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would have been ferried straight from the exam hall to tantalise Ricky Poning on Bloomsday
in Clontarf. Instead, having sacriiced two months of his last year in school represening his
country so successfully on the sub-coninent, George has had to sit out that paricular challenge
in pursuit of obtaining ‘the Points’.
I only hope that this level headed young man understands the depth of the tradiion he has
inherited, not least that he is recognised down Ranelagh as the best let hand bowler the school
has produced since Nahor Meenan (1964).
David Ensor
Class of 1966
David Ensor was capped for Ireland in 1969 (the game prior to the encounter in Derry when the West
Indies were bowled out for 25 – see the remarks on Gerry Dufy by Jim Walsh) against an all white South
African Development XI whose presence in Rathmines was not overly appreciated by his fellow Gonzaga
middle order batsman the late John Feeney, so that when Ensor arrived at the wicket to play his irst
innings for his country he found the arrival of his irst ball delayed while An Garda Siochana struggled
to remove from the Square the prostrate Feeney and his fellow Trotskyites for the day, the pictures of
which adorned the front page of the Evening Herald that evening.
Spoted by Brendan Fox, a Phoenix grandee who lived beside the school and atended Mass each
morning there, he joined the school boys’ secion of that club in 1962 and went on to captain the 1st
XI to League and Cup success in 1978 (one of their ive successive cup wins between 1975 and 1979).
Between 1973 and 1986 he played 250 successive league and cup matches for the club winning 18
major itles during that period. In 2009 his fellow opening batsman Richard Bruton (1956-1966) became
President of Phoenix Cricket Club, the second Gonzaga man to become president of an Irish Senior Club
(the irst was Eddie Lewis (1970), at Merrion Cricket Club).
in Clontarf. Instead, having sacriiced two months of his last year in school represening his
country so successfully on the sub-coninent, George has had to sit out that paricular challenge
in pursuit of obtaining ‘the Points’.
I only hope that this level headed young man understands the depth of the tradiion he has
inherited, not least that he is recognised down Ranelagh as the best let hand bowler the school
has produced since Nahor Meenan (1964).
David Ensor
Class of 1966
David Ensor was capped for Ireland in 1969 (the game prior to the encounter in Derry when the West
Indies were bowled out for 25 – see the remarks on Gerry Dufy by Jim Walsh) against an all white South
African Development XI whose presence in Rathmines was not overly appreciated by his fellow Gonzaga
middle order batsman the late John Feeney, so that when Ensor arrived at the wicket to play his irst
innings for his country he found the arrival of his irst ball delayed while An Garda Siochana struggled
to remove from the Square the prostrate Feeney and his fellow Trotskyites for the day, the pictures of
which adorned the front page of the Evening Herald that evening.
Spoted by Brendan Fox, a Phoenix grandee who lived beside the school and atended Mass each
morning there, he joined the school boys’ secion of that club in 1962 and went on to captain the 1st
XI to League and Cup success in 1978 (one of their ive successive cup wins between 1975 and 1979).
Between 1973 and 1986 he played 250 successive league and cup matches for the club winning 18
major itles during that period. In 2009 his fellow opening batsman Richard Bruton (1956-1966) became
President of Phoenix Cricket Club, the second Gonzaga man to become president of an Irish Senior Club
(the irst was Eddie Lewis (1970), at Merrion Cricket Club).
