Check This Out: Irish Times Article – Ireland target Triple Crown following stunning victory, this article includes a cap count comparison between Ireland 551 caps on pitch & England 554 caps on pitch

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Comparing the caps and looking at the games these England Ladies players have played in, many played all three tests in New Zealand beating the All Blacks 3 times, and the story goes on, involvement in Grand Slams, 7s Series, world championships etc etc. The superb Irish Times article captures the goal of Irish Womens Rugby

Headline “Ireland target Triple Crown following stunning victory
Women’s rugby: Thanks to their stunning 25-0 victory over England at Ashbourne last Saturday (which ended their opponents’ 13-match winning streak), the Irish women’s team stand on the brink of history, as another triumph against Scotland in Lasswade on February 23rd will give the Fiona Coghlan-led outfit their first-ever Triple Crown success…..” for the full Irish Times article CLICK HERE

for a cap comparison see below – also we have interviews to follow with coach Philip, Captain Fiona Coghlin, Ashleigh Baxter, Fiona Hayes, Lauren Day & Larissa Muldoon!

the number in front of each name is the jersey, the number after is the capps

Ireland squad: 15 Niamh Briggs Caps: 27. 14 Ashleigh Baxter Caps: 6. 13 Lynne Cantwell. Caps: 73. 12 Jenny Murphy Caps: 5.
11 Alison Miller Caps: 3.10 Nora StapletonCaps: 14.9 Larissa MuldoonCaps: 11.1 Fiona Coghlan Caps: 65.
2 Gillian Bourke Caps: 32.3 Ailis Egan Caps: 8.4 Sophie Spence Caps: 6. 5 Marie-Louise ReillyCaps: 21.
6 Siobhan FlemingCaps: 6.7 Claire Molloy Caps: 22.8 Joy Neville Caps: 65.16 Stacey-Lee Kennedy Caps: 5.
17 Fiona Hayes Caps: 1.18 Lauren Day Caps: 18.19 Leigh Dargan Caps: 31.20 Laura Guest Caps: 27.
21 Amy Davis Caps: 26.22 Grace Davitt Caps: 43.23 Niamh Kavanagh Caps: 11

England: 15 Kay Wilson 12+ 14 Francesca Matthews 23+ 13 Abigail Chamberlain 1+ 12 Amber Reed 4+ 11 Sally Tuson 4+ 10 Ceri Large 11+ 9 La Toya Mason 29+
1 Rochelle Clark 75+ 2 Victoria Fleetwood 21+ 3 Sophie Hemming 53+ 4 Rowena Burnfield 27+ 5 Tamara Taylor 61+ 6 Joanna McGilchrist 47+
7 Hannah Gallagher 9+ 8 Sarah Hunter 40+
Replacements: 16 Emma Croker 34+ 17 Laura Keates 20+ 18 Roz Crowley 20+ 19 Rebecca Essex 20 Harriet Millar-Mills 7+ 21 Georgina Gulliver 31+
22 Lauren Cattell 2+ 23 Fiona Pocock 23+

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