Background
Nigel John Carr was born in Belfast on 27 July 1959.
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Nigel Carr
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Queen"s University Belfast.
Career
Senior Rugby Carr was renowned as one half of an extremely effective back-row duo along with Phillip Matthews. The played together at Regent House Grammar School, Queen"s University, Ards Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Ulster and Ireland in the late 1970s and into the 1980s. Matthews made his senior international debut against Scotland at Murrayfield on 2 February 1985 and was part of the Triple Crown winning side of 1985.
He was on the subsequent 1985 Japan tour.
Carr missed out on the inaugural 1987 Rugby World Cup because he was forced to prematurely end his career through injuries due to an Ireland Republican Army car-bomb. On 25 April 1987, Carr, David Irwin and Philip Rainey had set off for a training session in Dublin before the World Cup.
The three Ireland internationals were on the same stretch of road when the bomb exploded and although miraculously, they all escaped serious injury, the explosion ended Carr"s rugby career at just 27. Carr has been described as one of the best players to have pulled on the Irish jersey.
Carr, although he never toured with the Lions, did play for them against The Rest of the World in a one-off game in Cardiff in 1986.
He also played for the Barbarians. Career and Personal Doctor Nigel Carr currently produces and presents UTV sports programme, "Sport on Sunday".
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