Noel Fitzgerald McGrath was an Irish rugby union international who played once for Ireland during the 1933/34 season

1934 Home Nations Championship

The 1934 Home Nations Championship was the thirtieth series of the rugby union Home Nations Championship. Including the previous incarnations as the Five Nations, and prior to that, the Home Nations, this was the forty-seventh series of the northern hemisphere rugby union championship. Six matches...

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He was the eldest son of Sir Charles McGrath of Stanley Grange, Wakefield RFC

Wakefield RFC

Wakefield RFC was an English rugby union club, founded in 1901, and which dropped out of the English leagues in 2004 as a result of the effects of professionalism...

 and was educated at Stoneyhurst College, Leeds University and Oxford University where he gained a blue.

He played his club rugby for Wakefield

Wakefield RFC

Wakefield RFC was an English rugby union club, founded in 1901, and which dropped out of the English leagues in 2004 as a result of the effects of professionalism...

, Headingley and London Irish

London Irish

London Irish RFC is an English rugby union club based in Sunbury, Surrey, where the senior squad train, the youth teams and senior academy play home games, and the club maintain their administrative offices. The senior squad play home games at the Madejski Stadium in Reading and compete in the top...

and played 16 times for Yorkshire.

He made his only international appearance for Ireland in their 13-0 defeat to Wales at Swansea on 10 March 1934.

The Wakefield Express described him

"Stong, dashing player who goes in search of work and never appears to tire"