Rugby
Forthcoming Rugby Fixtures are listed:
here for seniors (updated Feb 2012)
Rugby is the main sport played in the school. Several teams, representing every age group and ability level, play the game throughout the school year and often over the summer.
The season 2010-2011 marked the centenary of rugby in Castleknock College, with February 17th marking the centenary of the Rugby XV’s first competitive fixture against a University College Dublin XV.
1912-1913 was a red-letter one in the history of Castleknock College Rugby in that Michael Thornhill’s side captured the Leinster Senior Crown at the school’s first attempt, defeating Blackrock College in the final. They entered the Leinster Schools Junior Cup in 1913-14 but had to wait one more year to enscribe its name on that trophy.
The season 1919-1920 was and remains the most successful season in the history of Castleknock Rugby in that both the Leinster Senior and Junior Cup’s were brought back to the college with the Senior side being captained by future British and Irish Lion, Jimmy Farrell while the Junior side featured Castleknock’s other British and Irish Lion Michael Dunne. In total the College has won the Leinster Schools Senior Crown on eight occasions: 1913,1920, 1931, 1937, 1944, 1947, 1959 and finally a team skippered by Ralph Ince defeated Blackrock College 12-8 in the 1965 decider.
To date the college has had 26 past pupils go on to become full internationals while 2 past pupils were wartime internationals. Tom Shanahan of Lansdowne was the College’s first and was capped for Ireland in 1885 a full 24 years before Rugby replaced Association Football as the sport of choice in Castleknock College. Denis Hurley is the most recent ‘pastman’ to wear the green of Ireland while both Denis and Devin Toner have been involved in Munster and Leinsters Heineken cup successes in 2008 and 2009 respectively. Since the establishment of the Irish Ireland Schools side in 1974-75 18 Castleknock boys have represented their Country while 182 pupils of the College have represented their provinces since the season 1912-13.
| Castleknock College Schools Interprovincials | |
| 2009 - 2010 | Peter Reilly, Sean Lacey, Ross Jones, Tom Austin |
| 2008 - 2009 | Martin Moore, Peter Reilly |
| 2007 - 2008 | Martin Moore |
| 2005 - 2006 | Brian Collins |
| 2005 - 2006 | Ruadhairi Murphy |
| 2005 - 2006 | Tom Walsh |
| 2004 - 2005 | Brian Collins |
| 2003 - 2004 | Devon Toner, Eric Flanagan, Eoin Mullen, Ciaran Delany |
| 2002 - 2003 | Vincent Gough |
| 2001 - 2002 | Greg Stafford |
| 2000 - 2001 | Simon Crawford, Greg Stafford |
| 1999 - 1900 | John Lyne |
| 1997 - 1998 | John Duffy, Colm McMahon |
| 1994 - 1995 | Aidan McCullen, Adrian Langan, Ian Murphy |
| 1993 - 1994 | Peter Coyle |
| 1992 - 1993 | Patrick Farrell |
| 1990 - 1991 | Cormac Dooley |
| 1988 - 1989 | Cormac Twomey, Philip Kenny |
| 1983 - 1984 | Ian Kelly, Peter Brady, Ronan Carthy, Peter Brady |
| 1982 - 1983 | Ian Kelly |
| 1980 - 1981 | Paul Bell, James Fitzsimmons |
| 1979 - 1980 | Conor McCarthy |
| 1977 - 1978 | Michael Moylett, John Murphy |
| 1976 - 1977 | Mark MacWhite, Peter Kinsella |
| 1975 - 1976 | Willie Sexton, Paul Derham, Paul Loughran |
| 1974 - 1975 | Jimmy Molloy, Jerry Sexton, Barry Murphy, David Moore |
| 1973 - 1974 | Michael Kearney |
| 1972 - 1973 | Peter Desmond, Michael Kearney |
| 1970 - 1971 | Emmet O’Rafferty |
| 1969 - 1970 | Paddy Bourke |
| 1968 - 1969 | Tom Cheevers |
| 1967 - 1968 | John Magee, John McCormac |
| 1966 - 1967 | Vincent Hay, Tom Durcan, Alec Blayney |
| 1965 - 1966 | Terry Grant, Fergus Meehan, John Cheevers, Peter Murphy |
| 1964 - 1965 | Ralph Ince, Arthur Cunningham, Terry Grant, Ronald Cudmore, Fergus Meehan |
| 1963 - 1964 | Niall Kennedy, Peter Roughneen |
| 1962 - 1963 | Brian Mullen, Niall Kennedy, Peter Roughneen |
| 1961 - 1962 | Tommy Greally, Laurence Cheevers, Michael Bannigan, Jeremiah Desmond, William Dunne |
| 1960 - 1961 | Paul Feighery, Alan Duggan, Laurence Cheevers, Tommy Greally, Stephen Fuller, Desmond Murphy |
| 1959 - 1960 | Donal McGoldrick, John Kilfeather, John Murray, Stephen Fuller, Tommy O’Reilly |
| 1958 - 1959 | Brian Brereton, Dermot Dorgan, Frank O’Donnell, Niall O’Farrell, John Roughneen |
| 1957 - 1958 | Dick Donworth |
| 1856 - 1957 | Paddy Bourke, Gerard Cleary |
| 1955 - 1956 | Brian Taylor, Patrick Shortall, Oliver Quinn, Tom Lombard, Paddy Bourke, Anthony Boylan |
| 1954 - 1955 | Matthew Barry, Brian Taylor, Gerry Hardy, Paddy Bourke, Thomas McGeough, John O’Neill |
| 1953 - 1954 | Frank O’Rourke, Tom Crotty |
| 1952 - 1953 | Dermot Ward, Joseph Quinn, Brian Howlett, Noel Doyle, Frank O’Rourke |
| 1951 - 1952 | John Moore, Conor Austin, David O’Neill, Dermot Ward, James Crotty, Jerry Nestor |
| 1950 - 1951 | Liam Galligan, Laurence McGovern, Fearghal O’Farrell |
| 1949 - 1950 | Robert Dowley, Robert Kerr, Roger Shipsey |
| 1947 - 1948 | Leo Lynch, Tom Cleary, Brendan Guerin, Roger Shipsey, John Nestor, Richard O’Neill |
| 1946 - 1947 | Paul Cullen, William O’Neill, Frank Maher, Peter McCabe, Tom Cleary |
| 1945 - 1946 | Stan Brindley, Brian Devlin, Conor Crowley |
| 1944 - 1945 | Joe O’Neill, Tom Delahunt, Paddy Hopkins, Eddie Connellan |
| 1943 - 1944 | Paddy O’Donoghue, Joe Brennan, John Cooney, Ray Carroll |
| 1941 - 1942 | Jack Mackesy, Frank Johnston, James Walshe, John Browne |
| 1939 - 1940 | Colm Callan, Paid O’Donoghue, Brendan Steen, Liam O’Rafferty, Sean O’Hanrahan, Frank O’Donnell |
| 1938 - 1939 | Liam O’Rafferty, Tom Cosgrave, Paddy Lawler |
| 1937 - 1938 | David Bell, Alec Lyons, Tom Cosgrave |
| 1936 - 1937 | David Bell, Francis Cosgrave, Laurence Curran, Sean Gallagher, Patrick Lyons |
| 1934 - 1935 | Noel Burke, Jim Ryan, Willie Dallas, Dom Cosgrave |
| 1933 - 1934 | Derry Sweeney, Jim Ryan |
| 1932 - 1933 | Brian Crealey, Tom Brophy |
| 1931 - 1932 | Hugh Finlay, Tim Boland, Widger |
| 1930 - 1931 | Michael Gibson, Tom Sinnott, Tim Boland |
| 1929 - 1930 | James Black |
| 1928 - 1929 | Dick Drew, Joe O’Leary, Sean Maher |
| 1925 - 1925 | Tommt O’Reilly |
| 1923 - 1924 | Michael Dunne |
| 1922 - 1923 | Desmond Grant |
| 1920 - 1921 | Jimmy Farrell |
| 1919 - 1920 | Jimmy Farrell, Charlie Hanrahan, Jack Fitzgerald |
| 1918 - 1919 | John MacKenna |
| 1917 - 1918 | Edgar Hanrahan, Ted McElligott |
| 1916 - 1917 | Ted McElligott |
| 1915 - 1916 | Dan O’Connell, Brendan O’Farrell, James Fitzgerald |
| 1914 - 1915 | Phillip Kelleher |
| 1912 - 1913 | William Murphy, William Power |
| Castleknock College Schools Internationals | |
| 2008 - 2009 | Martin Moore |
| 2007 - 2008 | Martin Moore |
| 2005 - 2006 | Brian Collins |
| 2005 - 2006 | Ruadhairi Murphy |
| 2005 - 2006 | Tom Walsh |
| 2004 - 2005 | Brian Collins |
| 2003 - 2004 | Devon Toner |
| 2001 - 2002 | Greg Stafford |
| 2000 - 2001 | Simon Crawford |
| 1999 - 2000 | John Lyne |
| 1997 - 1998 | Colm McMahon |
| 1994 - 1995 | Aidan McCullen |
| 1993 - 1994 | Peter Coyle |
| 1980 - 1981 | Paul Bell |
| 1979 - 1980 | Conor McCarthy |
| 1977 - 1978 | Michael Moylett |
| 1976 - 1977 | Mark MacWhite |
| 1975 - 1976 | Willie Sexton, Paul Derham |
| 1974 - 1975 | Jimmy Molloy, Jerry Sexton |
| Castleknock College Irish Full Internationals | |
| 1885 - 1888 | Tom Shanahan (Lansdowne) |
| 1920 | Willie Duggan (UCC) |
| 1922 | Jack Egan (Bective) |
| 1926 - 1932 | Jimmy Farrell (Bective) |
| 1926 - 1932 | Charlie Hanrahan (Dolphin) |
| 1928 - 1932 | Jack Arigho (Lansdowne) |
| 1929 - 1934 | Michael Dunne (Lansdowne) |
| 1931 - 1933 | Eddie Lightfoot (Lansdowne) |
| 1934 | Reardon (Cork Constitution) |
| 1935 - 1936 | Paddy Lawlor (Bective) |
| 1939 | Jim Ryan (UCD) |
| 1944 | Noel Burke* (Lansdowne) |
| 1944 | Tom Halpenny* (UCD) |
| 1947 - 1949 | Colm Callan (Lansdowne) |
| 1947 - 1950 | Ray Carroll (Lansdowne) |
| 1952 - 1954 | William O’Neill (Wanderers) |
| 1956 | Leo Lynch (Lansdowne) |
| 1956 | Brendan Guerin (Galwegians) |
| 1962 | Gerry Hardy (Bective) |
| 1963 | John Murray (UCD) |
| 1964 - 1972 | Alan Duggan (UCD) |
| 1965 | Henry Wall (Dolphin) |
| 1972 | Con Feighery (Lansdowne) |
| 1984 - 1988 | Willie Sexton (Garryowen) |
| 1988 | Michael Moylett (Shannon) |
| 1994 | Richard Costello (Garryowen) |
| 2003 | Aidan McCullen (Lansdowne) |
| 2009 | Denis Hurley (Cork Constitution) |
| Castleknock College Wartime Internationals | |
| 1944 | Noel Burke* (Lansdowne) |
| 1944 | Tom Halpenny* (UCD) |
| Castleknock College British and Irish Lions | |
| 1927 | Jimmy Farrell - Argentina |
| 1930 | Michael Dunne - Australia and New Zealand |
