Meet the Team:

The company Directors - Mark, Trevor and Jim with..........

our friendly and knowledgeable staff - Tricia, Denise and Phil

Trevor Brennan

Trevor played for Barnhall, Bective Rangers, St Marys College RFC, Leinster Rugby, Stade Toulousain and Ireland. Trevor captained St Mary's College RFC to their only AIL League title in 2000. A very physical forward, he was a firm fans favourite throughout his career. After leaving Leinster for Stade Toulousain he subsequently went on to play in three back to back European Cup finals as part of the Stade Toulousain team, with two wins (Perpignan 2003, Stade Français 2004) and one defeat (against Wasps 2004) Trevor made his debut for Ireland against South Africa in 1998 and went on to make 13 test appearances (many felt he should have had many more caps), including the 1999 Rugby World Cup. Following retirement from professional rugby in 2007 Trevor and family have remained in Toulouse where he continues to own and run the De Danu Irish Sports Bar in Toulouse. In 2007 Trevor won the William Hill Irish Sports Book of the Year Award for his book Heart and Soul. The book, which was written with the assistance of Irish Times journalist Gerry Thornley, depicts Trevor from his time growing up in Leixlip and playing for Barnhall right through to his time at Toulouse where he won two European Cups before his eventual five-year ban from rugby following an altercation with an Ulster fan. In 2008 Trevor Brennan was part of the Ireland International Rules Football coaching staff in the International rules match series with Australia. Trevor is married with three children.

Mark Pinsent

Mark oversees the running of Trevor Brennan Rugby Tours. He is a Director 4U Hospitality which has provided rugby hospitality packages to the Irish market for eight years. This includes corporate hospitality packages for Six Nations and Autumn International matches plus travel and hospitality to Six Nation matches abroad, RWC 2007 and the Lions tour to South Africa 2009. He has a 2.1 BSc degree in Sports Management and played representative rugby until injury finished his rugby career.

Jim McGonigle

Jim is a very experienced travel expert. He set up Sportstours in 1986 to cater for the growing demand for travel to sporting events in the UK, Europe and worldwide. Commencing with Euro 88 when the Irish soccer team made their first breakthrough to European Finals, Sportstours has sent many thousands of fans to other finals including Italia 90, USA 94 and Japan and Korea in 2002. Sportstours is an officially appointed agent for Manchester United in Ireland and they also have guaranteed access to match tickets for Liverpool, Chelsea and Arsenal. Jim purchased Clondalkin Travel Centre in 1994. It is a vibrant high street travel agency offering a full range of travel services from airline tickets to package holidays.

Phil Grehan

Phil is very well known in the travel industry and has over 35 years experience in both the retail and tour operating sides of the industry. Her particular area of expertise is in travel to Australia and New Zealand where she has an in-depth knowledge of both countries. Phil books all our charter and scheduled flights and organises all passenger lists for the airlines.

Brent Pope

Brent heads our school, clubs and college tours and apart from his unbeatable knowledge of New Zealand he also has very strong links in Australia, South Africa, Argentina and Japan. Brent is best known in Ireland as a rugby journalist and pundit with RTE television. He played First Division, and Super 10 rugby with giants Canterbury and Otago, two of the leading rugby provinces in the world, Brent was coach of St Marys College RFC when they won the AIL League with Trevor Brennan as captain. With so much experience he knows the best places to tour and the best deals as far as flights, accommodation, internal travel etc. He also has excellent access to various top rugby schools, colleges and clubs.

Donal Treacy

Project Manager Donal is a Law Graduate and happens to be fluent in German! His passion though is rugby and he is a member of the Munster Association of Referees and togs out most weekends of the season. He has also coached rugby in both Germany and West Africa. Donal is responsible for organising all the details of our club, school and college tours. He is also a whizz at social media such as twitter, facebook, blogs etc!