Frank Byrne (rugby union)
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Noel Francis Byrne (born 18 December 1938) is an Irish former international rugby union player.
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Full name | Noel Francis Byrne | ||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | (1938-12-18) 18 December 1938 (age 85) | ||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Curragh, Kildare, Ireland | ||||||||||||||||
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Born in Curragh, County Kildare, Byrne is the younger brother of 1950s Ireland winger Seamus and played his early rugby with Naas.[1] He was a three-quarter and won his solitary Ireland cap while playing with University College Dublin, replacing an injured Niall Brophy for a 1962 Five Nations match against France in Paris.[2]
Byrne became a dentist in Bray.[3]