South Side Irish Rugby Football Club
Established 1975 We are a member of the Chicago Area Rugby Football Union and the Midwest Union.
The South Side Irish was founded by Gene Moriarity in 1975 in the Beverly neighborhood along with the Kennelly Brothers Art, Joe and Kevin. Our club is a social and athletic organization which has grown from the initial 15 players to a club with thousands of past and current members. Highlights include a second place finish in Division 2 Nationals in 2002, fifth place in Division 2 Nationals in 2004 and fifth place in Division 1 National Championships in 2006.
02/07/2026
Unfortunately Whiskey Tens will be cancelled this year we will be shifting all focus to our nationals run and towards the Chicago Cup. Thank you to all the teams that registered to Whiskey Tens, we look forward to seeing you come out next year for the tournament!
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01/14/2026
The return of whiskey tend to the southside is underway! That’s right your read that correct we are hosting our whiskey tens again this year on Feb 28th which will be held at Gaelic Park, we have both men’s and women’s divisions lined up and have some teams signed on. We are still looking for more teams to fill the brackets out if you or your team is interested please reach out to us in our dms! We are looking for both men’s and women’s teams!
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12/25/2025
Merry Christmas from the Irish to you!
12/17/2025
Here are your awards for the season, we presented D2 MVP & BOTY to , D2 FOTY to Tj Lunney, and D2 ROTY to . On the other side our D4 MVP & BOTY is , D4 FOTY is Ed Waz, and D4 ROTY is Andrew Anaya. Congrats again and congrats to all the boys who played this season, who were at every practice, every game, and who supported the team through out not only this season but seasons pasts too.
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12/09/2025
This past weekend we had our 50th anniversary banquet where we handed out D4/D2 best forward, back, roty and more. We had a blast and thank you to everyone for coming out and celebrating with us and finishing our 50th year as club off properly. See you all in the spring!
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First try and kick of our finals match!
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Big scrum from the Irish at championship!
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11/27/2025
Happy thanksgiving from the Irish family to yours!
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run from a different pov that helped setup a try for the Irish.
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Another try from our finals match that helped add on to the Irish’s score, some nice hands and passing from to leads to a try!
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Michael Lynch try to help add to the Irish’s score this past weekend.
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11/19/2025
Rd 1 of the playoff merch has just dropped you can find this on the Midwest Rugby Union web-store under the new championship merch section. When you buy a piece of the champions apparel part of the profit will go towards us to help support our nationals run. So buy up and help the Irish take on nationals this spring!
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