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Lansdowne is the first ever Leinster team to win all of these trophies in one season. Together with Wanderers, Lansdowne have shared the use of Lansdowne Road since 1880, with each club having their own clubhouse at opposite ends of the ground. However, since 1974 the ground itself has been owned by the IRFU.
The Lansdowne Cup is a rugby union trophy competed for by Australia and Ireland. Established in 1999, the cup was donated to the Australian Rugby Union by the Lansdowne Club of Sydney. [ 1 ] The cup was launched in advance of the two Test matches played during the 1999 Ireland rugby union tour of Australia . [ 2 ]
The Leinster Senior Cup is a major rugby competition in Ireland, involving all senior rugby clubs in Leinster, i.e., clubs from Leinster competing in the All-Ireland League. From 2006 until 2016 it was known as the Leinster Senior League Cup during the period when the Leinster Senior League had been discontinued, but reverted to its traditional ...
Henry Wallace Doveton Dunlop (1844 – 1930) was a sports promoter, civil servant, engineer and, [1] a former leader of Irish Rugby, founder of Lansdowne Football Club and figure behind the construction of the former Lansdowne Road stadium.
Rugby gradually became the main use of the grounds: the first representative rugby match was an interprovincial fixture between Leinster and Ulster in December 1876, and on 11 March 1878, Lansdowne Road hosted its first international rugby fixture, against England, making it the world's oldest rugby union Test venue. Dunlop charged the IRFU £5 ...
Prendergast started his rugby at Cill Dara RFC youths and played his club rugby at Newbridge RFC and Lansdowne FC and joined the Leinster Rugby academy in 2022. [ 5 ] Prendergast was selected for the Leinster first team in the United Rugby Championship against the Lions on Saturday April 15, 2023. [ 6 ]
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Mark Anthony McDermott is an Irish rugby union player and coach. As of 2019, he was a coach with Russia's national rugby union team. [2]He played as hooker for Leinster (4 apps in Heineken Cup) and Munster (12 apps in Heineken Cup); [3] and, at the Irish senior level, for Lansdowne FC and Shannon RFC.