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Battlefields to playing fields, medics with double lives

Brendan Gallagher continues his enthralling series by looking at the most impressive rugby doctors

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...RUGBY PLAYING DOCTORS NEXT WEEK Coaches
1. Thomas Crean (Ireland and Lions)
A genuine rugby superstar and medical hero on the battlefield. The rumbustious Ireland forward was the key man in two Championship-winning Ireland sides in the 1880s and was also the go-to forward when a combined Ireland and England team – now recognised as a Lions side – travelled to South Africa in 1896 and won the Test series 3-1. After leaving Clongowes Wood College, Crean trained as a doctor ...

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