Rory O'Connor (14 September 1932 — 7 March 1986) was a Welsh international rugby union player.[1]
| Date of birth | 14 September 1932 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Place of birth | Neath, Wales | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 7 March 1986 (aged 53) | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Aberavon, Wales | ||||||||||||||||
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Born in Neath, O'Connor was a wing-forward and played his rugby with Aberavon. He made his solitary Wales appearance against England at Cardiff Arms Park in the 1957 Five Nations. 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.[2]
O'Connor worked as a rigger at Margam Steelworks.[3]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Rejects In Great Form". Sunday Mirror. 13 January 1957.
- ^ Woolford, Anthony (5 July 2015). "Riots, landmines, Greyhounds and snow... The bizzare Welsh rugby debut stories". Wales Online.
- ^ "Death of player". South Wales Evening Post. 8 March 1986.
External links
edit- Rory O'Connor at ESPNscrum