Mike Ross is an Irish rugby union footballer who plays prop for Irish club Leinster and the Ireland national rugby team. A robust presence around the pitch and a top class scrummager, Mike Ross made his name playing in the Guinness Premiership in England for Harlequins. The former Cork Constitution player made the move from Munster and played for three years at the highest level in England. Since his move to Leinster he has featured in a number of Ireland squads and lined out for the Wolfhounds as well as making his debut for the National team on the 2009 Summer tour to Canada and the USA. Ross later went onto make his Six Nations debut in 2011 against Italy where he made an impressive start against the robust Italian scrummage, since then he has been an ever present the Ireland team sheet. His top class scrummaging was widely regarded as key to Leinster's Heineken Cup & Ireland's World Cup progression to the Quarter Final in 2011. 

December 21st, 1979 in Cork (Age 44)