Matt Hall
Welshman who gave Limerick a quarter of a century, in three jerseys and from both the floor and the bench.
Matt Hall.
Matt Hall pulled on a Limerick jersey for the first time in 2000 and never really put the club down. Over the next quarter of a century he played more than 280 games for the team across three of its names, from the Burger King and Lions years through to the UL Eagles. Few players anywhere stay loyal to one city for that long.
He won the big ones. Hall was part of the 2002 National Cup side and then the 2011-12 group that took both the league and the Cup in a single season, the greatest year in the club's history. He retired as a player in 2015 as Wales' most-capped international, a record built over many years in the green of his home country.
Retirement from playing was not the end. Hall came back as head coach for the 2018-19 season, when the club returned to Division One as UL Sport Eagles, and he led the senior team through to 2024. He then handed the reins to Niall McDermott, the coach who would take the Eagles to the 2025-26 double and promotion to the Super League. The pathway Hall steadied was ready for the next step.
Profile sources Limerick Sport Eagles club history (Club History page.md); Eagles_Verified_Facts.md (sections 6, 9).