Gerry McLoughlin

McLoughlin played club rugby for Shannon and Munster. He was part of the Munster team that beat the All Blacks 12 to 0 at Thomond Park in Limerick in 1978. He played for Ireland, scoring the defining try in their 1982 triple crown win, their first since 1949.^[2] He also went on the 1983 British and Irish Lions tour to New Zealand.^[3]

McLoughlin was elected to the Limerick City Council in 2004 as an independent but joined the Labour Party in 2006.^[2] In 2012 he was elected mayor of Limerick.^[4]

McLoughlin's daughter Orla was also elected to the Limerick City Council for the Labour Party in 2009, although she ran again in 2014, she was not reelected.^[5] His son Fionn is also a rugby player.