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Mick Dawson is to step down as CEO of Leinster at the end of the season after 21 years in the role. Dawson is to become president of Lansdowne in their 150th anniversary next season, thereby maintaining a proud family tradition in which his brother Mark, father Jack and grandfather Michael were also past presidents of the club.
In his two decades at the helm of Leinster, Dawson has overseen an extraordinary evolution in the most successful period in the province’s 143-year history, overseeing their move from Donnybrook to the RDS while developing both grounds, and also their new high performance centre and offices in UCD.
Leinster have won four Heineken Champions Cups (2009, 2011, 2014 and 2018), the European Challenge Cup in 2013 and what is now the United Rugby Championship on eight occasions, as well as two British & Irish Cups and two Celtic Cups.
The province have been particularly successful in their appointment of coaches, notably Michael Cheika, Joe Schmidt, Leo Cullen and Stuart Lancaster, and have generally made astute player signings such as Isa Nacewa, Nathan Hines, Brad Thorn and many more.
Whereas Munster provided the core of the Irish side in the noughties, with their conveyor belt of talent through the academy, Leinster have also become bulk suppliers to Ireland in recent times. They have just been a supremely well run machine under his watch.
Dawson was educated at the Catholic University School and the College of Commerce, Rathmines and was appointed chief executive of the Leinster Branch IRFU in 2001 after 20 years with Davy Stockbrokers where he worked in the institutional government bonds department.
He played hooker for Lansdowne FC, whom he captained and coached at various levels for many years. He managed the Lansdowne 1st XV for three years and between 1998-2001 held the position of director of rugby. He has also represented Lansdowne on the First Division Clubs Association of the All-Ireland League.