Date of birth | 6 May 1919 | ||||||||||||||||
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Place of birth | Buttevant, County Cork, Ireland | ||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 15 December 1984 | (aged 65)||||||||||||||||
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Charles Teehan (6 May 1919 — 15 December 1984) was an Irish international rugby union player.
Born in Buttevant, County Cork, Teehan played for University College Cork and was capped three times as a teenage front row forward for Ireland in the 1939 Home Nations, preferred over former captain Sam Walker.[1] He became the first player produced by Highfield RFC to gain an Ireland cap.[2]
Teehan enlisted in the Royal Air Force in World War II.[3]