Dolphin Rugby Football Club is a
rugby union
Rugby union, commonly known simply as rugby, is a Contact sport#Terminology, close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in the first half of the 19th century. One of the Comparison of rugby league and rugby union, two codes of ru ...
club in
Cork. It was founded in 1902, by members of Dolphin Swimming Club seeking to find a wintertime activity. They play in Division 2A of the
All-Ireland League.
Former Irish Coach,
Declan Kidney
Declan Kidney (born 20 October 1959) is an Irish rugby union coach. He was the head coach of the Ireland national rugby union team from 2008 to 2013, where he won the 2009 Six Nations with a Grand Slam, winning the 2009 IRB Coach of the Year a ...
played for the club in the 1980s and early 1990s.
Michael Kiernan, with 43, is the club's most capped international player. J S McCarthy and Terry Kingston both captained Ireland. Tomás O'Leary was the scrum half on Ireland's
2009 Grandslam winning team.
The club's top try scorer in The AIB League & Cup is James Coughlan with 37, Coughlan was captain of the Munster side that beat Australia.
Honours
*All Ireland League Division 2 Champions 2003
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Munster Senior Cup Winners (6): 1921, 1931, 1944–45, 1948 and 1956.
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Munster Junior Cup (4):1913, 1923, 1926, 1944.
*Munster Junior Plate: 1985.
*Munster Under 20 League: 1984.
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Munster Senior League: (8) 1924, 1926, 1929, 1949, 1955, 1956, 1973 and 1991.
Notable Past Players
The following have represented Ireland at full international level whilst playing with Dolphin;
IRFU Presidents
*1955/56 C J Hanrahan
*1973/74 I F Mahony
*1983/84 G F Reidy
Current Munster-Contracted Players
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Niall Scannell
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Rory Scannell
References
External links
Dolphin RFC's Official website
Irish rugby union teams
Rugby union clubs in County Cork
Senior Irish rugby clubs (Munster)
1902 establishments in Ireland
Rugby clubs established in 1902
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