Shop for Railway Union Hockey Club membership and fundraising. Email: railwayunionbarandvenue@gmail.com. Welcome to Railway Union RFC. The 2nd XI won Division 4 League in 1985, Division 3 League in 1987, Minor Cup in 1992 and Windmill Leisure Minor Cup in 1993. They included Dessie Byrne, Brendan O’Brien, Joey O’Meara, Des, Brian and John Donnelly, Leo Behan, Kevin Brennan, Jim Mackenzie and Peter and Brian Grehan and, slightly later, Frank and Maurice Whelan. Our Club Constitution is available here. Monkstown fell for 77, with Phil Crowe hitting 35 and Kyrie Tanham taking 5 for 26. Fred Austin, the usual 5th XI captain before Neville Clarke inherited the mantle, never needed a new ball, the old black one, with its seamless magic, being made to last an entire season – at least! Brendan O’Brien was awarded the LCU Hall of Fame Award in 2003, when Kevin O’Brien won the LCU Young Player Award, following his brother, Niall, who won it in 2002. Railway Union is a multi-sports club situated in the leafy suburb of Sandymount, not far from Dublin City centre. Hilary O’Reilly and Sharon Molins captained South Leinster. Fundraising. Table. What can beat the Carrolls? Membership. Mens 3s. Dublin 4, We were promoted to senior ranks in 1911. Railway Union, like all sports clubs, has had to fight its way for sponsorship so that it can achieve its potential and we have been lucky to benefit from the generosity of such people as Rangan, Paul Barry, Eddie Tillain, Graham Chisholm and Joey O’Meara, among others, who hassled everyone they knew on the highways and the byways and often the fairways. Login. Niall, Kevin and Kenneth are in the Irish squad for the World Cup in the West Indies in 2007, with Roger in the stand-by squad. Tuesday: closed We should also recall that in 1946 the 3rd XI, captained by Eddie Hayes, won the double of Minor Cup and League. She has been Irish scorer since 1986. We have male Our batting was weak and we struggled for some years, but Kyrie Tanham and Billy Whelan continued to play 1st XI until the late 1950s. The bowlers were dominant with Niall McConnell taking 70 wickets for 788 runs, Edgar Pigot finishing with 40 wickets for 583 runs and the late Edgar Page scoring 354 runs in 14 innings. Enter Captcha Before Click Register : Can't read the image? In 1960, captained by Derek Scott, we achieved that seemingly ever-elusive first capture of the Leinster Senior League, suffering only one defeat, against Merrion. For wicket-keeper, we had the imperious Irish international, Frank Miller, in the 1950s and he was followed by Dessie Byrne who, over a 32-year career from 1955 to 1987, had a total of 478 dismissals, which, uniquely, were made up of more stumpings (254) than catches (224). In 1961, we were defeated by Trinity College in the Senior Cup final at Sydney Parade, and Graeme Guthrie, soon to be one of our own, scored 73 before Niall McConnell clean bowled him. All. The Leinster Senior Cup was captured for the first and, so far, only time in 1967, when Brendan O’Brien was captain. These new young players are coming to the fore with Dhruv Kapoor and Hugo Mays, for example, playing for Ireland Under 13 in 2006, Dhruv having been capped also in 2005. The three sons of Joey and Valerie – Gareth, Graham and Gregory have played 1st XI with Gregory on the victorious team of 2006. We have had two generations of O’Mearas since the late Joey, who left us so early in 2001, grew up with Ginger in the 1950s. Park Avenue, Name Powered By. He was president of the ICU for 2001, the third Railway Union man to achieve this distinction, following Leonard Amoroso, 1953, and Kyrie Tanham, 1967. Judy Cohen was the last president of the IWCU in 2001 and has also been secretary. The wonderful achievements of all teams and of many individual players can be seen as the culmination of a development that started in 1992 when the Under 11s, captained by Roger Whelan, and coached by Brian Donnelly, won the Molins Cup. Ever-present in the club has been Derek Scott, who since 1948, has been our representative on the Leinster Cricket Union executive committee. Prior to all of this, Gareth O’Meara played on the Irish Schools XI. Team news. Hilary has also served as president and was manager of the Irish team in the 1988 World Cup in Australia. Derek, captain of the 1960 team which brought the Senior League back to Park Avenue for the first time, was assistant honorary secretary of the Irish Cricket Union from 1953 to 1974 and then honorary secretary from 1974 to 1997.

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