St Munchin's College

St Munchin's College

St. Munchin's College is a second level education college located in the Limerick City suburb of Corbally in the Irish county of Limerick. The school was founded in 1796 and is one of the oldest in Ireland.

St. Munchin's is renowned for its rugby tradition and has produced many Irish international and Munster players.

Former pupils of St. Munchin's College include former Irish rugby internationals; Bill O'Connell, Bill Mulcahy, Larry Moloney, Colm Tucker (also a Lion), John Fitzgerald, Paul Hogan, Philip Danaher, Anthony Foley, Keith Wood (also a Lion and Irish captain) and current Irish internationals Marcus Horan, Jerry Flannery, Barry Murphy and Jeremy Staunton.

Other well known past pupils of St. Munchin's College include;
Niall FitzGerald KBE (1963), former Chairman and CEO of Unilever plc until his appointment as Chairman of Reuters in 2004;

Enda Connellan (1965), CEO Dublin Port Company http://www.dublinport.ie/ ;

John Gormley (1977), Leader of the Green Party (Ireland) was appointed Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government in the Irish Government of 2007;

John Fleming (1965), appointed Catholic Bishop of Killala Diocese, Co. Mayo, Ireland in 2002.

John Feely (1965), Professor of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Trinity College Dublin.


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