Des O'Reilly (19 November 1954 – 7 March 2016) was an Australian

rugby league Rugby league football, commonly known as just rugby league and sometimes football, footy, rugby or league, is a full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field measuring 68 metres (75 yards) wide and 112 ...

footballer who made 127 appearances for the

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from 1975 to 1982, and then 13 appearances for

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from 1983 to 1985. O'Reilly died on the morning of 7 March 2016 after a long illness.Daily Telegraph, Sydney. Death Notice 10 March 2016

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