Ruth O'Reilly (born 12 August 1981) is a retired women's rugby union player from Tralee, County Kerry, Republic of Ireland.
[1] She also became an assistant coach for Connacht Ladies and the manager of the Ireland women's Under-17 rugby sevens team.
[2] During this same year, she was part of the Ireland women's team that missed a connection and spent 17 hours on an overnight train travelling from Paris to Pau for a Women's Six Nations Championship match against the France women's national rugby union team, arriving only shortly before the match.
During the tournament, Ireland failed to reach the semi-finals and O'Reilly was forced to leave the team due to injury.
[5] Before Ireland's seventh place playoff, she wrote an article published in The Irish Times criticising the Irish Rugby Football Union for a lack of support of women's rugby and the Ireland manager Tom Tierney for having "lost the dressing room".