London game is Ireland's calling for World Cup bid
Cliodhna Moloney-MacDonald poses for a portrait after an Ireland Women Rugby squad media conference at the IRFU High Performance Centre in Dublin. Picture: David Fitzgerald/Sportsfile
There are all sorts of metrics to track progress, and decline. Should Ireland find themselves playing in Twickenham come late September then the chart explaining the women’s senior team form will be through the roof.
It’s 15 months since they turned up at the home of the RFU and conceded 14 tries and a combined 88 points against the hosts. Return to that leafy corner of the English capital in two months’ time and it will mean they have reached a World Cup semi-final.
