Fiona O'Brien is an

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women's rugby Women's rugby union is a full contact team sport based on running with the ball in hand. The same laws are used in men's rugby union with the same sized pitch and same equipment. Rugby was originally a men's sport, and women's rugby has become p ...

player who received her first

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in the opening match of the 2015 Women's Six Nations against on 6 February. won, 30–5. O'Brien plays for

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and

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's women's teams.

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