Career
Begley played in the amateur Glasgow District side at Under 21 grade. Begley played for the amateur club Glasgow Academicals. When the Accies merged with Glasgow High Kelvinside to form the Glasgow Hawks in 1997, he then played for the Glasgow Hawks.
Foreign a short spell, Begley played for Old Belvedere Reconstruction Finance Corporation in Dublin, Ireland.
He was then picked for the Scottish Exiles district team After moving back from France, Begley played for Watsonians before moving back to Hawks.
Begley was back with the Glasgow Hawks in 2003 via a short spell back at Glasgow Academicals. His try for the Hawks clinched the British Telecom Premiership title for them in 2004 against Heriots.
Heriots had approached Begley to play for them in 1996.
The next year 2005 Hawks almost wrapped up the title against Heriots at Goldenacre with Begley again scoring a try. The 2006 title was almost made certain at Currie. Begley left Glasgow Hawks in 2006.
Begley played several times for the professional side Glasgow in Europe.
He played for the Scotland Under 19s and Scotland Under 21s and hoped for a call up to Scotland A.
He played for the French rugby clubs Lyon, Strasbourg and Brive. He also played rugby in London and Capetown.
The Capetown side was Hamilton Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Sea Point. Begley played for them in the nineties and then turned out for them as a guest player when Hamilton, Sea Point entered a Sevens team in the Melrose Sevens in 2011.
