{{Short description|Rugby union player from Northern Ireland}} {{Infobox rugby biography | name = Charlie Murtagh | image = | caption = | full_name = Charles William Murtagh | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1949|08|30|df=y}} | birth_place = Lurgan, Co. Armagh,<br />Northern Ireland | death_date = | death_place = | height = 6 ft 4 in | weight = | occupation = | school = | university = | relatives = | position = Lock | repyears1 = 1977 | repteam1 = {{nrut|Ireland}} | repcaps1 = 1 | reppoints1 = 0 }} '''Charles William Murtagh''' (born 30 August 1949) is a former Ireland rugby union international from Northern Ireland.<ref>{{cite news |title=Murtagh on a birthday comeback |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0005119/19840830/210/0012 |work=Belfast News-Letter |date=30 August 1984}}</ref>
Born in Lurgan, Murtagh was a lock who played for Dungannon, Portadown and Ulster. He gained his only Ireland cap in a match against Scotland at Murrayfield during the 1977 Five Nations Championship.<ref>{{cite news |title=Charlie Murtagh back in Ulster team for Galway |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0005119/19771102/277/0014 |work=Belfast News-Letter |date=2 November 1977}}</ref>
Murtagh coached Portadown in the late 1980s.<ref>{{cite news |title='Derby' clash will be a bit special |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002341/19890122/356/0048 |work=Sunday Life |date=22 January 1989}}</ref>
==See also== *List of Ireland national rugby union players
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{ESPNscrum|8667}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Murtagh, Charlie}} Category:1949 births Category:Living people Category:Irish rugby union players Category:Ireland international rugby union players Category:Ulster Rugby players Category:Dungannon RFC players Category:Rugby union locks Category:Rugby union players from County Armagh Category:Sportspeople from Lurgan