Ireland international rugby union player
Rugby player
Paddy Johns
Date of birth | (1968-02-19) 19 February 1968 (age 56) |
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Place of birth | Portadown, County Armagh, Northern Ireland |
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Height | 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) |
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Weight | 242 lb (110 kg; 17.3 st) |
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University | Trinity College Dublin |
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Occupation(s) | dentist |
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Rugby union career |
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Position(s) | Lock |
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International career |
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Years | Team | Apps | (Points) |
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1990-2000 | Ireland | 59 | (20) |
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National sevens team |
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Years | Team | | Comps |
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| Ireland | | 1993 7's RWC |
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Patrick Stephen Johns, known as Paddy Johns (born 19 February 1968, in Portadown) was an Irish rugby union player from 1990 to 2000. He played mainly as a lock and occasionally in the back-row. He won 59 caps, scoring 4 tries and 20 points. He had his international debut, on 27 October 1990 against Argentina, in Dublin, in a match won 20–18, and his final appearance came on 11 November 2000, with Japan, in a win of 78–9, again in Dublin. He played at the 1995 Rugby World Cup and the 1999 Rugby World Cup. He also played for the Ireland national rugby sevens team at the inaugural 1993 Rugby World Cup Sevens, where Ireland reached the semi-finals, its best ever finish in a Rugby World Cup Sevens.
He studied dentistry at Trinity College Dublin and currently practices as a dental surgeon.[citation needed]
External links
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- Paddy Johns at ESPNscrum
Ireland squad – 1995 Rugby World Cup
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Backs | |
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Coach: Murphy |
Ireland squad – 1999 Rugby World Cup |
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Forwards | |
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Backs | |
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Coach: Gatland |
Ireland national rugby union team captains |
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To 1900 | - Feb 1875: G.H. Stack
- Dec 1875: R.J. Bell
- Feb 1877: R. Galbraith
- Feb 1877: W.H. Wilson
- Mar 1878: R.B. Walkington
- 1879: W.C. Neville
- 1880: H.C. Kelly
- 1881–Jan 1882: A.J. Forrest
- Feb 1882: J.W. Taylor
- 1883: G. Scriven
- Feb 1884: J.A. McDonald
- Mar 1884: D.F. Moore
- Feb 1885: W.G. Rutherford
- Mar 1885: A.J. Forrest
- Feb 1886: M. Johnston
- Feb 1886: J.P. Ross
- 1887: R.G. Warren
- Feb–Mar 1888: H.J. Neill
- Dec 1888–90: R.G. Warren
- Feb–Mar 1891: Dolway Walkington
- Mar 1891: R. Stevenson
- 1892: Victor Le Fanu
- 1893: Sam Lee
- 1894: Edmund Forrest
- Feb 1895: J.H. O'Conor
- Mar 1895: Charles Rooke
- Mar 1895: Edmund Forrest
- 1896: Sam Lee
- 1897: Edmund Forrest
- Feb 1898: Sam Lee
- Feb 1898: G.G. Allen
- Mar 1898: W. Gardiner
- 1899–1900: Louis Magee
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To the First World War | |
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To the Second World War | |
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To the professional era | |
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To the present day | |
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Ireland 1993 Rugby World Cup Sevens squad |
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Squad | - Vinnie Cunningham (St. Mary's Coll)
- Eric Elwood (Lansdowne)
- Mick Galwey (Shannon)
- Jonathan Garth (Wanderers)
- Brian Glennon (Lansdowne)
- Paddy Johns (Dungannon)
- Denis McBride (c, Malone)
- Billy Mulcahy (Skerries)
- Alain Rolland (Blackrock Coll)
- Richard Wallace (Garryowen)
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