Official Handbook 2018/2019
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OFFICIAL HANDBOOK 2018/2019 FROM THE GROUND UP Proud Sponsor Leinster Rugby leinsterrugby.ie PARTNERS & SPONSORS PREMIUM PARTNERS PARTNERS & SUPPLIERS MEDIA PARTNERS 1 CONTENTS Past Presidents of Leinster Branch ........................................................... 2 COMMITTEES & ORGANISATIONS Leinster Branch 2018/2019 .................................................................. 3 Message from the President of the Leinster Branch .................................... 4 Message from the Bank of Ireland .......................................................... 8 Executive Committee 2018/2019 ........................................................ 14 Branch Committees 2018/2019 .......................................................... 16 Schools Committee ............................................................................. 20 Women’s Committee ........................................................................... 21 Junior Committee ............................................................................... 22 Youths Committee & Reps .................................................................... 23 Leinster Rugby Referees ...................................................................... 24 Leinster Rugby Referees Past Presidents ................................................. 26 Provincial & International Contacts ....................................................... 27 Committee Meetings Diary 2018/19 ................................................... 31 RESULTS 2017/2018 European, UK & Ireland ...................................................................... 33 Leagues in Leinster ............................................................................. 35 Cups in Leinster, Provincial Area Competitions ....................................... 36 Schools Competitions ......................................................................... 38 Age Grade Competitions .................................................................... 39 Women’s Competitions, Lorcan Sherlock .............................................. 45 Leinster Annual Awards Ball ................................................................ 47 Leinster Rugby Charity Partners 2018/19 ............................................. 48 FIXTURES Internationals ..................................................................................... 51 Heineken Champions Cup................................................................... 54 Guinness PRO14, Celtic Cup ............................................................... 56 Leinster League .................................................................................. 57 Senior League .................................................................................... 78 Metro League .................................................................................... 80 All Ireland League .............................................................................. 91 Women’s AIL ................................................................................... 109 CLUB & SCHOOL INFORMATION Club Information .............................................................................. 113 School Information ........................................................................... 154 2 LEINSTER BRANCH IRFU PAST PRESIDENTS 1920-21 Rt. Rev. A.E. Hughes D.D. 1953-54 Lt. Col. J.J. Winters B.E. 1986-87 R.L.K. Mills 1921-22 W.A. Daish 1954-55 L.B. McMahon 1987-88 B.S. Murphy 1922-23 H.J. Millar 1955-56 C.A. Boyle 1988-89 R.A. Brophy 1923-24 S.E. Polden 1956-57 L.J. Lysaght 1989-90 E.J. Coleman 1924-25 J.J. Warren 1957-58 E.J. Lightfoot 1990-91 V.J.D. Kirwan 1925-26 E.M. Solomons M.A. 1958-59 P.L. Tighe 1991-92 C.A. Smyth 1926-27 T.F. Stack 1959-60 C.R. Graves 1992-93 T. D’Arcy 1927-28 A.D. Clinch M.D. 1960-61 R. Fitzgerald 1993-94 B.T. Keogh 1928-29 W. G Fallon B.L. 1961-62 P.S. O’Neill 1994-95 D.P. Guilfoyle 1929-30 W.H. Acton 1962-63 E.J. Doyle 1995-96 W.A. Mulcahy 1930-31 Mr. Justice Cahir Davitt 1963-64 Dr. K.D. Mullen 1996-97 R.S. Browning 1931-32 A.F. O’Connell 1964-65 N. McConnell 1997-98 C.C. Powell 1932-33 V.V. Drennan 1965-66 D.P. Smyth B. Arch 1998-99 J.D. Hussey 1933-34 R.M. Scott M.A. 1966-67 Dr. G.A. O’Reilly 1999-2000 E.J. Thornton 1934-35 P.F. Murray M.D. 1967-68 D.G. O’Leary 2000-01 P.A. Cranfield 1935-36 S.V. Kirwan B.L. 1968-69 T.W. R. Meates 2001-02 J.R. West 1936-37 R.D. Gray 1969-70 T.J. Cullen B. Arch 2002-03 A.J. de Lacy 1937-38 G.P.S. Hogan B.L. 1970-71 J.F. Coffey 2003-04 L.P. Magee 1938-39 P.J. Power 1971-72 R. Ganly 2004-05 P. Boylan 1939-40 Col. J, Gleeson B.E. 1972-73 A.R. Dawson 2005-06 B. Brady 1940-41 T. Bell 1973-74 M.H. Carroll 2006-07 R. Barry-Duke 1941-42 H. Michael M.D. 1974-75 W.D. Fraser 2007-08 M.J. McLoughlin 1942-43 N.M. Purcell 1975-76 F.R. McMullen 2008-09 D. Kavanagh 1943-44 D.J. O’Connor 1976-77 P.F. Madigan 2009-10 D. Lamont 1944-45 Capt. J.R. Ramsey 1977-78 K.D. Kelleher 2010-11 K. Fitzpatrick 1945-46 E.T. McCarron 1978-79 I.B. Cairnduff 2011-12 S. Bayley 1946-47 Rev. Precentor R. Watson 1979-80 P.J. Bolger 2012-13 B. Gormley 1947-48 V.E. Kirwan 1980-81 B. Cross 2013-14 P.J. Deering 1948-49 F.A. Moran 1981-82 N.H. Brophy 2014-15 J. Glackin 1949-50 T.C.J. O’Connell M.D.MCh 1982-83 E. Egan 2015-16 R. McDermott 1950-51 E.W. Massey 1983-84 P.J. Boyle 2016-17 F. Doherty 1951-52 Very Rev. E.R.S. Farrell 1984-85 M. Cuddy 2017-18 N. Rynne 1952-53 E.J. Daly 1985-86 A. Twomey LEINSTERRUGBY.IE 3 LEINSTER BRANCH IRFU (FOUNDED 1879) LEINSTER BRANCH OFFICERS Lorcan Balfe Stuart Bayley President Honorary Secretary Robert Deacon John Walsh Senior Vice President Junior Vice President Ray Ryan Niall Rynne Honorary Treasurer Immediate Past President Trevor Merrey Jon Newsome Honorary Secretary Honorary Secretary (Junior Section) (Schools Section) Michael McCoy Barry Armstrong Honorary Secretary Honorary Secretary (Youths Section) (Leinster Rugby Referees) Rachael O’Brien Niall Brophy Honorary Secretary Frank Sowman (Womens Section) John Hussey Trustees R. A. Brophy & Co. Auditors 4 MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT LORCAN BALFE for the season ahead. We wish all our departing players well and welcome our new recruits from the Leinster Academy and Joe Tomane from overseas. Leinster Rugby are very fortunate to have wonderful sponsors and I would like to thank them for their continued support. Our lead sponsor, Bank of Ireland have embraced both our professional team and our domestic games through their support of the Bank of Ireland Leinster Rugby Schools Cup and the Bank of Ireland Provincial Towns Cup in particular. They are also enthusiastic supporters As President of Leinster Rugby I am of our Women’s team, of the OLSC, delighted to welcome you all for another of our age grade programmes and of great season and to wish everyone course of our Schools of Excellence and associated with rugby in the province a the Summer Camps. Special thanks are most successful and enjoyable year. due to CEO Francesca McDonagh and her team, in particular, Colin Kingston, Last season Leinster Rugby had a Gemma Bell, Sharon Woods and Killian phenomenal year, winning both the Mullen. Heineken Champions Cup and the Guinness PRO14 league – a unique This season we welcome a new kit and historic double. So no pressure for sponsor in adidas. The adidas gear is this season as we strive to build on this available to supporters for purchase success! through our link with Life Style Sports. I would also like to acknowledge On behalf of everyone I would like to the on-going support from Guinness, welcome Felipe Contepomi back into Laya Healthcare, Energia, Deep River the Leinster ranks, and hope that his Rock, CityJet, Optimum Nutrition, time here as a coach will be as fruitful BDO, Aircoach, Windsor Motor and rewarding as when he was here as Group, Beauchamps, Best Menswear, a player. He is a great addition to the Communicorp, The Irish Independent coaching staff and we wish him, along and the InterContinental Dublin. with Leo Cullen, Stuart Lancaster, John Fogarty, Emmet Farrell, Guy Easterby Finally to Ramsey Cardy and our good and all the back room staff the very best LEINSTERRUGBY.IE 5 friends in Sportsfile that provide such a impress and I wish all schools and clubs a great photographic service to us all and great season. To all the teams competing that capture great days at home and in the Leinster League, the Metro Leagues abroad. and the U20 competitions may I likewise wish you a productive and enjoyable A big thank you to all the fans who year. cheered Leinster to their fantastic season last year. To our Season Ticket holders I hope that all involved with Youth and and especially the OLSC – your continued Mini rugby will have a fun filled season support, encouragement and passionate and that strong bonds will be forged following is greatly appreciated. I hope between mums, dads and players and to see you, blue flags and jerseys, in the their local club. I commend all clubs who RDS, the Aviva Stadium, Energia Park are engaged with disability rugby and and at many other venues, both home encourage all to support this initiative. and away over the course of the year. Women’s rugby continues to go from On the domestic front, Leinster Rugby’s strength to strength. Last season saw 38 success was backed up by Lansdowne clubs fielding teams, representing all 12 FC who won the AIL and Leinster counties in the province. Leinster clubs League and Cup quadruple. The AIL will took all the honours at AIL Cup level with continue in the same format this