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Place of Birth: Galway, Connacht, Ireland
About Eric Elwood
- Eric Elwood is a former Irish rugby union player from Galway.
- He played as a fly-half.
- He played for Ireland internationally, and provincially for Connacht.
- He split his club career between hometown club Galwegians and Lansdowne in Dublin, starting and finishing his career in Galway, with a stint playing with Lansdowne in the 1990s.
- Elwood earned 35 caps for Ireland, scoring 296 points for the side.
- He played 168 games for Connacht scoring 1,038 points.
- He was the first Connacht player to make 100 appearances for the side, while his points tally is still the greatest ever recorded for the team.
- Elwood also made a single appearance for international invitational side the Barbarians before being capped by Ireland. After retiring from playing, Elwood went into coaching.
- He served as assistant coach for Connacht and then as coach of the Ireland under-20 side, where he won a Grand Slam in 2007.
- In 2010, he became head coach of Connacht and led the team to the Heineken Cup for the first time.
- He held this position until his decision to resign at the end of the 2012–13 season.
- He has since taken a variety of roles within the provincial set up, taking the role of Domestic Rugby Manager in 2015.
- Elwood returned to first team coaching in 2016 when he became kicking coach.
- In 2017, he moved roles again when he was appointed head of the Connacht Academy.
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