Dickie Roche

{{Short description|Irish rugby union player}}

{{for|the Waterford hurler|Dick Roche (hurler)}}

{{Infobox rugby biography

| name = Dickie Roche

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| full_name = Richard Edwin Roche

| birth_date = {{birth date|1930|02|22|df=y}}

| birth_place = Woodford, Co. Galway, Ireland

| death_date = {{death date and age|2017|02|20|1930|02|22|df=y}}

| death_place = Cork, Ireland

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| occupation = Engineer

| school = Garbally College

| university = University of Galway

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| position = Wing

| repyears1 = 1955–57

| repteam1 = {{nrut|Ireland}}

| repcaps1 = 4

| reppoints1 = 0

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Richard Edwin Roche (22 February 1930 – 20 February 2017) was an Irish international rugby union player.{{cite news |title=Another For Roche? |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0004679/19551203/002/0001 |work=Galway Observer |date=3 December 1955}}

Roche was born in Woodford, County Galway, and educated at Garbally College.{{cite web |title=Dick Roche RIP |url=https://www.connachtrugby.ie/news/dick-roche-rip/bp101/ |website=Connacht Rugby |language=en |date=21 February 2017}}

A winger, Roche played his rugby with the University of Galway, Dolphin, Galwegians and Connacht, while gaining four Ireland caps.{{cite news |title=Connacht Players Honoured |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0004679/19570921/080/0003 |work=Galway Observer |date=21 September 1957}} He featured twice for Ireland in both the 1955 and 1957 Five Nations campaigns, becoming the first player to be capped while playing for a Connacht club.

Roche was an engineer and builder by trade.{{cite news |last1=Barker |first1=Tommy |title=House of the week: Briar Hill, Myrtleville |url=https://www.irishexaminer.com/property/arid-20454483.html |work=Irish Examiner |date=10 July 2017 |language=en}}