Rory O'Connor (14 September 1932 — 7 March 1986) was a Welsh international
rugby union
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player.
Born in
Neath
Neath (; ) is a market town and Community (Wales), community situated in the Neath Port Talbot, Neath Port Talbot County Borough, Wales. The town had a population of 50,658 in 2011. The community of the parish of Neath had a population of 19,2 ...
, O'Connor was a wing-forward and played his rugby with
Aberavon
Aberavon () is a town and community in Neath Port Talbot county borough, Wales. The town derived its name from being near the mouth of the river Afan, which also gave its name to a medieval lordship. Today it is essentially a district of Por ...
. He made his solitary
Wales
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appearance against England at Cardiff Arms Park in the
1957 Five Nations
The 1957 Five Nations Championship was the twenty-eighth series of the rugby union Six Nations Championship, Five Nations Championship. Including the previous incarnations as the Home Nations and Five Nations, this was the sixty-third series of t ...
. There was a suggestion that his selection was to prevent him being picked by Ireland, which he had been qualified to represent through ancestry prior to his Wales cap.
O'Connor worked as a rigger at
Margam Steelworks
Port Talbot Steelworks is a steel mill in Port Talbot, Wales. It is the largest steelworks in the United Kingdom and one of the largest in the world. Over 4,000 people worked at the plant until the last blast furnace closed in October 2024. Aro ...
.
See also
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List of Wales national rugby union players
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1932 births
1986 deaths
Welsh rugby union players
Wales international rugby union players
Rugby union players from Neath
Rugby union wing-forwards
Aberavon RFC players
Welsh people of Irish descent