Abby Moyles: 'I liked all of them the same but rugby, I got more of a buzz from it'

Moyles is grateful, nevertheless for her the skills both Gaelic football and camogie equipped her with for playing fly-half, a position that earned her recognition in this year’s Celtic Challenge for the combined Leinster/Ulster Wolfhounds team.

A DIFFERENT ROUTE: With an uncle who helped Meath win the Leinster SFC when she was a small child, it would have been natural for Abby Moyles to have seen through a GAA career beyond county minor level but rugby and life with the Ulster Women’s squad is proving the right fit for the teenager. Pic: ©INPHO/Ryan Byrne

With an uncle who helped Meath win the Leinster SFC when she was a small child, it would have been natural for Abby Moyles to have seen through a GAA career beyond county minor level but rugby and life with the Ulster Women’s squad is proving the right fit for the teenager.

Amid the big names alongside her as Bank of Ireland gathered players from the four provinces to announce a five-year extension of their current sponsorship arrangements with Connacht, Leinster, Munster and Ulster, the 18-year-old fly-half cut something of a curious figure in Dublin on Wednesday. Yet while Moyles’ rugby journey is at a polar opposite end to those also present, including Ireland men’s internationals Jamison Gibson-Park, Mack Hansen and veteran Munster prop John Ryan, it is no less interesting, particularly as Gaelic Games seemed to be her destiny.