About Emmet O'Rafferty
Emmet O'Rafferty was a rugby union player.
Emmet O'Rafferty is an Irish businessman and former international rugby union player.
O'Rafferty spent his early years in Canada, where his Arklow-born father had moved to practice medicine. He learned his rugby while attending Castleknock College in Dublin as a boarder.
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.
O'Rafferty is the founder and chairman of Top Security.
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