More Irish rugby internationals

Snickers Man

All right then clogs of cleverness.

Name the seven post War Irish rugby internationals whose surname ends in an A.

Again, there's actually eight but two have the same surname.

(and most of them are from the 1980s or more recently)

DmanDmythDledge

Ronan O'Gara
Conor O'Shea

daveharnett

Brian o meara

Snickers Man

DmanDmythDledge wrote: »

Ronan O'Gara
Conor O'Shea

correct x 2

davehartnett wrote:

Brian o meara

Correct.

There was another earlier O'Meara, Johnny who was Jack Kyle's scrum half partner for years in the 1950s.


Four to go. One obscure one from the 1960s and the others all from the late 1980s or more recently.

andyman

Peter McKenna

Snickers Man

andyman wrote: »

Peter McKenna

Correct. Good one.

Three to go.

Clues: You're looking for a full back from the late 1980s and a wing forward, quite a good one actually, who played a few seasons in the late 80s early 90s.

Plus a centre from the 1960s who only had a few caps. Bit of an obscure one.

Snickers Man

Bump:

This one could be dying a death so I'll just give a few more clues and then the answers shortly if nobody objects.


There's still three outstanding.

One was a fullback who played nearly a full season in the 1980s and scored a try in one of those matches.


The other was a tough-tackling flanker, also of the late 1980s early 1990s who was described by a rabid Shannon fan of my acquaintance as "the only Cork Con player I ever liked"

Then there was an Ulster centre who played a couple of times in the 1960s but only when other people were injured, it would seem. .

onthelang

pat o hara

Snickers Man

Correct. Pat O'Hara was the tough tackling Cork man that even Limerick men liked.


The full back was Fergus Dunlea and the obscure Ulsterman was Harry Rea.