# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-o-connell
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:45:44.109Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-o-connell"
name: "Paul O'Connell"
slug: "paul-o-connell"
description: "Paul Jeremiah O'Connell is an Irish rugby union coach and former player. When he retired, he was Ireland's third most-capped player (108) and the eighteenth most-capped international player in rugby union history. During his career, O'Connell captained Munster, Ireland and the British & Irish Lions. He is now the forwards coach for the Ireland national men's team."
tagline: "Irish rugby union footballer and coach"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Paul_O'Connell_warmup.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1979-10-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.51
  momentum:             4.526066350710901
  historical:           11.22160533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "保羅·奧康內爾"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_O'Connell_(ragbista)"
    title: "Paul O'Connell (ragbista)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_O%E2%80%99Connell"
    title: "Paul O’Connell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_O'Connell"
    title: "Paul O'Connell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_O'Connell"
    title: "Paul O'Connell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_O'Connell"
    title: "Paul O'Connell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_O'Connell"
    title: "Paul O'Connell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_O'Connell"
    title: "Paul O'Connell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_O'Connell"
    title: "Paul O'Connell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9D%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AA%E3%82%B3%E3%83%B3%E3%83%8D%E3%83%AB"
    title: "ポール・オコンネル"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_O%E2%80%99Connell"
    title: "Paul O’Connell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%E2%80%99%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BB%2C_%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%BB"
    title: "О’Коннелл, Пол"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Пол О’Конел"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump