Mick Quinn (rugby union)
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Birth name | Michael Anthony Mary Quinn | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Date of birth | 31 May 1952 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Dublin, Ireland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
School | Newbridge College | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rugby union career | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Michael Anthony Mary Quinn (31 May 1952)[1] is a former rugby union footballer who played international rugby as a fly-half for Ireland. He played schools rugby for Newbridge College and captained them to victory in the 1970 Schools Cup Final over Blackrock College RFC. He then moved on to play senior rugby for Lansdowne Football Club[2] before earning a call up to the Ireland national team. In 1976 he was a member of the Ireland squad that went on tour of New Zealand and Fiji.[citation needed]
His family once owned the H Williams chain of supermarkets, which was later sold to Quinnsworth and subsequently to Tesco Ireland.[citation needed]
References
- ^ Michael Quinn player profile Scrum.com
- ^ "Lansdowne Rugby Club-c/o RDS Ballsbridge Dublin 4 Co. Dublin Ireland". Retrieved 15 February 2010.
External links
Categories:
- Use dmy dates from December 2021
- Use Hiberno-English from December 2021
- All Wikipedia articles written in Hiberno-English
- Articles with short description
- Short description is different from Wikidata
- Infobox rugby biography with deprecated parameters
- Pages using infobox rugby biography with multiple amateurclubs
- All articles with unsourced statements
- Articles with unsourced statements from December 2021
- 1952 births
- People educated at Newbridge College
- Irish rugby union players
- Ireland international rugby union players
- Lansdowne Football Club players
- Leinster Rugby players
- Rugby union fly-halves
- Living people
- All stub articles
- Irish rugby union biography stubs