Full name | Colm Christopher Tucker | ||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 22 September 1952 | ||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Limerick, Ireland | ||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 11 January 2012 | (aged 59)||||||||||||||||
Height | 186 cm (6 ft 1 in) | ||||||||||||||||
Weight | 99 kg (15 st 8 lb) | ||||||||||||||||
School | St. Munchin's College | ||||||||||||||||
Rugby union career | |||||||||||||||||
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Position(s) | Flanker | ||
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National team(s) | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Points) |
1979–1980 1980 |
Ireland British & Irish Lions |
3 2 |
(0) (0) |
Colm Tucker (22 September 1952 – 11 January 2012) was an Ireland international rugby union player. He toured South Africa in 1980 with the British Lions during a period when at club level he was representing Shannon RFC. Tucker was educated at St. Munchin's College in Limerick.
Colm Tucker had the ‘misfortune’ to have his surname misprinted in the programme for the international against France in Paris in 1980.
Tucker's death was announced in January 2012. He was 59.