Nicky Barry
| Full name | Nicholas Michael Peter Barry | ||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 5 January 1969 Limerick, Ireland | ||||||||||||||||
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Nicholas Michael Peter Barry (born 5 January 1969) is an Irish former rugby union international.[1]
Born in Limerick, Barry was a highly rated schoolboy player who won a Munster Schools Rugby Senior Cup with Crescent College in 1986. He started his senior career with Garryowen.[2]
Barry, usually a fly-half, toured France with Ireland as a 19 year old in 1988. He gained his only Irish cap in 1991, coming on as a substitute against Namibia in Windhoek.[3]
At provincial level, Barry started out with Munster, then played for Leinster after he joined St Mary's College, before declaring for Connacht in 1996, having linked up with Clontarf.[4]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ "The best Munster team never to play for Ireland". Irish Independent. 18 November 2008.
- ↑ "No respite as Ireland face further defeats". The Daily Telegraph. 10 May 1988.
- ↑ "The greatest XV of players who've played for both Leinster and Munster". Extra.ie. 26 December 2022.
- ↑ van Esbeck, Edmund (23 August 1996). "New recruits for Connacht". The Irish Times.
External links
[edit]- Nicky Barry at ESPNscrum (archived)
Categories:
- 1969 births
- Living people
- Irish rugby union players
- Ireland international rugby union players
- Rugby union players from Limerick (city)
- Rugby union fly-halves
- Munster Rugby players
- Leinster Rugby players
- Connacht Rugby players
- Garryowen Football Club players
- St Mary's College RFC players
- Clontarf F.C. players
- People educated at Crescent College