Emmet O'Rafferty

Emmet O'Rafferty
SchoolCastleknock College
Occupation(s)Businessman
Rugby union career
Position(s) Lock
International career
Years Team Apps (Points)
1976 Ireland 1

Emmet O'Rafferty is an Irish businessman and former international rugby union player.[1]

O'Rafferty spent his early years in Canada, where his Arklow-born father had moved to practice medicine.[2] He learned his rugby while attending Castleknock College in Dublin as a boarder.[3]

A Wanderers and Leinster second-row forward, O'Rafferty earned an Ireland call up for the 1976 tour of New Zealand and Fiji. He didn't feature against the All Blacks, but played in their win over Fiji in Suva, for which the Irish Rugby Football Union retrospectively awarded him an Ireland cap in 2023.[4]

O'Rafferty is the founder and chairman of Top Security.[5]

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References

  1. ^ Dalby, Douglas (7 November 2004). "How I Made It: Emmet O Rafferty, Chief executive of Top Security". The Times.
  2. ^ "Dr. Edward Francis O'Rafferty". Tribune Archive.
  3. ^ "Rugby star converted into a big security player". Irish Independent. 25 August 2007.
  4. ^ "Jack Guiney to be posthumously awarded Ireland rugby cap by the IRFU". Irish Independent. 19 April 2023.
  5. ^ "Expansion-minded security chief won't drop his guard". Irish Independent. 2 August 2007.