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Eimear Considine (born 8 May 1991) is an Irish rugby player from Kilmihil, Co Clare. She plays for UL Bohemians and Munster and has played at full-back and wing for Ireland women's rugby union team since 2017. She works as a primary school teacher.

Club career
Considine comes from the GAA heartland of Kilmihil in Clare and was a ladies’ gaelic football and camogie star for her county. She was age 18 when she won ‘Player of the Match’ in the Ladies Gaelic Football Association All-Ireland Intermediate Championship final in Croke Park in 2009.

She did not take up rugby until she was 23, when she moved to Dublin in 2014 to start teaching. She was initially recruited by the Ireland women's national rugby sevens (2013) and was part of their team’s bid to qualify for the 2016 Olympics.

She joined Limerick club UL Bohemians in 2016 and won an All-Ireland league title with them in 2017.

International career
Sevens

Considine played for the Ireland women’s sevens team from 2013-2016. She made her competitive Sevens debut in June 2015 at Rugby Europe Women’s Sevens Grand Prix Series in Kazan and was in the Irish squad for the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series 2015-2016 in Dubai and Sao Paulo.

Fifteens

Considine got her first Irish cap, as a replacement against Scotland, in the 2017 Women's Six Nations, after playing just three and a half games of VXs rugby. She also played for Ireland's national team before she played for her club UL Bohemians. She was a member of Ireland's team for the 2017 Women's Rugby World Cup. In 2018 she took a year off sport in 2018 to travel abroad.

Considine was originally a winger but given the full-back role for Ireland in the 2020 and 2021 Women’s Six Nations. She scored two tries in Ireland’s 2021 Women’s Six Nations opening round 45-0 defeat of Wales. 

Personal life
Considine graduated with a degree in PE and Irish from the University of Limerick (2008-2012).

Before she concentrated on rugby she was a dual star in gaelic games. In 2008 she played for Clare in four All-Ireland finals - minor finals in camogie and ladies gaelic football and Intermediate ladies' football final plus an All-Ireland club camogie final with Kilmaley. In 2009 she won an All-Ireland Intermediate football title with Clare and was nominated for an LGFA Allstar.

Considine teaches PE and Irish in Dublin and is a fluent in gaeilge. She was a pundit on Eirsport TV's coverage of the 2019 World Cup and, in November 2020, was part of TG4 television's first all-female analysis team for a Pro 14 game.

She is one of the presenters of the House of Rugby podcast.

In 2020, speaking as an ambassador for Rugby Players Ireland 'Tackle Your Feelings' campaign to promote mental wellbeing in schools, Considine revealed her family tragedy. Her father had a heart attack and died in front of her when she was just 14.

Considine’s sister Ailish also starred for Clare in camogie and ladies football. In 2019 she was the first Irishwoman to win a Premiership medal in the AFLW in Australia, with Adelaide Crows.