Ireland Women Head Coach Philip Doyle has made two changes to the side that earned a hard fought victory against Wales in Round 2 of the RBS Womens 6 Nations Championship.<\/p>\n
Ashleigh Baxter<\/strong> comes in on the wing for Hannah Casey<\/strong> and Gillian Bourke<\/strong> replaces Stacey-Lea Kennedy<\/strong> at hooker.\u00a0 Both Casey and Kennedy will start from the bench.\u00a0 The only other change to the match day 23 sees Laura Guest<\/strong> come into the replacements in place of Paula Fitzpatrick.<\/strong><\/p>\n Niamh Briggs<\/strong> and Larissa Muldoon<\/strong> who came into the side after the opening round are retained at full-back and scrum-half respectively.<\/p>\n Philip Doyle, Ireland Women’s Head Coach, commented, “The team showed great character to secure the win against Wales but they are in for a huge test this weekend facing England at Twickenham.\u00a0 England will be smarting from last year’s defeat and are a quality side who have shown their power and skill already in this Championship.\u201d\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n The Ireland Women’s team will play their first ever fixture at the Aviva Stadium when they play Italy in Round 4 of the RBS 6 Nations Championships on March 8th<\/sup>.\u00a0 This game will kick-off approximately 40minutes after Ireland’s RBS 6 Nations clash against the Azzuri has concluded.\u00a0 Tickets for the Women’s match are available through Ticketmaster.ie.<\/p>\n IRELAND WOMEN v England Women \u2013 RBS 6 Nations Championship<\/strong><\/p>\n Player \/ Club \/ Province \/ Caps<\/em><\/p>\n 15. Niamh Briggs (UL Bohemians\/Munster) 38 8. Heather O’ Brien (Highfield\/Munster)11 Replacements<\/strong> RBS 6 Nations Ireland Women’s Fixtures<\/strong><\/p>\n England Women v IRELAND WOMEN<\/strong> IRELAND WOMEN<\/strong> v Italy Women France Women v IRELAND WOMEN<\/strong> Ireland Women Head Coach Philip Doyle has made two changes to the side that earned a hard fought victory against Wales in Round 2 of the RBS Womens 6 Nations Championship. Ashleigh Baxter comes in on the wing for Hannah Casey and Gillian Bourke replaces Stacey-Lea Kennedy at hooker.\u00a0 Both Casey and Kennedy will start […]<\/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":[2450,4050,8537,6736,4281],"class_list":["post-63935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ireland-women","category-irish-rugby","tag-england","tag-ireland","tag-twickenham","tag-women","tag-xv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63935","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=63935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63937,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63935\/revisions\/63937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n14. Ashleigh Baxter (Belfast Harlequins\/Ulster) 10
\n13. Lynne Cantwell (Richmond \/Exile) 80
\n12. Jenny Murphy (Old Belvedere\/Leinster) 10
\n11. Alison Miller (Portlaoise RFC\/UCC\/Connacht) 16
\n10. Nora Stapleton (Old Belvedere\/Leinster) 20
\n9. Larissa Muldoon (Bristol\/Exile) 17<\/p>\n
\n7. Claire Molloy (Bristol\/Connacht) 28
\n6. Siobhan Fleming (Tralee\/Munster) 12
\n5. Marie \u2013Louise Reilly (Old Belvedere\/Leinster) 27
\n4. Sophie Spence (Old Belvedere\/Leinster) 12
\n3. Ailis Egan (Old Belvedere\/Leinster) 14
\n2. Gillian Bourke (UL Bohemians\/Munster ) 38
\n1. Fiona Coghlan (UL Bohemians\/Leinster) 77 capt<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n16. Stacey-Lea Kennedy (Cooke\/Ulster) 10
\n17. Fiona Hayes (UL Bohemians\/Munster) 3
\n18. Kerrie \u2013Ann Craddock (Saracens\/Exile) 1
\n19. Laura Guest (Highfield\/Munster) 31
\n20. Amy Davis (Blackrock \/Ulster) 33
\n21. Hannah Casey (Saracens\/Exiles) 2
\n22. Grace Davitt (Cooke\/Ulster) 48
\n23. Jackie Shiels (Richmond\/Exile) 9<\/p>\n
\nTwickenham Stadium: 18:20
\nSaturday 22nd<\/sup> February, 2014<\/p>\n
\nAviva Stadium; 17:00
\nSaturday 8th<\/sup>March, 2014<\/p>\n
\nStade du Hameau; 18:45
\nFriday 14th<\/sup> March, 2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"