Tributes have been paid to former Ireland, Munster and Dolphin player Phil O’Callaghan, who has passed away at the age of 83.<\/p>\n
The Cork native won 21 caps for Ireland between 1967 and 1976, while he also representing Munster on 34 occasions.<\/p>\n
O\u2019Callaghan began his playing career with Dolphin at the age of 16 and he also went on to coach the side, as well as fellow Cork side Sundays Well.<\/p>\n
He was later inducted to the Munster Rugby Hall of Fame in 2016.<\/p>\n
Munster posted on social media: \u201cIt is with great sadness that Munster Rugby have learned of the passing of Phil O’Callaghan.<\/p>\n
\u201cA Dolphin RFC clubman, he made his Munster Senior Cup debut in 1961 having only taken up rugby the previous season and continued to play in the competition every year up until 1980.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe won 21 caps for his country between 1967 and 1976 and he was inducted into our Hall of Fame in 2016.<\/p>\n
\u201cAr dheis de go raibh a anam.\u201d<\/p>\n
The IRFU added: “Everyone at Irish Rugby is saddened to learn of the passing of Phil O’Callaghan.<\/p>\n
“We extend our sympathies to Phil’s family, friends and former team-mates at this sad time.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tributes have been paid to former Ireland, Munster and Dolphin player Phil O’Callaghan, who has passed away at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":665892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[54046,61,60,11897,43],"class_list":["post-665891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-irish-rugby","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-munster-rugby","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}