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Áine Marie O'Gorman (born 13 May 1989) is an Irish professional
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who plays for Women's National League club
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. At club level, O'Gorman began her senior career with Stella Maris, played for Peamount United and UCD Waves, and also spent two seasons with the English
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club
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in
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and
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. O'Gorman made her first appearance for the Republic of Ireland national team in March 2006 and collected her 100th
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in June 2018. After an 18-month period of retirement from international football, she returned to the national team in March 2020. In October 2022 she was in the Ireland team which beat
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at
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in the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification – UEFA play-offs, to qualify for the
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for the first time. A prolific forward at club level, O'Gorman has won the Women's National League top goalscorer award five times – including on three consecutive occasions from 2020 to 2022 – in her long association with Peamount United. She was also Women's National League Player of the Year in 2014–15. With the national team she has often been deployed as an attacking full-back. She has worked for
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as a football
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on their television and radio coverage.


Club career


Early career

O'Gorman played club football for Stella Maris, while attending sports scholarships at Sallynoggin College and
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. She was named in an Irish Colleges team which travelled to
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for two friendly matches in April 2009. She was also selected to represent
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, helping them to the 2009 interprovincial title. Having switched to Peamount United, O'Gorman struck a
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in the 2010
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final, as Peamount beat Salthill Devon 4–2 at
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. In her first, single-season spell with Peamount United O'Gorman also won the
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(DWSL) and DWSL Premier Cup, as the club secured a " treble". O'Gorman also played
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for
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and in September 2010 helped the club win the Wicklow Ladies Senior Football Championship, scoring four goals and two points in the final.


Doncaster Rovers Belles

O'Gorman signed for
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club
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in October 2010, after a successful trial. O'Gorman was given accommodation at the Ramada Jarvis hotel in
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, with other signings Kylla Sjoman and Maria Karlsson. She made her debut in Doncaster's 1–0
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win at Chelsea in March 2011. Finding the standard of play in England higher than she had been used to, O'Gorman admitted to some disappointment with her first season total of four goals. Despite this, her hard working style had endeared her to the South Yorkshire club's supporters. At the end of the
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season she returned to Peamount on
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ahead of the Irish club's
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tie with
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. Although she was increasingly tired of living in a hotel, O'Gorman returned to Doncaster Rovers Belles for the
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season. She was happy to be joined by compatriot Julie-Ann Russell who also signed. In September 2012 she marked her final game for the club with a 35-yard lobbed goal in The Belles' 3–2 defeat at title-winning
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.


Peamount United

O'Gorman scored in Peamount's 6–3 WNL Cup final win over Castlebar Celtic in May 2013, to help the club retain the trophy. In October
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, O'Gorman provided an assist for
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to score a celebrated goal in Peamount's win over Wexford Youths. Roche's goal eventually finished second in the
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, after it went
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on
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. "It was a great cross, wasn't it? It was all in the cross," O'Gorman later joked. In 2013–14 O'Gorman was named in the WNL Team of the Season, as Peamount were edged out in a close title race by Raheny United.


UCD Waves

Popular manager
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left Peamount for UCD Waves in 2014, and O'Gorman was one of several Peamount players to follow Gleeson to her new club. When UCD Waves lost the 2014
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final 2–1 to Raheny United in
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, O'Gorman celebrated her equalising goal by revealing a t-shirt with stricken team-mate
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's
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17 on it. She secured the 2014–15 Golden Boot when rival striker
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's club Raheny United received a
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in their final fixture at
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, who failed to muster a team. O'Gorman had already been named the WNL Player of the Season. In 2015–16, O'Gorman struck 17 goals to retain her Golden Boot title. She was also one of three nominees for Player of the Season, but lost out to UCD teammate Karen Duggan. UCD Waves were upset 1–0 by Cork City in the 2017 FAI Women's Cup final, but O'Gorman missed the occasion with a medial ligament injury.


Return to Peamount United

In December 2017, club captain O'Gorman left UCD to return to Peamount United. She declared: "I want to be successful and I want to win trophies. I want to be part of a good set-up and I think Peamount has the ingredients to be very successful." Peamount finished third in
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, but collected their first trophy for five years when O'Gorman scored in a 2–1 WNL Cup final win over Wexford Youths. In
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The Peas recaptured the League title for the first time since 2011–12. O'Gorman also played in Peamount's 2018 and
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FAI Women's Cup final defeats by Wexford Youths. In the delayed and shortened
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season O'Gorman showed good form, being named in the Team of the Season and winning the Golden Boot with 14 goals in 12 games as Peamount retained their WNL title. She also scored in the 2020 FAI Women's Cup Final as The Peas thrashed Cork City 6–0 at
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. Peamount were deposed as champions by Shelbourne on the final day of the
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season, but O'Gorman retained her Golden Boot award and place in the Team of the Season. In
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she was again in the Team of the Season and her 22 goals secured a third consecutive Golden Boot award, her fifth in total.


Shamrock Rovers

On 23 November 2022, O'Gorman departed Peamount. The following day, it was announced that O'Gorman would be joining Shamrock Rovers as their first new signing ahead of the 2023 season. She joined Shamrock Rovers on a
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basis, having previously been an amateur in her club career in Ireland. She hoped that training more often would protect her national team place. O'Gorman had been a longstanding proponent of the Women's National League becoming semi-professional.


International career


Youth

O'Gorman was capped by the
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at under-17 and under-19 level. At the FAI International Football Awards she was named 2006 Under-19 Women's International Player of the Year. She concluded her under-19 national team career in April 2008, with 14 goals in 30 appearances.


Senior

O'Gorman was called-up to the senior panel for the 2006 Algarve Cup and made her debut in Ireland's final match at the tournament: a 4–0 defeat by
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in Lagoa. She became established in the senior team as a 16-year-old and featured in Ireland's subsequent qualifying campaigns. In Ireland's final
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fixture against
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at the
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in
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, she was shown a
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for two bookable offences. When signing for Doncaster aged 21 in October 2010, O'Gorman had accrued 38 senior caps. In September 2012, O'Gorman reached a half century of appearances for Ireland, in a 2–0 EURO 2013 qualifying win over Israel at
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. National team
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Susan Ronan experimented by deploying versatile O'Gorman as a
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during the team's unsuccessful
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campaign. She continued to play further forward at club level: "I am happy to play right-back if I’m asked by Sue Ronan with the national team but I see myself as a striker". In May 2015, O'Gorman captained Ireland for the first time, in a daunting friendly away to world champions the
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. After the match had been arranged, it was discovered to be outside FIFA's designated dates for international matches, so regular captain
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was not released by her English club
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. Ireland took credit from their 3–0 defeat, with O'Gorman an "able marshall" in defence. In June 2016 O'Gorman scored a
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in Ireland's 9–0 win over
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. In April 2017, O'Gorman was among a delegation of 13 players who secured substantially improved working conditions for Ireland's female national team players, following a protracted dispute with the
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. O'Gorman collected her 100th
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in a 1–0 defeat by
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in Stavanger, which eliminated Ireland from
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. The match seemed to be O'Gorman's last in Ireland's colours, as she announced her retirement from international football in September 2018. Incoming
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persuaded O'Gorman to reverse her decision in February 2020, as she required cover for injured full-backs
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and Keeva Keenan. On 5 March 2020, O'Gorman returned to international football, playing in a 1–0 win against
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. O'Gorman remained in the team for Ireland's penultimate UEFA Women's Euro 2022 qualifier against
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in
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on 23 October 2020. She was disappointed when her
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contributed to a costly 1–0 defeat. In October 2022 O'Gorman was the only home-based player in the Ireland team which beat
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1–0 at
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in the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification – UEFA play-offs, to qualify for the
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for the first time. Her selection on the
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had been considered somewhat surprising, representing the first national team match she had started since November 2021. She was among the players to apologise for the team singing '' Celtic Symphony'' during post-match celebrations in the dressing room. With her appearance against Canada at the
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O'Gorman became the first active
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player to wear the green shirt at a World Cup. On 24 August 2023, Áine retired from international football after 17 years


Personal life

O'Gorman attended Loreto Secondary School in Bray. In November 2015, O'Gorman was employed as a
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and was engaging in charity fundraising. In 2021 she
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Rachel Neary, and their son James was born in July 2022. O'Gorman has worked for
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as a football
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on their television and radio coverage. In 2022 she used her position to speak publicly about
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and LGBT issues at the 2022 FIFA World Cup.


Career statistics

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Honours

Peamount United * Women's National League:
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,
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*
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: 2010,
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* Women's National League Cup: 2013, 2018 *
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: 2010 * DWSL Premier Cup: 2010 Individual *FAI Women's National League Top Goalscorer: 2014–15, 2015–16, 2020, 2021, 2022 *FAI Women's National League Player of the Season: 2014–15 *FAI Under-19 Women's International Player of the Year: 2006


References


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Áine O'Gorman
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