Gerry Hardy | |
Full Name: | Gerald Gabriel Hardy |
Birth Date: | 29 March 1937 |
Birth Place: | Omeath, County Louth, Ireland |
Death Place: | Drogheda, County Louth, Ireland |
Position: | Fly-half |
Repyears1: | 1962 |
Repcaps1: | 1 |
Reppoints1: | 0 |
Gerald Gabriel Hardy (29 March 1937 — 27 October 1963) was an Irish international rugby union player.
Born in Omeath, County Louth, Hardy was the son of a businessman and younger brother of priest Michael Hardy, well known as a Louth GAA player in the 1940s.[1]
Hardy played his rugby for Bective Rangers and was capped once for Ireland, as a fly-half against Scotland at Lansdowne Road during the 1962 Five Nations, in partnership with 17-year old scrum-half John Quirke.[2]
In 1963, Hardy was one of six people killed in a car accident near Gormanston.[3] [4]