Old Crescent Rugby Football Club

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Old Crescent RFC is a senior rugby club based in Rosbrien, Limerick. We compete in AIL Division 2A Club Origins

In the mid 1940s Rev. J.G. Guinane S J. Limerick.

arrived to teach in Crescent College S.J. A charismatic individual with a whiff of excitement about him, he had been in action during the war as a Chaplain with the Royal Ulster Rifles. He was passionate about the game of rugby and probably Old Crescent Rugby Football Club owes its existence to ”The Ginner“ as he came to be called. Taking over rugby training he set about winning the Munster School

s Cup and succeeded in 1947. He saw great potential in that winning team and persuaded them to stay and play together so in September of that year Old Crescent Rugby Football Club was founded and became a member club of the Munster Branch of the Irish Rugby Football Union. In 1952 the club was promoted to senior club member of the Branch and the Ginner‘s formidable negotiating skills were more than useful in the process. Father Guinane remained deeply involved with the club until his death. The first President of the club was Ivan Harris father of the legendary Richard Harris, movie and stage star. .Richard started his adult rugby career with the club for a period after he finished at Crescent College (and appropriately Richard‘s big breakthrough as a film star was in 1963 playing the part of a rugby player in “This Sporting Life”). First club Captain was Paddy Berkery who in 1955 was capped as fullback for Ireland having moved to Dublin and joined Landsdowne

Membership of the club was initially confined to past pupils of Crescent College but it soon became apparent that this limited the club‘s growth and membership has been open to all applicants for many years. Contact is maintained with the school (now the Crescent College Comprehensive S.J.) where we are always willing to help promote rugby

11/06/2026

Our 6th session of GIAT wont be going ahead due to the rather inclement weather conditions! We will reconvene next Thursday night for the last session before we take a break and reconvene towards the end of August!

Enjoy the rest and we will see you next week!

09/06/2026

Our Youths (Boys & Girls) from U13 up to U18.5 were awarded Player of the Year awards at our recent Club Awards Night held in the Clubhouse. Presentations were made by a coach at each age level along with President for the 2025/26 Season, Liam Keehan.

Its crucial that we celebrate those players who contributed the most to the ethos and spirit of rugby in Old Crescent & Munster Rugby!

Well done Girls & Boys!

08/06/2026

**🏇⛳ THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT ⛳🏇**

A huge thank you to everyone who supported our Cheltenham, US Masters and US PGA Championship Fundraisers over the past few months.

Your continued support plays a vital role in helping **Old Crescent RFC** both on and off the field, and we are extremely grateful to everyone who entered, shared, and contributed to the success of these fundraising competitions.

We would also like to apologise for the delay in announcing the winners. We appreciate your patience and understanding while we got everything finalised.

Congratulations once again to all of our prize winners, and thank you to every single person who took part. The incredible support from our members, supporters, sponsors, and wider community is what makes Old Crescent RFC such a special club.

We look forward to bringing you more fundraising events and competitions in the future.

** ** 💚🖤🏉

04/06/2026

Its never too late to Give It a Try - our 5th session takes place tonight from 7pm!

If you've never even played rugby before, then Give IT A TRY is perfect for you! Learn new skills and make new friends!

02/06/2026

We wish our players sitting their state exams in the Junior & Leaving Certificates the very best of luck.

28/05/2026

Its never too late to Give It a Try - our 4th session takes place tonight from 7pm!

If you've never even played rugby before, then Give IT A TRY is perfect for you! Learn new skills and make new friends!

25/05/2026

Pitches 1 & 3 have been reseeded, we would like to remind patrons and members of the club to stay off the pitches.

Thank you from the Chair of Grounds.

24/05/2026

Friday night saw us hold our Annual Club Awards night, with awards handed out from U13 Boys all the way up to 1st's Player of the Year, along with the Terry Brown Underage Coach of the Year award which was won by former 1st team player and coach Cathal O'Reilly.

Joe Rickard was named 1st XV Player of the Year, Colin Kelly was awarded 2nd XV Player of the Year, David Bermingham was named 3rd XV Player of the year followed up with Evan Cusack being named as U21 Player of the Year!

It was also a chance to celebrate and award medals to our Webb Cup Winning 3rds team.

Thanks to Ronan Hanrahan for stepping up with the camera & to Club Chair of Rugby Liam Toland for being the MC for the night

21/05/2026

Our 3rd session of GIAT takes place this evening and its not too late to join in, make some new friends and get to grips with rugby in a fun and friendly environment! We've had some many new faces already and we hope to see a few more over the next few weeks!

Go on, Give it a TRY!

20/05/2026

This FRIDAY in our clubhouse is the night we've all been waiting for, our Club Awards - rewarding our players for their efforts throughout the season. its going to be a very special night!

Youth awards from 7pm to be followed by our Senior Club awards from 8pm

See you there!

Address

Rosbrien
Limerick
V94K5V2

Website

https://linktr.ee/old_crescent_rfc

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