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a podcast about old rugby players
Once Were Warriors Rugby Podcast
Once Were Warriors Rugby Podcast
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OWW The Paul McNaughton One
3 MAY 2021 · Aled and Richie get to meet and greet Paul Mcnaughton on Once were warriors this week.
Paul Peter Patrick McNaughton was an Irish rugby union, soccer and GAA player during the 1970s and 1980s. He was also manager of the Irish Rugby Team, a position he held from 2008 to 2011. He played rugby as a centre, with Leinster, Ireland, Chicago Lions, Los Angeles Rugby Club, Greystones and Wanderers. Although better known as a rugby player, he also played soccer for both Shelbourne and Bray Wanderers A.F.C.. To add to his array of sporting achievements, McNaughton represented Wicklow GAA in both senior football and minor hurling, making him the only person to play three sports in Ireland's national.
Richie played his rugby at Greystones and was lucky enough to be coached by Paul, so there is some good history there. Enjoy.
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The Bernard Jackman One
3 MAY 2021 · Aled and Richie spend this podcast with the one and only Bernard Jackman. AKA Birch.
Bernard Jackman was persuaded by Warren Gatland to turn professional and subsequently had two spells playing for Connacht. In between he also played for Sale Sharks, helping them win the 2001-02 European Challenge Cup.
In 2005 Jackman signed for Leinster. A broken leg hindered his early Leinster career but he eventually established himself as a first team regular. He was a prominent member of the team that won the 2007–08 Celtic League title and he also earned himself a recall into the senior Ireland squad.He has now retired from the professional game after a concussion injury in 2010. Bernard Jackman has become an acting ambassador for Acquired Brain Injury Ireland, standing strongly behind the concussion awareness campaign.
Ireland international
Jackman represented Ireland at U19, U21 and college levels and captained Ireland A before graduating to the senior Ireland team. He was included in the squad for the 1998 tour of South Africa but was not capped. He was capped twice during the 2005 tour of Japan and won two further caps during the 2007 tour of Argentina. He was also included in Ireland's 2008 Six Nations Championship squad and featured in all five games.
Coaching career
Jackman has coached several junior Leinster teams, including Tullow RFC, Newbridge RFC and Coolmine RFC. He has guided Newbridge to victory in both a league title and the Lalor Cup. In May 2009, he was appointed Director of Rugby and forwards coach of Clontarf FC.
In 2011 he was appointed on a consultancy basis as skills and forwards coach with FC Grenoble and made full-time for the 2012/2013 season. In June 2016, following the departure of Fabrice Landreau, he became Head Coach of FC Grenoble.In March 2017, with the club bottom of the Top14 Jackman left Grenoble.[16] Grenoble were subsequently relegated at the end of the 2016-17 season.
For 2017-18, he became head coach at the Dragons in Wales. Jackman parted company with the Dragons in December 2018 after 18 months in charge.
In May 2019, Jackman was announced as the new head of coaching of Bective Rangers FC, a Dublin based club and one of Ireland's oldest existing rugby clubs. On his appointment to Bective Rangers.
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The one about Aled Hughes and Adrian O'Farrell aka Richie
14 JAN 2021 · Once Were Warriors Rugby Podcast is hosted by Aled Hughes and Adrian O Farrell aka Richie.
We interview ex rugby players who were legends of the game,icons of their time or real fun characters who love the craic.
his good humoured podcast endeavours to talk to our guests about their upbringing,childhood memories, sports background, funny rugby moments, most memorable matches, best ever players, funniest players, craziest players and all things in-between.
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