Greig Oliver

Greig Hunter Oliver (12 September 1964 – 3 July 2023) was a Scottish rugby union player turned development officer.

Early life Oliver was born in Hawick, Scotland, and educated at Hawick High School and Napier College in Edinburgh. He worked as a sports sub-editor at the Southern Reporter.

Playing career Oliver, then aged 18, made his first appearance for Hawick RFC in October 1982. He won honours for South of Scotland at junior, under-21 and senior levels, and earned his first senior international cap for Scotland at the inaugural 1987 Rugby World Cup as a replacement for Gary Armstrong in their 60–21 win against Zimbabwe, with Oliver scoring one try and becoming Hawick's 50th international player during the match.

Personal life and death Oliver and his wife, Fiona, had two children: son Jack who, like his father, is a scrum-half and joined Munster's academy in 2022, and daughter Ciara, who excelled at both gaelic football and camogie, being selected for the Limerick Ladies Minor in 2021 and representing Ahane camogie club. He had been on a tandem ride with a pilot, but collided with two paragliders near the landing site and crashed into rocks. National Sea Rescue Institute rescue swimmers and paramedics freed Oliver from the rocks and attempted CPR at the scene, but their efforts were not successful. Oliver had been in South Africa to follow the Ireland under-20 team, for who his son Jack was playing, at the 2023 World Rugby U20 Championship; Ireland defeated Fiji the day after Oliver's death to progress to the tournament's semi-finals.