Gillian Bourke (born 28 August 1984) is a female

rugby union Rugby union, commonly known simply as rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in the first half of the 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand. In it ...

player. She represented at the 2010 and

2014 Women's Rugby World Cup The 2014 Women's Rugby World Cup was the seventh edition of the Women's Rugby World Cup, and the sixth held in Europe. The World Cup Final took place on 17 August. All of the pool games for the World Cup took place at the Centre National du R ...

, where she was voted the Number 2 position in the WRWC Team of the Tournament. She has 51 caps for Ireland, playing from 2008 to 2015, winning the Six Nations Grand Slam in 2013, and the Six Nations Championship in 2015. She was also invited to play with the legendary Barbarians team in February 2018 against the British Army, and again in April 2019 against the USA Women's National team in Denver, Colorado. She was voted Munster Women's Player of the Year for the 2017-18 season. In August 2019, she moved from her club Stade Francais in Paris to join Tyrrell's Premier 15s giants Harlequins. Bourke studied Sport Science at the

University of Limerick The University of Limerick (UL) ( ga, Ollscoil Luimnigh) is a public research university institution in Limerick, Ireland. Founded in 1972 as the National Institute for Higher Education, Limerick, it became a university in 1989 in accordance w ...

. She is a performance analyst. She works as a Game Analyst with World Rugby.

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Irish Rugby Player Profile
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