Timothy McGrath | |
Birth Date: | 3 October 1933 |
Birth Place: | Cork, Ireland |
Death Place: | Dungarvan, Ireland |
Position: | No. 8 |
Repyears1: | 1956–61 |
Repcaps1: | 7 |
Reppoints1: | 0 |
Timothy McGrath (3 October 1933 — 23 September 1978) was an Irish international rugby union player.
Born in Cork, McGrath played for Limerick club Garryowen and represented Munster.[1] [2]
McGrath, a forward, could play both in the second and back rows of the scrum. Injury prone, McGrath was capped seven times for Ireland in intermittent appearances between 1956 and 1961, utilised as a number eight. This included all matches of the 1960 Five Nations and the 1961 tour South Africa, where he played against the Springboks at Cape Town.[3]