Peter Bracken

Who is Peter Bracken?

Peter Bracken born 1 December 1977,Tullamore, County Offaly, Ireland is a professional rugby union prop.

In his formative rugby years he played for Tullamore RFC and also at St. Andrew's College, Dublin where he attended on Scholarship.

He started playing professionally in Ireland for Munster and then Connacht. In 2005 he moved to Englandto play for London Wasps. Whilst at Wasps, he won a Heineken Cup winners medal in 2007 and an Anglo-Welsh Cup winner in 2006. He joined Bristol Rugby in 2007 although injury limited the number of games he was able to play in the first season. Competition for places meant that he was released by Bristol in January 2009 and signed a short term contract for Harlequins for the rest of the 2008-2009 season.

Whilst at Connacht he also played for Galwegians RFC and on leaving Harlequins rejoined Galwegians. In October 2009 he joined Newport Gwent Dragons initially on a four month contract. Bracken is currently the coach of AIL Division 2B side Connemara RFC