Laura Feely
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| Born | 4 December 1991 Letterkenny, Donegal, Ireland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 89 kg (196 lb; 14 st 0 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Laura Feely (born 4 December 1991) is an Irish rugby player from County Donegal. She plays prop forward for Blackrock College, Connacht and the Ireland women's national rugby union team. She works as a biomedical engineer in Dublin.
Feely is from Ballybofey, Co Donegal. In her youth she specialised in athletics with Finn Valley AC and played gaelic football with local club MacCumhaills. A PE teacher in her secondary school got her interested in rugby and she started to play in Letterkenny RFC a where her brothers also played.[1]
When she moved to study in Sligo she joined Sligo RFC and later Galwegians RFC. After moving to work in Dublin she joined All-Ireland league side Blackrock College.
She played her first provincial rugby for Ulster (2009–2012) but, after moving to Sligo to study and work in 2013, joined Connacht.[2]
International career
Feely was first called into the Ireland women's national rugby union team squad in 2017.[3]
She was not selected in the Irish squad for the 2017 Women's Rugby World Cup and made her Ireland debut in the 2018 Women's Six Nations versus France in Toulouse.[4][5]
She was Ireland's starting loosehead prop in the 2019 Women's Six Nations.[6] She was a replacement in each of Ireland's three games in the truncated 2020 Women's Six Nations and a replacement in each of Ireland's three games in the 2021 Women's Six Nations.