Nicky Barry

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Nicky Barry
Full nameNicholas Michael Peter Barry
Born (1969-01-05) 5 January 1969 (age 56)
Limerick, Ireland
Rugby union career
Position Fly-half
International career
YearsTeamApps(Points)
1991 Ireland 1 (0)

Nicholas Michael Peter Barry (born 5 January 1969) is an Irish former rugby union international. [1]

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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]

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References

  1. ↑ "The best Munster team never to play for Ireland". Irish Independent . 18 November 2008.
  2. ↑ "No respite as Ireland face further defeats". The Daily Telegraph . 10 May 1988.
  3. ↑ "The greatest XV of players who've played for both Leinster and Munster". Extra.ie . 26 December 2022.
  4. ↑ van Esbeck, Edmund (23 August 1996). "New recruits for Connacht". The Irish Times .
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