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Duncan Casey

Duncan Casey (born 14 November 1990) is a retired Irish rugby union player and current Irish Examiner columnist. He made 46 appearances for his native province Munster and 23 for French club FC Grenoble before finishing his career in 2019.

Duncan Casey
Date of birth (1990-11-14) 14 November 1990 (age 34)
Place of birthCork, Ireland
Height1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight105 kg (16.5 st; 231 lb)
SchoolGlenstal Abbey School
UniversityUniversity of Limerick
Rugby union career
Position(s) Hooker
Amateur team(s)
Years Team Apps (Points)
2010–2018 Shannon ()
Senior career
Years Team Apps (Points)
2013–2018 Munster 46 (25)
2018–2019 Grenoble 23 (5)
Correct as of 2 June 2019
International career
Years Team Apps (Points)
2010 Ireland U20 1 (0)
Correct as of 16 February 2014

Munster

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Casey graduated from the Munster Academy and secured a development contract with the senior Munster squad for the 2013–14 season.[1] He made his senior debut on 8 December 2013, coming on as a replacement against Perpignan during Round 3 of the 2013–14 Heineken Cup.[2] He made a total of 14 appearances for the province that season and featured in both the Heineken Cup Quarter-Final victory over Toulouse and the Semi-Final defeat to Toulon.[3][4]

He made his first European start in Munster's Champions Cup game against Sale Sharks on 18 October 2014.[5] He went on to start all six pool games in Munster's Champions Cup campaign and made 20 appearances that season, scoring five tries.[6] He attended an Irish training camp in December 2014 and won the 2015 Munster Rugby Young Player of the Year award in April 2015.[7][8]

After making his debut in 2013, Casey made 40 appearances for Munster in the following two years. However, his progress was derailed by injuries early on in consecutive seasons. He ruptured his pectoral muscle in the first round of the Champions Cup against Treviso in November 2015 and was sidelined for five months.[9] In the first round of the 2016-2017 Champions Cup against Glasgow the following year, he ruptured his medial cruciate ligament and required more surgery, putting him out of action for another five months.[10] He did not feature for Munster again before his departure.

Grenoble

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Casey left Munster in January 2018, having secured a contract at FC Grenoble as injury cover for the remainder of the season.[11] He extended his contract shortly after arriving and remained at Grenoble for the 2018–19 season.[12] Casey announced in April 2019 that he would retire from rugby at the end of the 2018–19 season.[13] He made a total of 23 appearances for Grenoble during his time in France.

Post-rugby

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Casey has been a columnist with the Irish Examiner since 2015.[14] He also hosted the Examiner's flagship rugby podcast between January and May 2020[15] and is a regular contributor to broadcasts such as Second Captains and Newstalk.[16][17][18][19] Casey has worked in communications in recent times and moved to Brussels in 2020. He worked in a public affairs consultancy and subsequently for the European Commission's Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development.[20] He stated on air in November 2022 that he and his wife Sorcha would be moving to Vancouver, Canada in January 2023.[21]

Other activities

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Casey has been vocal about a range of issues both during and after his rugby career. While at Munster, he was an Ambassador for the local branch of the Simon Community, a network of homelessness charities throughout Ireland.[22][23] He wrote several articles about the issue of homelessness in Limerick for the Limerick Leader newspaper.[24][25] In recognition of his work in this area, he won the Vodafone-sponsored Medal of Excellence at the 2018 Rugby Players Ireland Awards.[26]

Casey actively campaigned for a Yes vote in the 2015 Marriage Equality Referendum and was awarded the Outstanding Male Ally award by the International Federation of Gay Games in October of that year.[27][28] Casey is a long-time supporter of Palestinian rights and has written articles and appeared in videos that support the BDS movement.[29][30]

Honours

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Munster Rugby

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FC Grenoble

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References

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  1. ^ "Contract News". Munster Rugby. 3 April 2013. Archived from the original on 21 February 2019. Retrieved 11 May 2013.
  2. ^ "Munster Top Of Group After Bonus-Point Win". Munster Rugby. 8 December 2013. Retrieved 8 December 2013.
  3. ^ "Vintage Munster Storm Into Semis". Munster Rugby. Retrieved 13 November 2022.
  4. ^ "Toulon End Munster's European Campaign". Munster Rugby. Retrieved 13 November 2022.
  5. ^ "Keatley Kicks Munster On". Munster Rugby. 18 October 2014. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
  6. ^ "Duncan CASEY - Player statistics - It's rugby". www.itsrugby.co.uk. Retrieved 13 November 2022.
  7. ^ Twitter https://twitter.com/ciantracey1/status/547323292487397376. Retrieved 13 November 2022. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  8. ^ "Stander Scoops Player Of The Year Award". Munster Rugby. 30 April 2015. Archived from the original on 25 April 2019. Retrieved 30 April 2015.
  9. ^ "Irish Rugby | Mixed Injury News For Munster Hookers". Retrieved 13 November 2022.
  10. ^ Mcconnell, Jonathan (23 October 2016). "Squad Update". Munster Rugby. Retrieved 13 November 2022.
  11. ^ "Duncan Casey, Medical Joker". FC Grenoble Rugby. 29 January 2018. Retrieved 29 January 2018.
  12. ^ "Duncan Casey will be Grenoblois next season". FC Grenoble Rugby. 23 March 2018. Retrieved 28 April 2018.
  13. ^ "Ex-Munster man Casey to retire from 'the job every boy dreams of having' aged 28". The42. 22 April 2019. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
  14. ^ "IEC: Search". Irish Examiner. Retrieved 13 November 2022.
  15. ^ "Duncan & Duncan Podcast: 'I never looked upon him as the CEO. He was Garrett'". Irish Examiner. 17 February 2020. Retrieved 13 November 2022.
  16. ^ "Episode 2268: Lift Off For Lowry Lowe And Mack, Big Man Guff, Gazprom's Game, Arsenal Abides". Second Captains. 25 February 2022. Retrieved 13 November 2022.
  17. ^ "Episode 2308: The More Legs The Merrier For The Champions Cup, Munster Look Inwards For Answers, The Reverse Hogg". Second Captains. 12 April 2022. Retrieved 13 November 2022.
  18. ^ "Ex-Munster player says 'rugby is still a very safe sport for young people'". Newstalk. Retrieved 13 November 2022.
  19. ^ "Re-examining my playing Career Former Pro-Rugby Player on Concussion". Newstalk. Retrieved 13 November 2022.
  20. ^ Casey, Duncan. "Duncan Casey - LinkedIn profile". Retrieved 13 November 2022.
  21. ^ "Ex-Munster player says 'rugby is still a very safe sport for young people'". Newstalk. Retrieved 13 November 2022.
  22. ^ Lynch, Richard (20 May 2016). "PHOTOS – Mid West Simon Community A Musical Evening of Three". I Love Limerick. Retrieved 13 November 2022.
  23. ^ Lynch, Richard (20 May 2016). "Caseys Centra Support Mid West Simon Communnity". I Love Limerick. Retrieved 13 November 2022.
  24. ^ Casey, Duncan. "'One harrowing story after another' - life on Limerick's streets". www.limerickleader.ie. Retrieved 13 November 2022.
  25. ^ Casey, Duncan. "Limerick homeless crisis rolling steadily towards an epidemic". www.limerickleader.ie. Retrieved 13 November 2022.
  26. ^ "Earls Voted Players' Player Of The Year At Irish Rugby Awards". Munster Rugby. 16 May 2018. Retrieved 17 May 2018.
  27. ^ Rabbitts, Nick. "Limerick celebs back pro-marriage equality campaign". www.limerickleader.ie. Retrieved 13 November 2022.
  28. ^ "Jock Talk: Limerick meeting brings no resolution to Gay Games mess". Bay Area Reporter. Retrieved 13 November 2022.
  29. ^ Casey, Duncan (8 June 2020). "Opinion: There really is no excuse for a new Government not to pass the Occupied Territories Bill". TheJournal.ie. Retrieved 13 November 2022.
  30. ^ Rugby player Duncan Casey joins calls to Boycott Puma, retrieved 13 November 2022
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