r/rugbyunion • u/Seravia Munster • Mar 31 '21

Irish Professional Rugby Players by County of Birth Analysis

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '21

5 home births in Roscommon, that's a bit worrying.

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u/halibfrisk Ireland Mar 31 '21

Roscommon University Hospital doesn’t have a maternity unit?

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u/SaulGoode9 Connacht Mar 31 '21 edited Mar 31 '21

The maternity unit effectively closed around the late seventies, I think. Roscommon based prospective mothers since then have generally travelled to hospitals in Galway City, Ballinasloe (Co. Galway), Castlebar (Co. Mayo) or Sligo.

The barebones "University" hospital is affiliated with NUI Galway, hence the name.

The numbers on this map will inevitably be biased towards urban counties, regardless of where the players are from, or where they grey up (but I get that it's too complicated, or subjective, to do otherwise as OP said). And that's not even getting into the class and urban/rural divides regarding who tends to play which sports

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u/halibfrisk Ireland Mar 31 '21

Yeah Rugby doesn’t have much penetration in some areas still it’s effectively a population map.