Full name | Daniel St James Bowen | ||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | (1957-02-11) 11 February 1957 (age 67) | ||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Cork, Ireland | ||||||||||||||||
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Daniel St James Bowen (born 11 February 1957) is an Irish former rugby union international.
Bowen was born and raised in Cork, attending Presentation Brothers College.
A winger, Bowen was capped three times for Ireland in the 1977 Five Nations Championship, aged 19 at the time of his debut against Wales. The following year, he was part of the Munster side that beat the touring All Blacks, with his line break setting up the game's only try. He had six knee operations during an injury plagued career, which was spent with Cork Constitution, Lansdowne, and St Mary's College.
See also
References
- "Five new caps for Irish RU". Huddersfield Daily Examiner. 3 January 1977.
- "Pres and Co lead crusade to stop Christians' march". Irish Independent. 22 January 2001.
- "Rugby captains on trial". Leicester Mercury. 15 January 1977.
- Lenihan, Donal (31 October 2018). "Oct 31, 1978: How privileged we were". Irish Examiner.
- Thornley, Gerry (24 October 1998). "History Makers: Munster's men who beat the All Blacks 12-0 on October 31st, 1978". The Irish Times.
External links
- Jimmy Bowen at ESPNscrum