Ireland 15 Scotland 14
It may not have been a World Cup qualifier. It may only have been the difference between fourth and sixth in the 2022 TikTok Six Nations. But even in something of a championship free hit a first wooden spoon since 2004 would have kept Irish women’s rugby at a low ebb.
Instead, Enya Breen’s 84th-minute try and 85th-minute conversion completed an exact role reversal with Scotland from that fateful World Cup qualifier in Parma last September. Where there were tears of anguish that day here they were of unbridled joy.
So having used 37 players in this championship they head on to a proposed tour to Japan this summer and a need to fill the void left by not competin …
- May 2, 2022
