Why Rachel Doody is on this page

Heritage: Doody-surname carrier in the New Zealand sporting context; no documented Irish lineage in the brief Wikipedia article. Heritage classification: diaspora-unconfirmed.

Rachel Doody (born 11 November 1984) is a former New Zealand association footballer who represented the Football Ferns at international level in 2003, appearing in two senior matches without scoring. Her Wikipedia article is brief; the Football Ferns roster pages and the *List of New Zealand women’s international footballers* carry the underlying playing record.

Heritage notes

Family root: New Zealand — diaspora-unconfirmed-nz-irish.

The directory threads Rachel Doody back to the O'Dubhda clan story via the surname-variants reality — the same family carried these spellings as it scattered. See the septs and the diaspora for the wider pattern, or the Clan DNA Project for the genetic connections being mapped now.