Dave MacSweeney

Dave MacSweeney
Full nameDavid Anthony MacSweeney
Date of birth(1930-01-26)26 January 1930
Place of birthCappoquin, County Waterford, Ireland
Date of death26 May 2010(2010-05-26) (aged 80)
Place of deathLondon, England
UniversityUniversity of Cambridge
Rugby union career
Position(s) Wing-forward
International career
Years Team Apps (Points)
1955 Ireland 1 (0)

David Anthony MacSweeney (26 January 1930 — 26 May 2010) was an Irish international rugby union player.

MacSweeney was born in Cappoquin, County Waterford, and attended Rockwell College.[1]

A wing-forward, MacSweeney gained an Ireland cap against Scotland at Murrayfield in 1955, taking the place of Jim McCarthy.[2] He was a Cambridge blue and played in the varsity team which faced the touring 1957–58 Wallabies.[3]

  1. ^ "Cambridge Pick 14 Players to Meet Oxford". Birmingham Daily Post. 28 November 1957.
  2. ^ "France set for first title?". Peterborough Evening Telegraph. 26 February 1955.
  3. ^ "Cambridge's Fifteen". The Guardian. 12 November 1957.