John Lyons has assumed the office as 121st President of the Irish Rugby Football Union at the annual Council Meeting at the Ballsbridge Court Hotel in Dublin on Friday evening.
In being nominated to the highest office in Irish rugby, the well-known Dublin accountant, from Sandycove, County Dublin, enhances the proud record of the Bective Rangers club, who also provided IRFU Presidents John Hamilton O’Conor (1911/12), William G. Fallon (1949/50) and Michael Cuddy in the 1993/94 season.
Lyons, who is married to Bernadette, was Honorary Treasurer of the IRFU between 1996 and 2007, so he was the first treasurer in the professional era faced with a challenge never previously encountered by his predecessors.
