Frank Byrne | |
Full Name: | Noel Francis Byrne |
Birth Date: | 18 December 1938 |
Birth Place: | Curragh, Kildare, Ireland |
Position: | Wing |
Repyears1: | 1962 |
Repcaps1: | 1 |
Reppoints1: | 0 |
Noel Francis Byrne (born 18 December 1938) is an Irish former international rugby union player.
Born in Curragh, County Kildare, Byrne is the younger brother of 1950s Ireland winger Seamus and played his early rugby with Naas.[1] He was a three-quarter and won his solitary Ireland cap while playing with University College Dublin, replacing an injured Niall Brophy for a 1962 Five Nations match against France in Paris.[2]
Byrne became a dentist in Bray.[3]