| Amy O'Connor | |
| Sport: | Camogie |
| Icposition: | Right Corner Forward |
| Occupation: | Project manager |
| County: | Cork |
| Clcounty: | 2 |
| Colleges: | University College Cork |
| Colyears: | 2014-2018 |
| Counties: | Cork |
| Icallireland: | 5 |
| Allstars: | 2 |
| Icyears: | 2014-present |
| Code: | Camogie |
Amy O'Connor (born) is an Irish camogie player who plays for her club, St Vincent's GAA, in Cork and at inter-county level with the Cork Senior camogie team. Since her senior inter-county debut in 2014, she has won five Senior All-Ireland Camogie Championships with Cork (2014, 2015, 2017, 2018 and 2023), captaining the winning team in 2023.[1] As of 2022, she had won six Munster Senior Camogie Championship medals.[2] She was the recipient of Camogie All-Star awards in 2019 and again in 2023.[3] [4]
O'Connor played soccer at an international level, and was a member of the Republic of Ireland women's national under-19 football team that reached the semi-final of the 2014 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship.[5]
She participated in the Cork County Camogie Championship in 2021, as a member of the divisional team Seandún which beat Inniscarra on a score of 2–11 to 0–13 - to which she contributed 2-1.[6] Seandún won the 2022 final against Sarsfields on a score of 2–16 to 1–17, with O'Connor contributing 2-8 and being awarded "player of the match" on the day.[7]
In the 2023 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship final, O'Connor scored 3 goals in under two minutes with a final tally of 3-7 earning her the "player of the match" on the day and subsequently the PwC GPA "women's player of the month" award in August 2023.[8] In October 2023, she picked up the 96FM/C103 Rochestown Park Hotel Monthly GAA award.[9] She was then named overall winner (for the year) at the 96FM/C103 Cork GAA Sports Star of the Year awards in January 2024.[10]
O'Connor, who is from Knocknaheeny,[11] attended St Vincent's Secondary School in Cork city.[12] She is a qualified pharmacist, with a bachelors degree in Pharmacy from University College Cork (UCC), which she attended on a Quercus Sports' Scholarship.[13] She is also a graduate of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, with a Masters in Pharmacy.[14] As of 2023, she was working as a project manager at a software company.[15]