Record

CodeDS/UK/3266
Dates1955-2010
Person NameBurns; Ian Jorge
SurnameBurns
ForenamesIan George 'Jorge'
EpithetIrish rugby union player and businessman
ActivityHalf-back, played for Wanderers, Leinster and Ireland (1980, 1 cap, 0 points). Burns played 26 seasons of cricket with the YMCA Cricket Club. As a businessman he was a partner at Gorman AGN, later RSM Robson Rhodes, chartered accountants and financial advisors. In 2008 Burns founded Airone, a short-lived low-cost airline in the Caribbean and in 2010 he launched REDjet, another low-cost airline based in the Caribbean which, like its predecessor, struggled in the face of inter-island bureaucracy..
Dates and PlacesBorn 7 December 1955, Dublin, Ireland, died 18 January 2014, Connemara, Ireland, aged 58.
Archive Catalogue
RefNoTitle
BML/1/7/16Big sheet and bundle, England versus Ireland, Twickenham, 19 January 1980
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