North Kildare RFC

Republic of Ireland North Kildare
Full nameNorth Kildare Rugby Football Club
UnionIRFU
Leinster
Founded1928 (1928)
Ground(s)The Maws, Kilcock

North Kildare RFC is an Irish rugby union team based between Maynooth and Kilcock, County Kildare.[1] It is part of the North Kildare Club, which also includes cricket, hockey, bowls, tennis and bridge sections. The rugby club, whose colours are cerise, white and blue,[2] caters for adult, youths, mini and girls rugby.[3]

As of 2025, the club's first was playing in Division 2A of the Leinster League.[4] Its teams also participate in IRFU Leinster Branch and North Midlands Area competitions.[5] The First XV were promoted to Division 2A of the Leinster League at the end of the 2015 season, the second promotion in 3 years. In the 2015/16 season the club finished 3rd in 1B, the highest the club had ever reached in Leinster since the Leinster League began in 1993/94.

Notable former players

Honours

References

  1. ↑ Lowry, Brian (24 February 2017). "Five-year plan drives club's big ambitions". Irish Independent. Retrieved 21 December 2019.
  2. ↑ "Leinster Rugby Handbook 2021" (PDF). Leinster Rugby.
  3. ↑ "North Kildare RFC - Girls Rugby". northkildaresportsclub.ie.
  4. ↑ "League Table Leinster League - Division 2A". leinsterrugby.sportlomo.com. Retrieved 19 July 2026.
  5. ↑ "North Midlands Area Branch, looking after local rugby". kildarenow.com. 26 May 2021. Retrieved 22 July 2021.
  6. ↑ "When Kildare men were kings of English rugby". leinsterleader.ie. 7 October 2017. Retrieved 19 July 2026. Bob Casey always felt more a product of North Kildare rugby club and Maynooth than his billing as a former student of Blackrock College allowed
  7. ↑ "Ashe receives prestigious award". kildare-nationalist.ie. 1 January 2025. Retrieved 19 July 2026. Devin Toner began his illustrious rugby career as a mini player with North Kildare RFC
  8. ↑ "Will Connors back to his roots but Irish ambitions firmly on his mind". kildare-nationalist.ie. 13 November 2024. Retrieved 19 July 2026. Will Connors returned to his Alma Mater of Clongowes Wood and his childhood club of North Kildare RFC
  9. ↑ "Provincial Towns Cup - History". leinsterrugby.ie. Archived from the original on 24 March 2013.
  10. ↑ "Domestic Fixtures & Results". leinsterrugby.ie. Archived from the original on 17 May 2021.


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