Brittany Hogan (born 19 September 1998) is an Irish rugby player from

Killinchy Killinchy () is a townland and small village in County Down, Northern Ireland. It is two miles inland from the western shores of Strangford Lough in the Borough of Ards and North Down. It is situated in the townland of the same name, the civil p ...

, Co Down. She plays for

Old Belvedere Old Belvedere R.F.C. is a senior Irish rugby union club based on Anglesea Road in Ballsbridge, Dublin, Ireland. Old Belvedere was originally founded in 1918–19 by former pupils of Belvedere College. Old Belvedere enters senior men's teams in ...

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, the

Ireland women's national rugby union team The Ireland women's national rugby union team represents Ireland in international women's rugby union competitions such as the Women's Six Nations Championship and the Women's Rugby World Cup. They have also represented Ireland in the FIRA ...

and the

Ireland women's national rugby sevens team The Ireland women's national rugby sevens team participates in international competitions such as the World Rugby Women's Sevens Series, the Rugby World Cup Sevens, the Rugby Europe Women's Sevens and Rugby sevens at the Summer Olympics. Unlike t ...

. She graduated from DCU with a First class honours in sports science and health in February 2022.

Club career

Hogan began playing rugby in her local club,

Ballynahinch RFC Ballynahinch Rugby Club is an Irish rugby union club based in the County Down town of Ballynahinch. Founded in 1954, the club is affiliated to the Ulster Branch of the Irish Rugby Football Union. The first team plays Senior rugby union in the ...

, at the age of 16. She has been capped by Ulster at all age grades and was part of the Ulster team that won the first Ireland U18 Interprovincial Series in 2016. She played one season with

Cooke RFC Cooke Rugby Football Club, which was founded in 1910, is the oldest junior rugby club in Belfast, Northern Ireland. They currently field 3 Senior Men's teams, the 1st XV playing in Ulster Rugby Championship, Qualifying 1, and a successful Women's ...

and, when she moved to Dublin to study in 2018, joined All-Ireland League club Old Belvedere RFC. She was named Ulster women's player of the year for the 2023–24 season in the 2024 Ulster Rugby Awards.

International career

Hogan got a professional contract with Irish Rugby Union's Sevens programme in August 2017 and made her debut in the

World Rugby Sevens Series The SVNS, known as the HSBC SVNS for sponsorship reasons, is an annual series of international rugby sevens tournaments run by World Rugby featuring national sevens teams. Organised for the first time in the 1999–2000 season as the IRB World ...

in Dubai in 2018, scoring a try against New Zealand on her first day on the series. She debuted for the Ireland women's VXs in October 2020, as a replacement against Italy, in the final game of the 2020 Women's Six Nations. In the

2021 Women's Six Nations The 2021 Women's Six Nations Championship was the 20th series of the Women's Six Nations Championship, an annual women's rugby union competition featuring England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales. The format for the 2021 tournament w ...

she was a replacement against Wales and England and got her first Test start in the third-place playoff against Italy which Ireland won 25-5. In the 2022 TikTok Women’s Six Nations Championship she started at number 8 against both Wales and France. Brittany earned her 10th cap against Italy where Ireland won 29-08. She was selected for the

for the 2021-2022 season. She is a regular member of the World Series 7s squad and was a part of the history making team in Seville 2022, achieving 2nd place. She was named in Ireland's XVs side for the

2025 Six Nations Championship The 2025 Men's Six Nations Championship (known as the Guinness Men's Six Nations for sponsorship reasons and branded as M6N) was a rugby union competition that took place from late January to mid-March 2025, featuring the men's national teams of E ...

in March.

Personal life

Hogan graduated

Dublin City University Dublin City University (abbreviated as DCU) () is a Third-level education in the Republic of Ireland, university based on the Northside, Dublin, Northside of Dublin, Republic of Ireland, Ireland. Created as the ''National Institute for Highe ...

with a First class honours in sports science and health in 2022. She is a qualified Level 1 and 2 coach in rugby and hockey. Hogan is a ‘Tackle Your Feelings’ Campaign Ambassador in collaboration with Rugby Players Ireland and a mental health advocate. Before specialising in rugby Hogan played hockey with North Down Hockey club and her school, Down High School, where she was also Head Girl. Hogan played

ladies gaelic football Ladies' Gaelic football () is an Irish team sport for women. It is the women's equivalent of Gaelic football. Ladies' football is organised by the Ladies' Gaelic Football Association. Two teams of 15 players kick or hand-pass a round ball towar ...

for the RGU club and captained the Down U14

team.

References

External links

Irish Rugby Profile
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