ru_nationalteam death_date death_place ru_coachclubs birth_place university ru_nationalcaps article_title name birth_date nickname ru_nationalpoints ru_coachyears ru_position other birth_name ru_nationalyears occupation
ireland british and irish lions 11 may 2004 county tyrone , northern ireland leinster ireland british and irish lions castleisland , county kerry , ireland university college dublin , cambridge university , edinburgh university 20 1 mick doyle -lrb- rugby union -rrb-
 mick doyle october 13 , 1941 doyler -lrb- 6 -rrb- -lrb- 0 -rrb- 1979 -- 1983 1984 -- 1987 1986 flanker yes michael gerard doyle 1965 -- 1968 1967 vet
mick doyle -lrb- rugby union -rrb-

mick doyle -lrb- october 13 , 1941 -- may 11 , 2004 -rrb- was an irish rugby union international player and coach .
doyle was born in castleisland , county kerry , and began playing rugby union at newbridge college , county kildare .
he went on to study veterinary science at university college dublin , who he also represented at rugby .
he made his ireland debut against france on january 23 , 1965 , scoring a try in the game .
while representing ireland he also studied at cambridge university where he gained a blue in the 1965 varsity match against the oxford university rfc .
doyle also studied at edinburgh university and played club rugby for edinburgh wanderers before returning to ireland .
he went on to earn the distinction of never being dropped during his 20-cap international career as a flanker .
doyler , as he was affectionately known , scored the winning try against wales in 1967 , toured australia with ireland in 1967 and south africa with the british lions the next year .
his last game for ireland was against australia in october 1968 , when he lined out alongside his brother tommy .
he coached leinster to interprovincial championship success five times between 1979 and 1983 before he succeeded willie john mcbride as ireland coach during the 1984 -- 85 season .
under doyle 's stewardship , ireland , in 1985 won the triple crown and five nations championship .
he led ireland to the inaugural 1987 rugby world cup , but that joy was tinged with sadness as he suffered a heart attack at the opening dinner .
he battled illness and adversity and his recovery from a brain problem was chronicled in his book ' 0.16 ' .
in latter years , apart from working in his veterinary practice , he was a regular contributor to rugby matters on rtÉ radio one .
mick doyle was killed in a car crash in dungannon on 11 may 2004 .
