Donal Canniffe

Donal Martin Canniffe is an Irish former rugby union international.
Canniffe, the youngest son of Irish hurler Dan Canniffe, was raised in Cork.
A scrum-half, Canniffe played for Cork Constitution, Munster and Lansdowne. He was capped twice for Ireland [national rugby union team|Ireland] in the 1976 [Five Nations Championship] and was the reserve scrum-half to John Robbie on that year's 1976 [Ireland rugby union tour of New Zealand and Fiji|tour of New Zealand], during which he suffered a tour ending ankle injury. In 1978, he was captain of the Munster side that defeated the All Blacks at Thomond Park, then found out after the match that his father had collapsed at half-time and died.