CYM RFC is an Irish rugby

Rugby union in Ireland

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 team based in Terenure

Terenure

Terenure is a mainly residential suburb of Dublin, Ireland, largely in the administrative area of Dublin City Council but with parts in the administrative county of South Dublin County .-Location and transport:...

, Dublin. They play in Division Two

Leinster League Division Two

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 of the Leinster League

Leinster League

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. The club colours are green, purple and white. In addition to rugby, the club also runs among others tennis, bowls

Bowls

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, table tennis, cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

and football sections.

History

The club was founded in 1924 by eight members of the Catholic Young Men's Society. Later that year saw the acquisition of St. Mary's, the club's headquarters, which is still in use. In the spring of 1925 the first CYM side took the field changed in stables, accompanied by a horse used for cutting grass and rolling the field.

Motto

In 2009, as part of their new playing kit, the English Rugby Union team incorporated the team's Latin motto into the design of their New Jersey. This motto rugbeia floreat ubique, (meaning 'let rugby flourish everywhere'), led to CYM adopting a new club motto, Rugbeia tunc sextarii (meaning 'Rugby, then pints'). Having no coat-of-arms and no reference to any past history, this motto was seen to embody the 'spirit' of CYM's playing style.

Notable officials

• E.J. Daly, President of the IRFU Leinster Branch 1952/53
• Eddie Egan, President of the IRFU Leinster Branch 1982/83