Cooke, Peter McCague, Luke Hickey, Paddy Carroll *Number 8s: Richard Marsh, Job Langbroek

References

External links

Blackrock College RFC
{{DEFAULTSORT:Blackrock College Rfc Irish rugby union teams Rugby clubs established in 1882 University and college rugby union clubs in Ireland Rugby union clubs in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown Senior Irish rugby clubs (Leinster)