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Maeve Óg O'Leary
Maeve Óg O'Leary (born 6 March 2000) is an Irish rugby union player. She plays for Blackrock College in the women's All-Ireland League, Munster in the IRFU Women's Interprovincial Series and Ireland internationally. O'Leary can play across the back-row. Early life and education O'Leary was born in Ballina, County Tipperary and attended St Anne's Community College, where she was first introduced to rugby union and, in 2015, helped form the schools first girls rugby team. As well as rugby, O'Leary also played camogie and softball, representing Ireland in the latter at two under-19 world championships and making her senior debut in 2019. O'Leary also played rugby for her home club Ballina-Killaloe RFC after they formed a girls team in 2015 too, playing first as a centre and fly-half, however, when O'Leary left school to attend Dublin City University and began playing college rugby and club rugby with Blackrock College, she began playing in the back-row. O'Leary studied for a m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ballina, County Tipperary
Ballina (historically ''Bellanaha''), from , is a census town that lies on the River Shannon in County Tipperary, Ireland. It is situated on the eastern shore of Lough Derg across from its 'twin-town' of Killaloe on the west bank of the lake. The towns are joined by Killaloe Bridge. The annual Brian Boru Festival takes place in early July each year. A joint celebration between the two towns of the ancient High King of Ireland, Brian Boru, it involves many community-based activities including a hurling match between the teams from both towns. Ballina has a primary school, Ballina National School, with the nearest secondary school, St. Anne's Community College, present in Killaloe. History Ballina was, along with Killaloe on the other bank, an important stopping point for barges traveling up the River Shannon. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, bargemen would pass through Ballina on their way to deliver goods to Dublin. However, this began to decline when train lines wer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ciara Griffin
Ciara Griffin (born 10 January 1994) is an Irish rugby union player from Ballymacelligott, County Kerry. She plays flanker for UL Bohemians and Munster and has captained Ireland since 2018, including the 2021 Women's Six Nations Championship. She works as a primary school teacher. Club career Griffin's father Denis is a stalwart of Castleisland Rugby Club and, at her behest, set up its first girls' team when she was 14. She moved to Tralee RFC for senior competition and joined All Ireland League club UL Bohemians at the start of the 2016/17 when she helped the Limerick side lift the Women's AIL for the first time since 2013, defeating holders Old Belvedere in the final. She first played for Munster at Under-18 level and made her provincial senior debut in 2012. International career Griffin had an inauspicious start to her senior international career. She unsuccessfully trialled twice for Ireland before getting called up to the national squad in 2015. She then broke her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ireland Women's International Rugby Union Players
Ireland (, ; ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe. Geopolitically, the island is divided between the Republic of Ireland (officially Names of the Irish state, named Irelanda sovereign state covering five-sixths of the island) and Northern Ireland (part of the United Kingdomcovering the remaining sixth). It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel (Great Britain and Ireland), North Channel, the Irish Sea, and St George's Channel. Ireland is the List of islands of the British Isles, second-largest island of the British Isles, the List of European islands by area, third-largest in Europe, and the List of islands by area, twentieth-largest in the world. As of 2022, the Irish population analysis, population of the entire island is just over 7 million, with 5.1 million in the Republic of Ireland and 1.9 million in Northern Ireland, ranking it the List of European islands by population, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Munster Rugby Women's Players
Munster ( or ) is the largest of the four provinces of Ireland, located in the south west of the island. In early Ireland, the Kingdom of Munster was one of the kingdoms of Gaelic Ireland ruled by a "king of over-kings" (). Following the Norman invasion of Ireland, the ancient kingdoms were shired into counties for administrative and judicial purposes. In later centuries, local government legislation has seen further sub-division of the historic counties. Munster has no official function for local government purposes. For the purposes of the ISO, the province is listed as one of the provincial sub-divisions of the State ( ISO 3166-2:IE) and coded as "IE-M". Geographically, Munster covers a total area of and has a population of 1,373,346, with the most populated city being Cork. Other significant urban centres in the province include Limerick and Waterford. History In the early centuries AD, Munster was the domain of the Iverni peoples and the Clanna Dedad familial line, l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
