Guy Easterby is a former rugby union

Rugby union

Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...

 player for Ireland

Ireland national rugby union team

The Ireland national rugby union team represents the island of Ireland in rugby union. The team competes annually in the Six Nations Championship and every four years in the Rugby World Cup, where they reached the quarter-final stage in all but two competitions The Ireland national rugby union...

. He is currently team manager of Leinster

Leinster Rugby

Leinster Rugby, usually referred to simply as Leinster, is an Irish professional rugby union team based in Dublin, representing the Irish province of Leinster, that competes in the RaboDirect Pro 12 and also competes in the Heineken Cup...

 alongside head coach Josef Schmidt

Josef Schmidt (rugby union)

Josef Schmidt is a New Zealand rugby union coach. Schmidt coached the New Zealand Schools Rugby Team before coaching Bay of Plenty Rugby Union from 2003–2004. While at the Steamers he won the Ranfurly Shield defeating Auckland on August 15, 2004 The Steamers had one successful defence of the title...

.

His father is English

England

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 and his mother Irish

Ireland

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. He is the brother of Simon Easterby

Simon Easterby

Simon Easterby is an English-born Irish rugby union footballer. He plays for Scarlets, for whom he is a player-coach, and is a recently retired Ireland international. His regular position is at blindside flanker, but he is equally adept on the openside.-Early life:Easterby's father is English and...

, also an Ireland international.

Easterby made his senior Ireland debut against the United States

United States national rugby union team

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 on June 10 2000

2000 Ireland rugby union tour of The Americas

2000 Ireland rugby union tour of the Americas. The 2000 Ireland national rugby union team summer tour saw them play three Test matches against Argentina, the United States and Canada. The touring party included two sets of brothers - Simon and Guy Easterby and David and Paul Wallace . The second...

 and marked the occasion by scoring two tries in an 83–3 victory.
Easterby made his test debut in the same year as Peter Stringer

Peter Stringer

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 but has always trailed the Munster

Munster Rugby

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 scrum-half in the Irish pecking order. 21 out of his 27 appearances before the 2005 Six Nations Championship

2005 Six Nations Championship

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 were made as a substitute. He enjoyed a stint with London Scottish then Rotherham in the English Premiership and with Leinster in Ireland. He retired after the 2006/2007 season however made his comeback against Edinburgh Rugby on the 15 December 2007