Youth’s Awards 2025
Congratulations to all our Youth Award winners on the recognition of their contributions to their respective teams throughout the season.
LRFC Launches Longford’s Fittest Superstars
Longford RFC proudly announce the launch of Longford’s Fittest Superstars, in conjunction with Davy Fitzgerald, creator of Ireland’s Fittest Family on Saturday 23rd August at Longford Rugby Club.
Prize pot of €5,000 to be won
Do you have what it takes to enter Longford’s Fittest Superstars?
Longford RFC are thrilled to announce the hugely successful ‘Fittest Superstars’ event, run by Davy Fitzgerald and his team, is coming to Longford on August 23rd 2025.
We will be raising funds for St. Christopher’s Special School and for the Longford Rugby Club Sports Facility Project, which will benefit our members and the wider Longford community.
The event will follow the much-loved format of Ireland’s Fittest Family, featuring some of the exciting obstacles from the hit show.
Each team must raise €1,000 to enter. Members of our Longford’s Fittest Superstars committee are available to give tips on raising your team’s funds.
The event promises to be a fun-filled day for everyone, with food, beverages and music throughout the day, as well as children’s activities. There will be Full Bar facilities and catering available all day long with a DJ to ensure we stay dancing into the night!
We’re proud to support St. Christopher’s Special School with funds raised for Longford’s Fittest Superstars
Conditions for entry:
Team of 4 Format
Each Team must consist of at least one male and one female. Entrants must be over 16. Cost of Entry per team: €1,000 – can be raised through sponsorship
Register your team: https://forms.office.com/e/T5ECsmVcCn
Deadline for Entry: 28th July.
Prize pot of €5,000 to be won: 1st prize: €2,500, 2nd prize: €1,500, 3rd prize: €1,000
Email Enquiries to: fitness@lrfc.ie
Senior Awards Season 2024/25
Longford RFC Senior Awards Season 2024/25
The annual Awards ceremony for the Senior side of the Club took place recently and the recipients of the players awards were:-
Senior men:-
Men’s 1st XV Player of the Year: Andrew Farrell
Men’s 1st XV Players Player of the Year: Jayden Boshoff
Men’s 1st XV Try of the Year: Daire O’Brien
Men’s 1st XV Most Improved Player of the Year: Fred Davis
Men’s 1st XV Best Newcomer of the Year: Kyle Kenny
Men’s 2nd XV Player of the Year: John Geelan
Men’s 2nd XV Players Player of the Year: James Geelan
Men’s 2nd XV Most Improved Player of the Year: Kevin Byrne
Men’s 2nd XV Best Newcomer of the Year: James Doyle
Men’s 2nd XV Try of the Year: Jack Finnegan
Men’s Young Player of the Year: Scott O’Boyle
Men’s Spirit of Longford RFC Award: McGowan brothers
Senior Women:-
Women’s Player of the Year: Amanda Sheridan
Women’s Players Player of the Year: Emma Dardis
Women’s Spirit of Longford RFC Award: Leona Hoare
Women’s Try of the Year: Blessing Eduard
Women’s Most Improved Player of the Year: Clare Clabby
Women’s Young Player of the Year: Emily Reilly
Women’s Best Newcomer of the Year: Erika Ryan
Jim Smyth Memorial Award for most scores: Fidelma Fallon
Derek Belton / Derek Bannon Memorial Award presented to Team Captain Liam Brady.
Leinster Rugby Club of the Year 2024/25
Leinster Rugby Club of the Year 2024/25
It was a momentous occasion for everyone associated with the Club, past and present, when at the Annual Leinster Rugby Awards and Ball held in the salubrious surroundings of The O’Reilly Hall in UCD on Tuesday, in the company of fellow award winners such as Brian O’Driscoll, R G Snyman, Sam Prendergast et al, the Club was presented with this season’s Leinster Rugby Club of the Year award. The event, attended by over 500 guests, celebrates the best of the domestic and professional game over the 2024/25 season. Among the factors taken into consideration by the awarding panel are the number of referees affiliated to a Club, the growth in the number of players in a Club, the support given by a Club to Leinster at it’s home games, a Club’s disciplinary record over the season, a Club’s facilities, the extent to which a Club is striving to grow the game, particularly in Schools, at Mini’s level and among girls, to name a few. The Award is testament to the hard work and dedication of the dozens of volunteers who give freely of their time week in and week out at all levels within the Club.
Pictured at the Leinster Rugby Club of the Year award ceremony were:- Pat Fitzgerald, Mike Magan, Gerry Carthy, Tony Headon, Pauline Marlowe, Warren Turner, Karen Lennon (Club President who accepted the Award on behalf of the Club), Derick Turner, Trevor McHugh and Mark Quinn.
Notice of AGM 2025
This years AGM will take place on Tuesday 27th May 2025. See attached link to the formal Notice convening the AGM for full details.
Notice of AGM 2024
Notice of Annual General Meeting
30th April 2024
To:- All Club Members
The Annual General Meeting of Longford Rugby Football Club will take place on Thursday 23rd May 2024 at the Clubhouse, The Demesne, Battery Rd, Longford, Co Longford at 8.00pm.
Only fully paid up Members can attend and vote.
Any Motions for discussion must be signed by a fully paid Member and presented in writing to the Club’s Honorary Secretary by 9th May 2024 at the latest otherwise cannot be accepted. The presenter must be present personally at the Annual General Meeting to propose the Motion otherwise it cannot proceed.
The Club Director Nomination form for the positions of
- Honorary President
- Honorary Vice President
- Chairperson
- Honorary Secretary
- Chairperson of Rugby Committee
- Chairperson of Finance Committee
- Chairperson of Administration Committee
is available by clicking on the link below, “Notice of AGM.pdf”. Please download, print, fill out and return. Nominations must be signed by two fully paid up members and be sent to the Honorary Secretary by 16th May 2024 at the latest.
Hilary Davis
Honorary Secretary
Email: secretary@lrfc.ie
Auld Blacks Dinner and Awards 2024
The Longford RFC Auld Blacks will be relaunched on the 2nd February 2024. For full details of the Event itself, please click on the .pdf below.
The Event can only be booked through Eventbrite. To book tickets, please click on the following link:-
Auld Blacks reminiscing with Karen Lennon
In the third of our series, Eamon Considine chats with Karen Lennon, Longford’s incoming President, about her time with the Club.
“I come from Co. Westmeath and in 2003 I came to Longford to take up a teaching post. I had played school football growing up but I had a desire to give rugby a ‘try’. That opportunity arose in 2005 when Jenny Butler started the women’s team and so my association with Longford Rugby Club began. I played with Longford until about 2013 and in that time playing I earned a cap playing with Connaught. Playing rugby is only a small part of my connection with the Club. Over the years I have coached senior and under-age teams and I am currently coaching the Mini’s and the under 18 girls team.
Being a member of a club with Derick Turner in it means you can’t say no when he comes to you with another idea, or another job you could do. I have several titles but the one I’m most proud of is Vice President. Next year I’ll take over from Donagh McDonnell, as President, something I’m really looking forward to and a role I’m honoured to have as I will be the first Lady President of the Club.
There are now 17 under-age teams in the Cub, which is an amazing achievement. To sustain this, so many people have to give of their time coaching, managing and travelling with the kids, and Longford is lucky to have these people. It is hoped that many of the under-age players, in time, will continue to play for Longford at a senior level and continue the magnificent work this Club does.”
Auld Blacks reminiscing with Patrick Quinn
In the second of our series, Eamon Considine chats with Patrick Quinn.
“My first involvement with Longford Rugby Club was 1966/67 when I was home from Newbridge College. Longford Rugby Club had been dormant for many years and some of our players, like Warren Turner and Paddy Quinn, were actually playing with Mullingar. In 1967 a match was arranged with a group of us, who were quite young, against Mullingar. John Doris let us use the dog track as our pitch and we had goal posts put up. Even though Mullingar were our biggest rivals over the years, they were the team who played more games against us in the early years than any other club. This helped us enter the Midland League and later the Cup. Over the next few years my brothers Noel and Ciaran played with Longford and many of my Quinn cousins, including Paddy, John and Seamus, also appeared in the black colours for Longford.
Around 1970 we moved to a field in Abbeycartron and played our matches on this dry but sloped pitch. We used to tog out in a couple of garages at the side of the Annaly Hotel and return afterwards to shower under a pipe pouring out cold water. At that time Longford Rugby Club was fortunate to have some forward thinking and progressive people involved in it. The likes of David Pearse, Jack Comerford, Syl Higgins, Pat Fitzgerald and others were planning the Club’s future and acquired a field beside the tennis club to play on. This pitch was later fondly known as the cabbage patch. In the mid 70’s plans were made to build a Clubhouse and another couple of fields were purchased. The likes of Derick Turner and Pierce Ryan were behind this, and the Clubhouse opened in September 1979.
My rugby career with Longford continued up until 1982 when I played my last match, not for Longford, but against them with the Quinn Fifteen. There were 13 Quinn first cousins and two others, Mick Quinn and his brother Charlie, on the team. I moved away from Longford about that time, but I’ve always followed their progress and gone to matches whenever I got the chance.
Since my first involvement with the Club, I have met some amazing people who have given of their time voluntarily for the betterment of the Club, be it being on the bar teams, to coaching, and driving youngsters to matches. I’m a proud Longford man and an even prouder Longford Rugby Club man.”
Patrick, of course, is part of an extended Quinn family who have had a long association with the Club, going right back to it’s re-formation in 1967.
Reminiscing with Dan Magan
In the first of what we intend will become a regular feature on the website, Eamon Considine reminisces with people who have had a long association with, and involvement in, the Club.
First up in the interviewee’s chair is Dan Magan.
“Rugby for me started in 1978 at about 13 years of age, at Longford Rugby Club. I joined an underage team who had been playing together for four years and had some characters on it, even at that age. Brian Lyons, Johnny Killane, Paudjo Kane, Eamonn Considine were all established members of the team. I was on the U13 team who played the first match at the opening of the Clubhouse in September 1979. Looking back, I may have been a little old to be part of that team but due to my young looks I got away with it.
I continued playing underage up to the U19’s and then graduated to the dizzy heights of Longford thirds. There were great characters like James Connolly and Norman Goode to guide me along and break me into the team. Longford Rugby Club was not only a sports club for me but it was the place to be on a Saturday night, for the disco with DJ Gerry Conboy. It was on one of those Saturday nights that I first set eyes on my future wife, Louise. She had been visiting a friend in Longford and had the great fortune of being brought to the Club that night and meeting me.
Over the years I helped coach underage teams along with Matt Hanley and Micheál Duggan. I realised the commitment our coaches like Derick Turner and Denis Madigan gave to us, with giving up week nights and weekends travelling the Midlands playing games. Longford Rugby Club for me is one of the most progressive clubs around in any sport, with all the facilities, pitches, and the wonderful people who are involved in the running of it.”
Dan, of course, is a member of an extended family who have had, and continue to have, various roles in and about the Club. Our thanks to Eamon who conducted the interview and to Dan for having shared his memories.
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