{"id":62718,"date":"2014-01-29T11:14:53","date_gmt":"2014-01-29T11:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/?p=62718"},"modified":"2014-01-29T11:14:53","modified_gmt":"2014-01-29T11:14:53","slug":"hannah-casey-make-debut-womens-6-nations-opener-xxiii-named","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/hannah-casey-make-debut-womens-6-nations-opener-xxiii-named\/","title":{"rendered":"Hannah Casey to make debut in Women’s 6 Nations Opener I XXIII NAMED HERE!!!!!!!!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n
Hannah Casey to make debut in Women’s 6 Nations Opener<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Saracens’ Hannah Casey is set to make her Ireland debut against Scotland as Philip Doyle’s charges open their Championship title defense. \u00a0Ireland host Scotland at Ashbourne RFC on Friday 31st<\/sup> January with a 7.30pm kick-off.<\/p>\n

There is a familiar feel to the selection to face the Scots with players such as Fiona Coghlan, Nora Stapleton, Alison Miller and Lynne Cantwell all set to start.\u00a0 Niamh Briggs, one of the heroes last year’s Womens Grand Slam campaign starts from the bench.<\/p>\n

There are three uncapped players named in the match day squad \u2013 Hannah Casey starts on the wing while fellow Saracen Kerri-Ann Craddock and St Mary’s Orla Fitzsimons start on the bench.<\/p>\n

Philip Doyle, Ireland Women’s Head Coach, commented, “We had a good win against the Scots last year but we will need to put in a similar performance this time round to we get a positive result.\u00a0 It is great to be starting off the campaign in Ashbourne and hopefully we can deliver a strong performance.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The Ireland Women’s team will play their first ever fixture at the Aviva Stadium when Italy come to play on Saturday 8th<\/sup> March.\u00a0 This game will kick-off approximately 40minutes after Ireland’s RBS 6 Nations clash against the Azzuri has concluded.<\/p>\n

IRELAND WOMENS v Scotland Womens \u2013 RBS 6 Nations Championship<\/strong><\/p>\n

Player \/ Club \/ Province \/ Caps<\/em><\/p>\n

15. Jackie Shiels (Richmond\/Exile) 8
\n14. Hannah Casey (Saracens\/Exile)*
\n13. Lynne Cantwell (Richmond \/Exile) 77
\n12. Jenny Murphy (Old Belvedere\/Leinster) 8
\n11. Alison Miller (Portlaoise RFC\/UCC\/Connacht) 14
\n10. Nora Stapleton (Old Belvedere\/Leinster) 18
\n9. Amy Davis (Blackrock \/Ulster) 30<\/p>\n

8. Heather O’ Brien (Highfield\/Munster) 9
\n7. Claire Molloy (Bristol\/Connacht) 26
\n6. Siobhan Fleming (Tralee\/Munster) 10
\n5. Marie \u2013Louise Reilly (Old Belvedere\/Leinster) 25
\n4. Sophie Spence (Old Belvedere\/Leinster) 10
\n3. Ailis Egan (Old Belvedere\/Leinster) 12
\n2. Stacey-Lea Kennedy (Cooke\/Ulster) 9
\n1. Fiona Coghlan (UL Bohemians\/Leinster) 74 capt<\/strong><\/p>\n

Replacements<\/strong>
\n16. Gill Bourke (UL Bohemians\/Munster) 36
\n17. Fiona Hayes (UL Bohemians\/Munster) 2
\n18. Kerri \u2013Ann Craddock (Saracens\/Exile)*
\n19. Orla Fitzsimmons (St. Mary’s\/Leinster)*
\n20. Paula Fitzpatrick (St. Mary’s\/Leinster) 4
\n21. Larissa Muldoon (Bristol\/Exile) 15
\n22. Grace Davitt (Cooke\/Ulster) 47
\n23. Niamh Briggs (UL Bohemians\/Munster) 36<\/p>\n

* Denotes uncapped player <\/strong><\/p>\n

RBS 6 Nations Ireland Women’s Fixtures<\/strong>
\nIRELAND WOMEN <\/strong>v Scotland Women
\nAsbourne RFC; 19:30
\nFriday 31st<\/sup> January, 2014<\/p>\n

IRELAND WOMEN<\/strong> v Wales Women
\nAshbourne RFC; 19:30
\nFriday 7th<\/sup> February, 2014<\/p>\n

England Women v IRELAND WOMEN<\/strong>
\nTwickenham Stadium: 18:20
\nSaturday 22nd<\/sup> February, 2014<\/p>\n

IRELAND WOMEN<\/strong> v Italy Women
\nAviva Stadium; 17:00
\nSaturday 8th<\/sup> March, 2014<\/p>\n

France Women v IRELAND WOMEN<\/strong>
\nStade du Hameau; 18:45
\nFriday 14th<\/sup> March, 2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hannah Casey to make debut in Women’s 6 Nations Opener Saracens’ Hannah Casey is set to make her Ireland debut against Scotland as Philip Doyle’s charges open their Championship title defense. \u00a0Ireland host Scotland at Ashbourne RFC on Friday 31st January with a 7.30pm kick-off. There is a familiar feel to the selection to face […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ireland-women","category-irish-rugby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62718"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62721,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62718\/revisions\/62721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}