On Monday we had a fantastic day in Cork Golf Club. Weather conditions were perfect in the warm sunshine as was the condition of the course. The winners were 1st      John McCarthy, Martin O’Sullivan, Conor Doyle   (64) 2nd    Rockwell Engineering –   Denis Buckley  Paddy Ryan, Kevin Hallessy (63) 3rd    022 Glass & Glazing  –    Joe Redmond, Paul Cummins, Mags Cummins  (57) Nearest the Pin            Alec Sheehan Longest Drive     Conor Doyle & Liz Kirby See you ..read more

Dr A J F (Tony) O’Reilly 1955-70 29 caps 4 Tries   #628 Tony O’Reilly passed away yesterday, The Internationally renowned Businessman spent two years in Cork and played for Dolphin in 1960/61 & 1961/62. During this period he captained Leinster and was playing for Ireland. Capped a total of 29 times for Ireland, his first cap came on 22/1/1955 against France at 18 years of age and after only 6 senior club games. One of those games was against Dolphin where O’Reilly got a couple of early tries. He played on the Leinster schools team for three years and was also a schools cricket in ..read more

Munster won the U16 7’s series led by Dolphin’s Lily Byrne, pictured holding the trophy- also on the team was Kiera Murphy & Erin Ridgway. The U 18’s were also playing, Megan Crilly & Niamh Crotty bringing Dolphin’s total representation on the day to five. The post Munster U16’s win 7’s Interpro Series appeared first on Dolphin RFC ..read more

Having comfortably beaten Crosshaven in the South Munster U18.5 Open Cup and followed it up with a tremendous 19-12 victory over Cork Constitution in the semi final have been awarded the title. Unfortunately Cobh Pirates were forced to concede the final and Dolphin will now play Shannon in the Munster Final. The post Carrigaline-Dolphin awarded Boys U18.5 Open Cup appeared first on Dolphin RFC ..read more

Dolphin started strongly, assisted by a strong wind and were unlucky not to register an early score, being held up over the line twice in the opening 6 or 7 minutes.  Once Galwegians settled into the game, they showed how dangerous they could be and they opened the scoring with a converted try. Timmy Phelan showed his illusive running skills and reduced the deficit to 5-7 after 13 minutes, however two straight forward penalties gave the visitors a 5-13 half time lead. With the wind at their backs, it was once again the visitors who scored two more tries and at 5-25, people thought Dolph ..read more

John Fitzgerald led his team out for the 32nd time, but the others gave him a 10 second start to recognise his 100th Dolphin AIL appearance. John joined Dolphin in 2013 making the decision to concentrate on rugby, having previously played for the Cork Minor Hurlers. His leadership qualities were recognised immediately and in his 2nd season became Club Captain, and again two years later. This season he became the first player in nearly 100 years to captain the club for three seasons. His on field captaincy in 2014-15 was delayed until 3rd January because of injury. Unfortunately in 2016-17 he w ..read more

Congratulations to our U13 Team who defeated Highfield yesterday to win the Division 2 Cup-   well done lads. The post U13 Division 2 Cup Winners appeared first on Dolphin RFC ..read more

Special congratulations go to our Carrigaline-Dolphin U18.5 boys team who won the BOI Munster Bowl last night in dramatic curtin closer that ran on for over 100 minutes. The final was a grueling affair against the one team that beat us in the proceeding league phase. With multiple challenging situations throughout the match the team did an extraordinary job of securing the trophy. The win was the final of a challenging Bowl campaign where the team had strong wins against Charleville and Desmond and District leading into the final against Youghal. Team included : Billy Whitford, Ben O’Meara, Mi ..read more

Sat 27th April   Musgrave /Virgin Media Park is the place to be at 2.30 pm. Both teams will be playing their 20th game of the season, in a winner takes all game, the prize being a place in Division 2B for next season. We will have a Pre Match lunch, places can be booked up to 6pm on Wednesday by emailing gerathome@gmail.com   The post Play Off Final Dolphin v Galwegians Sat 27th April appeared first on Dolphin RFC ..read more

Dolphin took another step towards retaining Division 2B status with a comprehensive home victory on Saturday. It was the visitors who with a strong wind at their back started very strongly. They shocked Dolphin with a converted try, a penalty, then an unconverted try in the opening 20 mins. A converted try from Craig O’Connell with the extras from Daryl Foley reduced the gap to 7-15, keeping Dolphin in touching distance. Enniscorthy got a 3rd try to make it 7-20, Dolphin kept plugging away, a series of penalties led to a Enniscorthy YC. Dolphin crossed the line through Cam O’Shaughnessy, once ..read more