University College Cork Rugby Football Club is an Irish rugby union club which plays in Division 1B of the All-Ireland League. Founded in 1872, they originally played as Queen's College Cork, as UCC was then known. UCC won the inaugural All Ireland U-20 Championship in 1996 with a team that included Ronan O'Gara and Frankie Sheahan while more recently, UCC again won the All Ireland U-20 Championship in 2002. In the same year, they also reached the AIB League playoffs for the first time, narrowly missing out on promotion to Division 1. Leading players in that team included Denis Leamy, Stephen Keogh and Frank Murphy, all of whom went on to play for Munster.

Honours

All-Ireland Cup 1935-36: 1 Munster Senior League 1913, 1914, 1931, 1933. 1934, 1936, 1942 1943, 1945, 1950, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1974, 1978, 1981, 1985: 17 Munster Senior Cup 1887, 1888, 1897, 1900, 1901, 1912, 1913, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1939, 1941, 1950, 1951, 1955, 1963, 1976, 1981: 18 Munster Junior Cup 1921, 1933, 1950, 1953, 1963, 1967, 1969, 1975, 1977, 1979, 2024: 11

Notable former players

Ireland In 1879 Ashley Cummins became the first UCC player to represent Ireland. Since then at least 55 UCC players have played for the full national team. 34 of these played for Ireland while still playing for UCC. Donal Lenihan was the last UCC player to be capped by Ireland while still attached to the club.

Tom Ahearne Moss Finn Jerry Flannery Moss Keane John Kelly Tom Kiernan Paddy McGrath Denis Leamy Donal Lenihan Mick O'Driscoll Ben Mitchell Ronan O'Gara Darragh O'Mahony Patrick Parfrey William Roche Mike Ross Donnacha Ryan Frankie Sheahan Brian Spillane Peter Stringer Paul Wallace Jerry Walsh

British & Irish Lions

As well as representing Ireland, at least nine UCC players also went on to represent the British & Irish Lions. At least two of these players, Mick Lane and Tom Kiernan, were still UCC players when they toured with the Lions.The Ireland Rugby Miscellany (2007): Ciaran Cronin

William Roche: 1924 Mick Lane: 1950 Tom Kiernan: 1962, 1968 Jerry Walsh: 1966 Moss Keane: 1977 Donal Lenihan: 1983, 1989 Paul Wallace: 1997 Ronan O'Gara: 2001, 2005

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