Denis Tierney
| Full name | Denis Finbarr Tierney | ||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 6 November 1914 Cork, Ireland | ||||||||||||||||
| Died | 6 June 1970 (aged 55) Peterborough, England | ||||||||||||||||
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Denis Finbarr Tierney (6 November 1914 – 6 June 1970) was an Irish international rugby union player.
Tierney was a native of Cork and attended University College Cork, where in addition to rugby he competed in varsity boxing. He played his rugby as a forward and was capped three times for Ireland in the late 1930s.
A doctor, Tierney joined the Jewish Hospital in Manchester as a resident surgical officer during World War II. He practised medicine in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire.