The Recent Greats? Dempsey!

Reading between the lines whilst watching the line-up’s come out for the autumn tests, you can be pretty sure that a few players have played their last games for Ireland:

Mal O’Kelly, Bernard Jackman, Alan Quinlan and Girvan Dempsey

More will come as the young talent builds in Cronin, Toner, O’Brien, Ryan, Healy and Sextion, it’s natural. You’d have to expect Big John Hayes and Marcus Horan to be gone before 2011.

Here are some special memories of Dempsey, in particular that day in 2004 when Ireland gave England their first home defeat since they’d won the World Cup!

And another one against England at Croker in 2007:

Tags: Dempsey, hayes, Horan, jackman, O'Kelly, Quinlan
October 30th, 2009 | Posted in Players | No Comments »