Wexford Wanderers RFC is an Irish

Ireland

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 rugby

Rugby union

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 team based in Wexford

Wexford

Wexford is the county town of County Wexford, Ireland. It is situated near the southeastern corner of Ireland, close to Rosslare Europort. The town is connected to Dublin via the M11/N11 National Primary Route, and the national rail network...

, County Wexford

County Wexford

County Wexford is a county in Ireland. It is part of the South-East Region and is also located in the province of Leinster. It is named after the town of Wexford. In pre-Norman times it was part of the Kingdom of Uí Cheinnselaig, whose capital was at Ferns. Wexford County Council is the local...

. They play in Division Three

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 of the Leinster League

Leinster League

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. The club colours are blue, white and black. In addition to the First XV and Second XV there are also youth sides from U7 to U19 as well as a women's side called the Vixens,with an under age girls section starting in sept 2011.

Current Leinster

Leinster Rugby

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 and Ireland

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 centre Gordon D'Arcy

Gordon D'Arcy

Gordon William D'Arcy is an Irish rugby player, more specifically an inside centre. He is registered to Lansdowne RFC and plays for provincial and RaboDirect Pro12 side Leinster.-Career:...

 played youth rugby at the club.

History

Although the club was only officially founded in 1924, there had been a Wanderers team prior to this.

Honours

• Leinster Towns Cup|Provincial Towns Cup: 1930
• Leinster Cup [under 12 ]2009;
• Popplewell Cup[under 12]2009; 2010
• Leinster premier league champions [under 13] 2011
• Leinster Cup [under13] 2011
• Leinster premier league cup [under 15] 2011
• Pat Lawlor Invitational [all ireland][under13] 2011

Famous Present and Past Players

• Gordon D'Arcy
  Gordon D'Arcy
  Gordon William D'Arcy is an Irish rugby player, more specifically an inside centre. He is registered to Lansdowne RFC and plays for provincial and RaboDirect Pro12 side Leinster.-Career:...
  
  

Shay Kelly replaced Jackie Kyle on the Ireland team in the fifties and went on to earn numerous caps for his country.Shay deserves to be counted in Wexford rugby and what about Freddie Doyle a Leinster junior player.

Ray Canning also played for Leinster while a member of Wexford Wanderers. He began
his rugby career at the age of sixteen as one of Nicky Furlongs second team and went on
to become one of Wexford Wanderers best players. He also was a Leinster and Wexford
County champion in running and high jump along with other track and field titles. He
moved to Dublin in 1961 and joined Bective Rangers

Bective Rangers

Bective Rangers is a rugby union club in Dublin, Ireland founded in 1881.The Club is affiliated to the Leinster Branch of the Irish Rugby Football Union and play in Division 2 of the All Ireland League....

, a prestigious Dublin club with
fixtures against top notch clubs like Cardiff, Northhampton, and Ebbw Vale. He won
a Leinster senior cup medal in 1962 being charged with marking Ireland star center
Kevin Flynn. Bective defeated the much favoured Wanderers F.C. 18 to 6 and Flynn was
scoreless.
In 1966 Canning joined New York Rugby Club

New York Rugby Club

The New York Rugby Club is a Rugby union Club in New York. It is the oldest rugby club in the United States, and fields Division I Men's and Women's teams, U-19 Boy's and U-19 Girls teams, two old boy teams, one of which belongs to the non-competitive "Golden Oldies"...

. He played a major part in the first USA
tour of South America in 1968 with New York Rugby club scoring a spectacular try in
the curtain raiser before the Argentina - Wales international. He joined in many tours of
Canada, Scandinavia, and the Caribbean Islands before moving to San Francisco where
he ended his rugby career and now lives.