J3 XV · Season archive
J3 XV — Season 2022/23
Now in Division 6 and the Winters Cup. Captain Richard Fagan was lost to a broken arm, Michael O'Malley stood in, and the season ended one score short in a cup semi-final against Dublin University.
Now in Division 6 and the Winters Cup. Captain Richard Fagan was lost to a broken arm, Michael O'Malley stood in, and the season ended one score short in a cup semi-final against Dublin University.
No team photo from 2022/23 has been identified yet. If you have one, please send it to archives@smcrfc.com.
St. Mary's score shown first. H = home, A = away, N = neutral venue.
| Date | Competition | Opponent | H/A | Score | Result | Venue and notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01/10/2022 | Metro Division 6 | Blackrock College | H | 39–45 | L | Templeville Road |
| 15/10/2022 | Metro Division 6 | Dublin University | A | 19–27 | L | College Park |
| 22/10/2022 | Metro Division 6 | Clontarf | A | 11–25 | L | Castle Avenue |
| 05/11/2022 | Metro Division 6 | MU Barnhall | H | 13–24 | L | Templeville Road |
| 12/11/2022 | Metro Division 6 | Guinness | H | w/o | W | Templeville Road. Walkover: conceded by Guinness |
| 26/11/2022 | Metro Division 6 | Blackrock College | A | 17–22 | L | Stradbrook |
| 03/12/2022 | Metro Division 6 | Dublin University | H | 24–48 | L | Templeville Road |
| 14/01/2023 | Metro Division 6 | Clontarf | A | 13–43 | L | Castle Avenue |
| 21/01/2023 | Metro Division 6 | MU Barnhall | A | 19–10 | W | Parsonstown, Leixlip |
| 28/01/2023 | Metro Division 6 | Guinness | A | 12–15 | L | Iveagh Grounds |
| 17/02/2023 | Metro Division 6 | Blackrock College | H | 3–14 | L | Templeville Road |
| 11/03/2023 | Metro Division 6 | Guinness | A | w/o | W | Iveagh Grounds. Walkover: conceded by Guinness |
| 01/04/2023 | Winters Cup | Garda Westmanstown | H | w/o | W | Templeville Road. Walkover: conceded by Garda Westmanstown, according to the club's records (the Leinster record shows no result) |
| 05/04/2023 | Winters Cup, 2nd round | Tallaght | H | 24–17 | W | Templeville Road |
| 15/04/2023 | Winters Cup, semi-final | Dublin University | H | 25–28 | L | Templeville Road |
League and cup results are as recorded in the Leinster Rugby results archive.
The club's season review calls the semi-final the O'Connor Cup; the Leinster record and the club's selection sheets have it as the Winters Cup.
| Pos | Team | P | W | D | L | PF | PA | Diff | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dublin University | 12 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 376 | 185 | +191 | 40 |
| 2 | Clontarf | 12 | 9 | 0 | 3 | 243 | 174 | +69 | 37 |
| 3 | NUIM Barnhall | 12 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 202 | 267 | −65 | 25 |
| 4 | Blackrock College | 12 | 7 | 0 | 5 | 247 | 184 | +63 | 17 |
| 5 | St. Mary's College | 12 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 170 | 273 | −103 | 15 |
| 6 | Guinness | 12 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 89 | 244 | −155 | -8 |
Guinness deducted 12 points for conceding walkovers St. Mary's College on 12th November, v MU Barnhall on 26th November and v Clontarf on 21st January. Blackrock College deducted 12 points for conceding walkover v Clontarf on 12th November, v Dublin University on 21st January and v Clontarf on 28th January.
57 names. The names below come from the club's J3 selection sheets.
1 report from the season, as written at the time. Click any match to open the report.
15 Oct 2022 Dublin University 27 St. Mary's 19 Lost Metro Division 6
College Park
Lads what an emotional roller coaster today was, 3 superb individual taken tries today from Denis Daly, James Walsh and Aidan Boyle on a normal day would have won the game for us.
2 yellow cards had us playing a very fit Trinity team for 20 minutes with only 14 men.
Out lineout mauls were on form, until we got into their 22 and could not win a lineout to save our lives.
That and some injuries to Dara (Ankle), Dan (Ankle), Andre (Head ) and Christian (nose) disrupted our mojo.
The good news is that we can regroup and go again next Saturday v Clontarf. Rest now and we can go again next week and get a win under our belts.
Scores: Denis Daly 1 try, James Walsh 1 try, Aidan Boyle 1 try, Dara Lynch 2 cons.
Mick Flats
12 line-ups, 12 with scorers, from the club's own selection sheets. Click any match to open it.
1 Oct 2022 St. Mary's 39 Blackrock College 45 Lost Metro Division 6
St. Mary's: 1 Andre Christie, 2 Sean Egan, 3 Callan Carey, 4 Richard Fagan, 5 Christian McAlinden, 6 Barry Holmes, 7 Matthew Kennedy, 8 Nils Ludriks, 9 Cian Wogan, 10 Dara Lynch, 11 Aidan Boyle, 12 Michael O'Malley, 13 Denis Daly, 14 Gary Lynch, 15 James Walsh.
Replacements: 16 Kyle Corrigan Dromgoole, 17 George O'Shea, 18 David O'Sullivan, 19 Louis Lovett, 20 Conor Quinn, 21 Eoin Keating, 22 Aaron Doherty.
Scorers. Tries: Nils Ludriks (2), Gary Lynch, Aaron Doherty, Aidan Boyle, Denis Daly. Conversions: Dara Lynch (3). Penalties: Dara Lynch.
15 Oct 2022 Dublin University 27 St. Mary's 19 Lost Metro Division 6
St. Mary's: 1 Andre Christie, 2 Sean Egan, 3 Callan Carey, 4 Liam Kennelly, 5 Barry Holmes, 6 Nils Ludriks, 7 Matthew Kennedy, 8 Christian McAlinden, 9 Cian Wogan, 10 Dara Lynch, 11 Aidan Boyle, 12 Denis Daly, 13 Michael O'Malley, 14 Max Cojocari, 15 James Walsh.
Replacements: 16 Kyle Corrigan Dromgoole, 17 Grellan Lambert, 18 Aaron Doherty, 19 Dan McManus, 20 Max Ebbs, 21 Luke Mullen.
Scorers. Tries: Denis Daly, James Walsh, Aidan Boyle. Conversions: Dara Lynch (2).
22 Oct 2022 Clontarf 25 St. Mary's 11 Lost Metro Division 6
St. Mary's: 1 Andre Christie, 2 Kyle Corrigan Dromgoole, 3 Eoin Keating, 4 Barry Holmes, 5 Dominic Coyle, 6 Liam Kennelly, 7 Matthew Kennedy, 8 Christian McAlinden, 9 Lee Byrne, 10 Dara Lynch, 11 Max Ebbs, 12 Denis Daly, 13 Michael O'Malley, 14 Harry Ebbs, 15 James Walsh.
Replacements: 16 Max Cojocari, 17 Luke Mullen, 18 Nils Ludriks.
Scorers. Tries: Max Ebbs. Penalties: Dara Lynch (2).
5 Nov 2022 St. Mary's 13 MU Barnhall 24 Lost Metro Division 6
St. Mary's: 1 Andre Christie, 2 Sean Egan, 3 David Browne, 4 Dominic Coyle, 5 Barry Holmes, 6 Matthew Fagan, 7 Matthew Kennedy, 8 Max Grace, 9 Lee Byrne, 10 Dara Lynch, 11 Harry Ebbs, 12 Michael O'Malley, 13 Denis Daly, 14 James Walsh, 15 Ciarán Murphy.
Replacements: 16 Ryann Reilly, 17 Cian Wogan, 18 David McGill, 19 Daniel McGill, 20 Aaron Doherty.
Scorers. Tries: Sean Egan, James Walsh. Penalties: Dara Lynch.
26 Nov 2022 Blackrock College 22 St. Mary's 17 Lost Metro Division 6
St. Mary's: 1 Andre Christie, 2 Andrew Gibbons, 3 David Browne, 4 Dominic Coyle, 5 Matthew Kennedy, 6 Callan Carey, 7 Nils Ludriks, 8 Christian McAlinden, 9 Cian Wogan, 10 Ciarán Murphy, 11 Patrick McCormack, 12 Michael O'Malley, 13 Denis Daly, 14 James Walsh, 15 Cal Gray.
Replacements: 16 Kyle Corrigan Dromgoole, 17 Ryann Reilly, 18 Liam Kennelly, 19 Daniel McGill, 20 Max Cojocari.
Scorers. Tries: Cian Wogan (2), Dominic Coyle. Conversions: Ciarán Murphy.
3 Dec 2022 St. Mary's 24 Dublin University 48 Lost Metro Division 6
St. Mary's: 1 Eoin Keating, 2 Andrew Gibbons, 3 David Browne, 4 Dominic Coyle, 5 Barry Holmes, 6 Matthew Kennedy, 7 Nils Ludriks, 8 Christian McAlinden, 9 Cian Wogan, 10 Patrick McCormack, 11 Lee Byrne, 12 Michael O'Malley, 13 Denis Daly, 14 James Walsh, 15 Ryann Reilly.
Replacements: 16 Aaron Doherty, 17 Luke Mullen, 18 Daniel McGill, 19 Callan Carey, 20 Dara Lynch, 21 Max Ebbs, 22 Shane Dempsey.
Scorers. Tries: James Walsh, Patrick McCormack, Shane Dempsey. Penalties: Dara Lynch (2), Lee Byrne.
14 Jan 2023 Clontarf 43 St. Mary's 13 Lost Metro Division 6
St. Mary's: 1 Andre Christie, 2 Eoin Keating, 3 David Browne, 4 Barry Holmes, 5 Liam Kennelly, 6 Matthew Kennedy, 7 Kyle Corrigan Dromgoole, 8 David Dixon, 9 Cian Wogan, 10 Ciarán Murphy, 11 Dylan Croke, 12 Michael O'Malley, 13 Denis Daly, 14 Shane Dempsey, 15 James Walsh.
Replacements: 16 Callan Carey, 17 Christian McAlinden, 18 Conor Quinn, 19 Darragh Stapleton.
Scorers. Tries: Christian McAlinden. Conversions: Ciarán Murphy. Penalties: Ciarán Murphy (2).
21 Jan 2023 MU Barnhall 10 St. Mary's 19 Won Metro Division 6
St. Mary's: 1 Andre Christie, 2 Eoin Keating, 3 David Rohan, 4 Barry Holmes, 5 Liam Kennelly, 6 Matthew Kennedy, 7 Callan Carey, 8 Dominic Coyle, 9 Cian Wogan, 10 Ciarán Murphy, 11 Kevin Jude Shihabira, 12 Michael O'Malley, 13 Denis Daly, 14 Sean McCahill, 15 James Walsh.
Replacements: 16 Aaron Doherty, 17 Daniel McGill, 18 Marius Nikrou.
Scorers. Tries: Cian Wogan, Marius Nikrou, Liam Kennelly. Conversions: Ciarán Murphy, Cian Wogan.
28 Jan 2023 Guinness 15 St. Mary's 12 Lost Metro Division 6
St. Mary's: 1 Eoin Keating, 2 Marius Nikrou, 3 David Browne, 4 Barry Holmes, 5 Liam Kennelly, 6 Kyle Corrigan Dromgoole, 7 Matthew Kennedy, 8 Dominic Coyle, 9 Cian Wogan, 10 Ciarán Murphy, 11 James Walsh, 12 Michael O'Malley, 13 Denis Daly, 14 Sean McCahill, 15 Thady McKeever.
Replacements: 16 Max Ebbs, 17 Daniel McGill, 18 Shane Dempsey, 19 Dylan Croke, 20 Christian McAlinden.
Scorers. Tries: Marius Nikrou, Sean McCahill. Conversions: Ciarán Murphy.
17 Feb 2023 St. Mary's 3 Blackrock College 14 Lost Metro Division 6
St. Mary's: 1 Andrew Gibbons, 2 Conner Gunn, 3 David Browne, 4 Barry Holmes, 5 Liam Kennelly, 6 Matthew Kennedy, 7 Nils Ludriks, 8 Dominic Coyle, 9 Denis Daly, 10 Thady McKeever, 11 Sean McCahill, 12 Cody Dwyer, 13 Michael O'Malley, 14 Dylan Croke, 15 James Walsh.
Replacements: 16 Aaron Doherty, 17 David Dixon, 18 Daniel McGill, 19 James Nolan, 20 Shane Dempsey, 21 Marius Nikrou.
Scorers. Penalties: Michael O'Malley.
5 Apr 2023 St. Mary's 24 Tallaght 17 Won Winters Cup, 2nd round
St. Mary's: 1 Andre Christie, 2 David McGill, 3 David Browne, 4 Barry Holmes, 5 Liam Kennelly, 6 Callan Carey, 7 Kyle Heneghan, 8 Dominic Coyle, 9 Max Ebbs, 10 Michael O'Malley, 11 Dylan Croke, 12 Denis Daly, 13 Gary Lynch, 14 Kevin Jude Shihabira, 15 David Sloan.
Replacements: 16 Eoin Keating, 17 Matthew Fagan, 18 Kyle Corrigan Dromgoole, 19 Daniel McGill, 20 Conor Quinn.
Scorers. Tries: David McGill, Conor Quinn. Conversions: Michael O'Malley. Penalties: Michael O'Malley (4).
15 Apr 2023 St. Mary's 25 Dublin University 28 Lost Winters Cup, semi-final
St. Mary's: 1 Andre Christie, 2 David McGill, 3 David Browne, 4 Barry Holmes, 5 Liam Kennelly, 6 Adam Sloan, 7 Matthew Fagan, 8 Dominic Coyle, 9 Cian Wogan, 10 Michael O'Malley, 11 Dylan Croke, 12 Denis Daly, 13 Gary Lynch, 14 Conor Sheridan, 15 David Sloan.
Replacements: 16 Shane Dempsey, 17 Eoin Keating, 18 Kevin Jude Shihabira, 19 James Nolan, 20 Kyle Corrigan Dromgoole.
Scorers. Tries: Cian Wogan, David Sloan, Kevin Jude Shihabira, Michael O'Malley. Conversions: Michael O'Malley. Penalties: Michael O'Malley.
Counted from the 12 match-day squads listed above: “Squads” is the number of times a player was named in the starting XV or among the replacements. Points are added up from the scorers recorded for those games (try 5, conversion 2, penalty 3).
57 players Open the table
| Player | Squads | Starts | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michael O'Malley | 12 | 12 | 27 |
| Denis Daly | 12 | 12 | 10 |
| Barry Holmes | 11 | 11 | |
| James Walsh | 10 | 10 | 15 |
| Matthew Kennedy | 10 | 10 | |
| Cian Wogan | 9 | 8 | 22 |
| Dominic Coyle | 9 | 9 | 5 |
| Liam Kennelly | 9 | 8 | 5 |
| Andre Christie | 9 | 9 | |
| David Browne | 8 | 8 | |
| Kyle Corrigan Dromgoole | 8 | 3 | |
| Eoin Keating | 8 | 5 | |
| Christian McAlinden | 7 | 5 | 5 |
| Callan Carey | 7 | 5 | |
| Daniel McGill | 7 | 0 | |
| Nils Ludriks | 6 | 5 | 10 |
| Aaron Doherty | 6 | 0 | 5 |
| Dara Lynch | 5 | 4 | 28 |
| Ciarán Murphy | 5 | 5 | 14 |
| Shane Dempsey | 5 | 1 | 5 |
| Max Ebbs | 5 | 2 | 5 |
| Dylan Croke | 5 | 4 | |
| Marius Nikrou | 3 | 1 | 10 |
| Sean Egan | 3 | 3 | 5 |
| Gary Lynch | 3 | 3 | 5 |
| Sean McCahill | 3 | 3 | 5 |
| David McGill | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| Conor Quinn | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| Kevin Jude Shihabira | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| Lee Byrne | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| Max Cojocari | 3 | 1 | |
| Matthew Fagan | 3 | 2 | |
| Andrew Gibbons | 3 | 3 | |
| Luke Mullen | 3 | 0 | |
| Ryann Reilly | 3 | 1 | |
| Aidan Boyle | 2 | 2 | 10 |
| Patrick McCormack | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| David Sloan | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| David Dixon | 2 | 1 | |
| Harry Ebbs | 2 | 2 | |
| Thady McKeever | 2 | 2 | |
| James Nolan | 2 | 0 | |
| Cody Dwyer | 1 | 1 | |
| Richard Fagan | 1 | 1 | |
| Max Grace | 1 | 1 | |
| Cal Gray | 1 | 1 | |
| Conner Gunn | 1 | 1 | |
| Kyle Heneghan | 1 | 1 | |
| Grellan Lambert | 1 | 0 | |
| Louis Lovett | 1 | 0 | |
| Dan McManus | 1 | 0 | |
| George O'Shea | 1 | 0 | |
| David O'Sullivan | 1 | 0 | |
| David Rohan | 1 | 1 | |
| Conor Sheridan | 1 | 1 | |
| Adam Sloan | 1 | 1 | |
| Darragh Stapleton | 1 | 0 |
Reviews, previews and programme messages from the season, as written at the time.
2022/23 J3/J4 season review
The club's J3/4 Season Review for 2022-2023, in full. It covers both squads.
After the AGM we had selected Richard Fagan as the J3 Captain and Conor Quinn as the J4 Captain for the season ahead. Conor’s first game as captain was against a touring team from France called The All Pinks. They played a fast-running game and our lads gelled well to give them a competitive game and we also gave them a great reception in the clubhouse afterwards.
Our J4s had won the Metro Division 9 League and were now promoted to Division 8. Our J3s had held a mid-table position and played again in Division 6.
A pre-season tour was organised to Scotland. These tours are very important for players to get to know each other on and off the pitch aswell as testing yourself against foreign opponents.
Our Director of Junior Rugby Maurice Davin, captains and managers arranged a super tour to Glasgow. 40 members travelled.
Our first game was against Cartha Queens Park on Friday the 19th of August.
They assumed it was our 1st XV and had their biggest crowd attendance all season.
The teams were paraded out escorted by Kilt wearing bagpipers.
We had a mix of J2 /J3 and J4 players.
To our amazement we stood up in the first half to go in 16-0 down.
A lot of our players had been up since 4am and the toll of the early start kicked in the second half as we lost 64-0.
We cannot thank our hosts enough for their hospitality. Great food and drinks.
Garry Manning spoke well as our tour President. We may have lost the game, but we won their hearts.
The next morning, we prepared to play Glasgow Academicals. They were more our level. A much closer game, in glorious sunshine. Our incoming President Bobby O’Connor travelled over to present the Glasgow Academicals with a St Mary’s College RFC Plaque.
We said goodbye to Alan Blake who was moving to Greystones and played his last game with us. A great giant of a gentleman and an excellent tourist, he will not be forgotten.
Bobby mentioned to the lads that when he was checking out of the hotel, the receptionist said that we were an excellent group. Courteous, good-humoured group and that there were no problems with any of us. Bobby jokingly told us of his disappointment to hear such comments and said it was a rugby tour.
Again, respect was shown by our players who were representing our club.
In the leagues our J4s did very well finishing in the top 4, with Navan winning that league. Our J4 s got to the O’Connor Cup final. We had drawn a home final but unfortunately a downpour before kick-off saw our first pitch unplayable.
The game was moved to DLSP where the mature DLSP team won.
Our J3s were going well until our captain Richard Fagan had a motor accident and broke a bone in his arm which ruled him out for the season. Michael O’Malley duly stood in and got the team to the O’Connor Cup semi-final to only loose by a point to Trinity who went on to win the cup and league.
Richard Fagan did recover in time to play in the DP Smyth Blitz and won the Plate against the Silverbacks.
We would like to thank Colm Kavanagh who stood down as assistant manager this season for all his help with Junior Rugby over the last few years. We welcomed Chris O’Connor who came in as his replacement. Big thanks also to our coaches Michael O’Flaherty, David Gardner, Caglar Tuc and Max Daddabbo. We look forward to the new season with Jamie Thompson and Ciaran Murphy coming on board.
Mick Flats