Connacht Rugby

Connacht Rugby is a professional rugby union team from the province of Connacht in Ireland. She plays in the international championship Pro12 and takes part in European cup competitions. The team represents the Irish Rugby Football Union Connacht Branch, one of four sub- associations of the Irish Rugby Football Union ( IRFU ). Home of the Galway Sports Grounds in the city of Galway.

History

The Association of the Province of Connacht was founded in 1885 and currently consists of 19 clubs. In the Amateurära played the national team against the other three provinces (Leinster, Munster and Ulster ) to the Irish Province Championship. She twice won the championship title, making it by far the weakest team.

Since the professionalization of rugby union in the 1990s, Connacht Rugby involved in the Celtic League, the joint championship of Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Exception to Connacht placed in the lower half of the table and was always the worst of all four Irish teams, which is why they also never failed to qualify for the Heineken Cup itself. In the second European Cup competition, the European Challenge Cup, Connacht in 1998 reached the quarter-finals and 2004 semifinals.

Achievements

  • Irish Province Championship: 2 championship
  • European Challenge Cup semi-finalists: 2004

Player

Current squad

The squad for the 2013/2014 season:

Front team ( forwards)

Pillar

  • New Zealand Rodney Ah You
  • Denis Buckley
  • JP Cooney
  • Ronan Loughney
  • New Zealand Nathan White
  • Brett Wilkinson

Hooker

  • Jason Harris -Wright
  • Seán Henry
  • James Rael

Second - row players

  • Andrew Browne
  • Craig Clarke
  • Mick Kearney
  • Scotland Aly Muldowney
  • Danny qualter
  • David Nolan
  • England Michael Swift

Winger

  • Aaron Conneely
  • Willie Faloon
  • New Zealand Jake Heenan
  • Dave Heffernan
  • John Muldoon (C )

Number Eight

  • New Zealand George Naoupu
  • Eoin McKeon

Behind team ( backs)

Scrum half

  • Kieran Marmion
  • Frank Murphy
  • Paul O'Donohoe

Compound Semiconductors

  • New Zealand Miah Nikora
  • Scotland Dan Parks
  • Craig Ronaldson

Indoor Three Quarter

  • Tonga Mata Fafita
  • Eoin Griffin
  • Dave McSharry
  • Brian Murphy
  • Kyle Tonetti

Outer three-quarters

  • Fionn Carr
  • Matt Healy
  • Tiernan O'Halloran
  • Samoa James So'oialo

Goalkeeper

  • Gavin Duffy
  • Rob Henshaw

Well-known former players

  • Tony Buckley
  • Victor Costello
  • Sean Cronin
  • Eric Elwood
  • Ciaran Fitzgerald
  • Jerry Flannery
  • Simon Geoghegan
  • Ray McLoughlin
  • Eric Peters
  • Eoin Reddan
  • Ofisa Treviranus (Samoa)
  • Gavin Williams ( Samoa)
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