 Doyle with Ireland in 2023 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 2 June 1995 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Place of birth | Limerick, Ireland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 64 kg (141 lb; 10 st 1 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Aoife Doyle (born 2 June 1995) is an Irish rugby player from Limerick. She plays for Railway Union, Munster and the Ireland women's national rugby union team. She is a teacher in Dublin.
Doyle's first club was Shannon RFC in Limerick and she continued to play for them initially when she joined All-Ireland League side Railway Union until she concentrated exclusively on sevens rugby for six years.
Doyle was selected for the Ireland women's national rugby union team that won the 2015 Women's Six Nations when she was 18 years of age. She debuted as a starter, on the wing, against France in Ashbourne and was a replacement versus Wales and Scotland.
She then concentrated solely on playing for the Ireland women's national rugby sevens team for six years, making her debut in the World Rugby Sevens Series in Clermont-Ferrand in 2016. [1]
She was part of the team that was sixth at the 2018 Sevens World Cup in San Francisco and the team that finished fourth in Sydney in February 2019, Ireland's best ever result on the World Seven Series tour. [2]
After they failed to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics she retired from international sevens rugby and was recalled to the national XVs team by head coach Adam Griggs. [3]
In the 2020 Women's Six Nations Doyle started against Scotland and England and was a replacement against Wales. [4]
Doyle, from Clareview in Limerick City, went to school in Laurel Hill Secondary School. Her father was a primary school teacher and lecturer and her mother was a well known local government official. She started studying in St Patrick's Drumcondra after school but quit college due to the difficulty of mixing it with playing on the International Sevens circuit.
In 2020 she quit her secretarial job in a drug treatment centre to return to college, to study teaching, at the Marino Institute of Education. [5]
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