Dr. Noëlle Healy is a senior Dublin ladies' footballer. She was a member of the Dublin teams that won the

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. She captained Dublin in the 2016 final and was named Player of the Match following the 2017 final. In 2017 she was also named the TG4 Senior Player's Player of the Year. She was the first Dublin player to win the award. She was also a member of the Dublin team that won the 2018 Ladies' National Football League and in the same year collected her fourth

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award.

Early years, family and education

Healy was born in

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but is from

Castleknock Castleknock () is an affluent village in County Dublin, Ireland, located west of the centre of Dublin city. It is in the modern county of Fingal. In addition to the village, the name "Castleknock" also refers to older units of land division: a ...

. She was educated at Loreto College on St Stephen's Green and represented the school at

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. She made her first trip to

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in 2002, when her father brought her to see the 2002 All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship final. Between 2009 and 2015 she attended

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on a sports scholarship and studied medicine.

Career

In 2015, Healy qualified as a doctor. She specialises in anaesthesia. She has trained and worked at various

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hospitals including St. Vincent's University Hospital, the Mater, Beaumont Hospital and Holles Street Hospital. On 24 December 2018, while working at

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, Healy responded on

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to a comment earlier made by the

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. Varadkar had suggested that nurses, doctors and healthcare workers in

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s should not take holidays during the

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/ New Year period. Healy tweeted "Three 24 hour shifts in 6 days and 2 in the last three. It cool if I take a day or two off to celebrate Christmas with my fam". In 2019 Healy began working at

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Playing career

Clubs

;St Brigid's Healy began playing Gaelic football when she was nine. She initially played informally on the green in front of her house before asking her mother to take to her local

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club, St Brigid's. Between 2015 and 2018, Healy played in three

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finals for St Brigid's. ;UCD Between 2009 and 2015, while attending

on a sports scholarship, Healy also played for

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in the O'Connor Cup. ;Mourneabbey In March 2019, after her job as a doctor saw her transfer to

, Healy switched from St Brigid's to Mourneabbey.

Inter-county

Together with Niamh McEvoy,

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and Hannah Tyrrell, Healy was part of a generation of

ladies' footballers who won All-Ireland titles at under-14, under-16 and under-18 levels before playing for the senior team. Healy began playing for the senior team in 2007 at the age of 16. She was a member of the Dublin team that won the 2010 All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship final. Heally was a regular in the Dublin team during the 2010s, finishing as an

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runner-up in

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and

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. She captained Dublin in the 2016 final. She was subsequently a member of the Dublin teams that won the

, and

All-Ireland finals. In 2017, after she was named Player of the Match in the 2017 final, she was also named the TG4 Senior Player's Player of the Year. She was the first Dublin player to win the award. She was also a member of the Dublin team that won the 2018 Ladies' National Football League. In 2018 Healy collected her fourth

award.

Honours

;

**''Winners'':

: 5 **''Runner up'':

: 3 * Ladies' National Football League **

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**''Winners'': 2008 *

All-Ireland Under-16 Ladies' Football Championship The All-Ireland Under-16 Ladies' Football Championship is a "knockout" competition in the game of Gaelic football played by women in Ireland. The series of games are organised by the Ladies' Gaelic Football Association The Ladies' Gaelic Footb ...

**''Winners'': 2006 *

All-Ireland Under-14 Ladies' Football Championship The All-Ireland Under-14 Ladies' Football Championship is a "knockout" competition in the game of Gaelic football played by women in Ireland. The series of games are organised by the Ladies' Gaelic Football Association The Ladies' Gaelic Footb ...

**''Winners'': 2004 ; St Brigid's *

**''Runner up'': 2015, 2016, 2018: 3 ;Individual * TG4 Senior Player's Player of the Year **''Winner'': 2017 *

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**''Winner'': 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018: 4

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Healy, Noelle Living people Dublin inter-county ladies' Gaelic footballers St Brigid's (Dublin) Gaelic footballers UCD Gaelic footballers Alumni of University College Dublin People from Castleknock Gaelic games players from Fingal 21st-century Irish medical doctors Irish women's basketball players Year of birth missing (living people) Winners of four All-Ireland medals (ladies' football) People educated at Loreto College, St Stephen's Green Medical doctors from County Dublin