Birthday wishes to Muskerry & Dolphin’s Ger Desmond
Former Dolphin Underage and J2 Captain Ger Desmond is celebrating his 50th birthday at Muskerry RFC next Saturday. Ger captained Dolphin U16, 18 & 20 sides in addition to the J2′s to the J2 cup in 1987/88. He took up referring and was a referee to a high level before injury forced his retirement. Having [...]
Bohane makes Munster Debut
Dolphin Nominations for Munster Academy Player of the Year
Dolphin awarded U21 Cup
The U21 Cup final scheduled for Wednesday night did not take place, Cork Constitution sought a postponement and no suitable alternative date could be agreed between the sides and Dolphin were awarded the trophy .Interestingly a reversal of the situation occurred with a league fixture between the teams last month. The strength of Dolphin’s U21 [...]
Dolphin Mini coaching having positive results worldwide.
Rian O’Donoghue is on the far right of the photo As some of you may know Dolphin’s Director of Rugby Feargus O’Donoghue went on a trip to Australia with his family recently. Ger O’Kelly,(played with Dolphin in the 1980′s represented Munster and Ireland U25′s ) is involved in Queensland’s Redlands rugby union club and [...]
U 15′s win South Munster Cup – Dolphin 33 Skibbereen 12
Dolphin 33 Skibbereen 12 Dolphin U15′s have had an excellent season, going into Sunday’s Cup final they had won 16/17 games, the only loss was in the league semi final v their Cup final opponents Skibbereen . They trained hard for the 2nd chance to take on Skibbereen, last weeks Tour to Wales really helped [...]
U15 Tour to Wales
April 12 th We thought that getting away anywhere near the set time would be fun, but the 25 players were so keen they were nearly all there at the appointed time of 4.15 am for the 4.30 am departure and at 4.33 am we were actually making our way along Tramore Road. Our first surprise [...]
Catching up with James Cronin
Well done to James on making his Munster debut v Leinster in the Rabo Direct League game at Thomond Park. A product of the Munster Youths system, James Cronin started his rugby playing career at under-age level with Ballincollig RFC, and then moved to close neighbours Highfield RFC and now plays with Division 1A side [...]
Dolphin Minis undefeated home and away to local rivals Cork Con
On Saturday (13th) Dolphin U7’s, U8’s U9’s and U10’s were away to Cork Con in Temple Hill, while the U11’s and U12’s were delighted to host their Cork Con counter parts on the main pitch in a wet and wind swept Musgrave Park. In very rainy conditions the Dolphin U7’s showed great enthusiasm during the [...]