ru_clubcaps ru_proclubs ru_nationalcaps birth_date ru_nationalyears university ru_nationalteam ru_nationalpoints image ru_position other name school ru_currentposition birth_place height ru_clubpoints ru_amateurclubs ru_clubyears ru_ntupdate weight ru_clubupdate article_title birth_name
58 25 53 6 55 munster leicester tigers harlequins wasps → london irish -lrb- loan -rrb- 14 5 7 may 1980 1999-2007 2001 -07 university of limerick ireland a ireland -lrb- 109 -rrb- -lrb- 21 -rrb- jeremy staunton -lrb- cropped -rrb- . jpg fly-half yes jeremy staunton st munchin 's college fly-half limerick , ireland 1.85 -lrb- -lrb- 21 -rrb- -lrb- 328 -rrb- 354 -rrb- -lrb- 212 -rrb- -lrb- 184 -rrb- garryowen 1999 -- 2004 2004-2005 2005 -2009 2007 2009-2012 2 june 2007 95 kg stlb 9 march 2012 jeremy staunton
 jeremy staunton
jeremy staunton

jeremy staunton -lrb- born 7 may 1980 -rrb- is an irish rugby union fly-half , having retired in 2012 while playing for english club leicester tigers in the top level of english rugby , the english premiership .
he has also played at every level for ireland .
he was educated at st munchin 's college limerick and university of limerick .
staunton began his rugby career with his local team galbally rfc in co. limerick , ireland .
later , he played for garryowen football club in the all-ireland league before earning a contract with munster in 1999 , at the age of 19 .
he enjoyed five successful seasons with munster , playing in both the fly-half and full back positions , helping munster to win the celtic league in february 2002 .
seeing his opportunities limited behind ronan o'gara he joined harlequins in the summer of 2004 before moving on to london wasps in the summer of 2005 .
he was part of the wasps side that won the powergen anglo-welsh cup in 2006 , the heineken cup in 2007 and the english premiership in 2008 , beating leicester .
he then joined leicester in the summer of 2009 where he proved a very successful signing and helped to win two further aviva premiership titles for the club as well as the lv cup in march 2012 shortly before his retirement .
staunton earned his first irish cap on 11 november 2001 against samoa , scoring a try on his debut international appearance .
he earned a further two caps on the irish tour to japan in 2005 and also toured new zealand and australia with ireland in june 2006 , earning another cap .
in june 2007 , prior to the rugby world cup , he started at fly-half for ireland on their tour of argentina .
