Barnhall RFC

Barnhall Rugby Football Club is a rugby union club in Leixlip, County Kildare near Dublin. The club plays in the third division of the AIB League after being relegated in the 2007/2008 season. The club has however got a very successful history. Barnhall has 5 senior teams including an under 20's team, and then underage teams from 18's to 13's at youth level, and 12's to under 8's at minis level.

The club was founded in 1969 by workers at the local 'meat packers' located on the current Hewlett Packard site in Leixlip. In 1991 the current club house was opened by the then President of Ireland, Mary Robinson.

Over the years they have produced many great players including Toulose's Trevor Brennan and Brendan Burke.

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Club history

[Barnhall Rugby Club] [http://www.barnhallrfc.com/] was founded on the "16th of May", 1969 by employees of Irish Meat Packers, Barnhall, Leixlip, Co. Kildare. The first full season was 1969/70 when Barnhall played in the J5 O’Connor Cup.

At the start of the following 1970/71 season, the committee decided to find games for a second team. The rationale for this move was that the club had no chance of progression or even survival unless a second team was put on the field. Such was the theory hatched in a committee room; for a start, only 25 people could be found to play rugby and 25 people do not constitute two rugby teams!

Since 1999 Barnhall have established themselves as an All Ireland League Team having spent most of their time in Divison Two. 2008 brought Relegation to Parsonstown, So for the 2008/09 Season Barnhall will be playing division three rugby but hopefully just for a season as Ian Morgan has rebuilt a team he believes will be capable of return to the second division at the first time of asking.