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GONZAGA AT SIXTY: A WORK IN PROGRESS
JCT, 1961-62
to strength. It was with great pride that I atended the (now former) Lansdowne Road in 1989 to
watch Gonzaga play the Junior Cup inal.
Ahead of me in the school when I arrived were Barry Bresnihan, (who died in July of this
year) Peter Sutherland and Garet Sheehan, players whom I remember well watching, and who
all became so disinguished later in their chosen careers.
I also remember our primiive changing faciliies beside ‘the Courtyard’. We actually togged
out in the lunch-room (I can sill recall the smell of stale sandwiches) and then had to run wearing
metal studs on the tarmacadam past the cycle shed some three or four hundred yards before we
atually reached the pitches. All wonderful memories!
Recently I had the opportunity to visit the school and inspect the wonderful new faciliies. It
is not only in rugby that Gonzaga has come along way since I took, in 1957, my irst tentaive steps
up the avenue to be greeted by Fr ‘The Don’ O’Conor standing outside the orchard distribuing
apples to the early arrivals.
Anthony Ensor
Class of 1968
Details of Anthony Ensor’s career are included in the list of the school’s rugby honour.s
Pictured below, c.1962 Gonzaga v Crescent College SJ, Limerick
GONZAGA AT SIXTY: A WORK IN PROGRESS
JCT, 1961-62
to strength. It was with great pride that I atended the (now former) Lansdowne Road in 1989 to
watch Gonzaga play the Junior Cup inal.
Ahead of me in the school when I arrived were Barry Bresnihan, (who died in July of this
year) Peter Sutherland and Garet Sheehan, players whom I remember well watching, and who
all became so disinguished later in their chosen careers.
I also remember our primiive changing faciliies beside ‘the Courtyard’. We actually togged
out in the lunch-room (I can sill recall the smell of stale sandwiches) and then had to run wearing
metal studs on the tarmacadam past the cycle shed some three or four hundred yards before we
atually reached the pitches. All wonderful memories!
Recently I had the opportunity to visit the school and inspect the wonderful new faciliies. It
is not only in rugby that Gonzaga has come along way since I took, in 1957, my irst tentaive steps
up the avenue to be greeted by Fr ‘The Don’ O’Conor standing outside the orchard distribuing
apples to the early arrivals.
Anthony Ensor
Class of 1968
Details of Anthony Ensor’s career are included in the list of the school’s rugby honour.s
Pictured below, c.1962 Gonzaga v Crescent College SJ, Limerick
