Andrew Daniel Clinch was an Irish

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 rugby union

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 forward who played club rugby for Dublin University

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 and international rugby for Ireland

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 and the British Isles

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Biography

Educated at Belvedere College S.J. Andrew Clinch represented Leinster and Ireland in a distinguished playing career and later became president of the Irish Rugby Football Union

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. His son, also named Andrew, also attended Belvedere College S.J. and was killed in the Second World War.