St Mary's College RFC


St Mary's College Rugby Football Club is a rugby union club based in South Dublin, Ireland, playing in Division 1B of the All-Ireland League. The club was founded in 1900 by former pupils of St. Mary's College, Dublin and was originally known as Old St Mary's. They club won the Leinster Senior Cup for the first time in 1958. In 2000 they won the AIB League under the captaincy of Trevor Brennan.
The club was formerly sited at College Drive, Templeogue from 1955 until the 1970s, including clubhouse and grounds which have since been developed as Fortfield Square apartments. In the 1970s, the club moved to Templeville Road to rugby grounds formerly owned and used by Templeogue College, the Holy Ghost Fathers sister school of St Mary's College.

Honours

Ireland

The following St Mary's players represented Ireland at full international level.
MEN:
1970 Sean Lynch 1970 Denis J. Hickie
1972 *John Moloney 1972 *Tom Grace
1974 *Shay Deering 1977 Tom Feighery
1978 Tony Ward 1978 Terry Kennedy
1979 *Ciaran Fitzgerald ** 1979 Rodney O’Donnell
1981 Paul Dean 1988 Vincent Cunningham
1996 Victor Costello 1997 Denis A. Hickie
1997 Conor McGuinness 1997 Kevin Nowlan
1997 John McWeeney 1997 Malcolm O’Kelly
1998 Trevor Brennan 2000 Peter McKenna
2001 Emmet Byrne 2002 Keith Gleeson
2003 Mark McHugh 2005 Kieran Lewis
2007 Shane Jennings 2009 Jonathan Sexton
2009 Kevin McLaughlin 2010 Rhys Ruddock
2011 Sean Cronin 2013 Jack McGrath
The following St Mary’s players have represented the Ireland national rugby sevens team:
As well as representing Ireland, the following St Mary's players have also represented the British and Irish Lions.