Sundays Well RFC
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{{Infobox rugby team
| teamname = Sundays Well RFC
| image = SundaysWellLogo.jpg
| fullname = Sundays Well Rugby Football Club
| union = {{flagicon|IRE|rugby union}} IRFU
Munster
| nickname = The Well
| founded = {{start date and age|1906}}
| ground = Musgrave Park, Cork
| capacity = 8,008
| league = Munster Junior League Division 1
| season = 2023-2024
| position = 5th
| url = http://sundayswellrfc.com/
| pattern_b1 = _belgranoath rugby1900
| pattern_la1 = _belgranoac rugby 1900
| pattern_ra1 = _belgranoac rugby 1900
| pattern_so1 = _hoops_red_white
| socks1 = 006400
}}
Sundays Well Rugby Football Club is an amateur rugby union team based in Cork City, Ireland. Originally founded in 1906 in the Sunday's Well area on the northside of Cork city, it has been based at Musgrave Park on the city's southside since the mid-20th century. The club's first team competes in the Munster Junior League Division 1 following relegation from Division 2C of the Energia All Ireland League in 2023. {{cite web|url = https://www.irishrugby.ie/2023/04/26/oconnell-to-coach-sundays-well-next-season/ | publisher = Munster Rugby | website = munsterrugby.ie| title = O’Connell To Coach Sunday’s Well Next Season | date = 26 April 2023 | accessdate = 3 May 2023}}
Sundays Well RFC is home to the first Irish Mixed Ability Rugby Team – Sundays Well Rebels. The team began training together in January 2014{{Cite web |title=What is Mixed Ability rugby? {{!}} International Mixed Ability Sports |url=https://www.mixedabilitysports.org/what-is-mixed-ability-rugby/ |access-date=2024-12-02 |language=en-GB}} and have had two Mixed Ability World Tournament wins.{{Cite web |date=2024-10-10 |title=Sunday's Well Rebels get on their bikes to raise funds for Mixed Ability Rugby World Cup |url=https://www.echolive.ie/corksport/arid-41493164.html |access-date=2024-12-02 |website=echo live |language=en}}
History
The club was first formed in 1906,{{cite web|url = https://munsterrugby.ie/2013/09/20/sundays-well-look-to-the-future/ | publisher = Munster Rugby | website = munsterrugby.ie | title = Sunday's Well Look To The Future | date = 20 September 2013 | accessdate = 15 May 2019 }} however through lack of funds and permanent grounds, it was dissolved at the end of the 1907/1908 season. At the beginning of the 1910/1911 season however, it re-surfaced only for it to disband again three seasons later at the outbreak of the First World War. During that war quite a number of the club members were killed in the conflict.{{fact|date=May 2019}} The club, in its present-day format, was re-activated in 1923,{{cite web|url = http://sundayswellrfc.com/club-history/ | publisher = Sundays Well RFC | website = sundayswellrfc.com | title = Club History | date = 20 November 2018 | accessdate = 15 May 2019 }} and progressed to rented grounds at Houndsditch, Clogheen, Cork City, and then to grounds at Shanakiel, Cork City (the committee and dressing rooms were in a building at the foot of Shanakiel Hill). During the 1941/1942 season, the club moved to its current home in Musgrave Park, Cork City. In 1960, the present clubhouse was opened with an extension being added in 1981.
The club has an under age section with teams competing at all levels in local South Munster leagues. Teams train in Musgrave Park and in other local facilities.{{fact|date=September 2023}}
Honours
- Mixed Ability Rugby World Cup (2): 2015 and 2022{{cite web |date=3 May 2024 |title=Sundays Well Rebels To Take On MARIs This Weekend |url=https://www.munsterrugby.ie/domestic_news/sundays-well-rebels-to-take-on-maris-this-weekend/ |access-date=9 December 2024 |website=Munsterrugby.ie}}
- Munster Senior Cup (3): 1949, 1953 and 1994{{cite web |title=Munster Senior Challenge Cup |url=https://www.munsterrugby.ie/domestic_news/munster-senior-challenge-cup-previous-winners-2/ |access-date=9 December 2024 |website=MunsterRugby.ie}}
- Munster Senior League (6): 1928, 1935, 1948, 1951, 1960 and 1993 (shared in 1999 with Old Crescent RFC){{cite web |title=Ireland Munster Senior Cup, Related Trophies |url=http://www.rugbyarchive.net/compsoverview/338 |access-date=9 December 2024 |website=The Rugby Archive}}
- Cork Charity Cup (12): 1927/1928, 1934/1935, 1953/1954, 1958/1959, 1980,1981, 1987/1988, 1988/1989, 1990/1991, 1994/1995, 1996/1997, 1997/1998 and 2000/2001{{cite web |title=Cork Charity Cup Winners |url=http://indigo.ie/~rugbyoa/WMS_Char_Cup.htm |access-date=9 December 2024 |website=Cork Charity Cup Winners}}
- Cork County Cup (1): 2023{{cite web |title=Sundays Well Win Cork Count Cup |url=https://www.munsterrugby.ie/domestic_news/club-notes-sundays-well-win-cork-county-cup/#:~:text=The%20latest%20edition%20of%20Club,back%2Dpitch%20at%20Musgrave%20Park. |access-date=9 December 2024 |website=Munster Rugby.ie}}
Notable former players
- Jim Buckley
- Conor Burke{{cite web |title=Club History |url=http://sundayswellrfc.com/club-history/ |website=Sundayswellrfc.com |access-date=9 December 2024}}
- Ken O'Connell
- David Corkery
- Pat O'Hara
- Denis Hurley{{fact|date=December 2024}}{{Cite web |date=2023-03-31 |title=AIL: Sunday's Well strike late to pip Midleton but relegation to junior looms large|url=https://www.echolive.ie/corksport/arid-41106874.html |access-date=2024-12-02 |website=echo live |language=en}}
- Ernie Keeffe
- John Lacey{{cite web|url = https://www.the42.ie/john-lacey-referee-retire-4331613-Nov2018/ | publisher = Journal Media | website = the42.ie | title = Irish referee Lacey to retire at the end of the season and take up new role with IRFU | date = 9 November 2018 | accessdate = 15 May 2019 }}
- Sean McCahill
- John O'Neill
- Rory Parata
- Donnacha Ryan
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
- {{Official website|http://www.sundayswellrfc.com/}}
{{AIB League}}
{{Sport in Cork City}}
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Category:Rugby clubs established in 1906
Category:Rugby union teams in Ireland
Category:Rugby union clubs in County Cork