Donal Martin Canniffe (born 14 August 1949) is an Irish former

rugby union Rugby union football, commonly known simply as rugby union in English-speaking countries and rugby 15/XV in non-English-speaking world, Anglophone Europe, or often just rugby, is a Contact sport#Terminology, close-contact team sport that orig ...

international. Canniffe, the youngest son of Irish hurler

Dan Canniffe Daniel Canniffe (22 November 1909 – 31 October 1978) was an Irish hurler. At club level he played with St. Finbarr's and Garda, and also lined out at inter-county level with Dublin and Cork Career Canniffe first played hurling at club lev ...

, was raised in Cork. A scrum-half, Canniffe played for

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and Lansdowne. He was capped twice for

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in the

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and was the reserve scrum-half to John Robbie on that year's tour of New Zealand, during which he suffered a tour ending ankle injury. In 1978, he was captain of the Munster side that defeated the All Blacks at Thomond Park, then found out after the match that his father had collapsed at half-time and died.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Canniffe, Donal 1949 births Living people Irish rugby union players Ireland international rugby union players Rugby union scrum-halves Rugby union players from Cork (city) Cork Constitution players Munster Rugby players Lansdowne Football Club players

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