It was an early morning flight to Gatwick, train to Guildford, just about making the kick off for the Ireland v Scotland 7th Place Playoff in the excellent IRB 2010 Women’s Rugby World Cup.
Grabbed my photographers bib, ignored the sniggers of the “pros” at my tiny instamatic and plonked myself on the left hand side facing Ireland’s right wing and waited for Ulster’s Golden Girl Eliza Downey to run in the scores.
It doesn’t often happen this way, but run them in she did with the Downster grabbing a brace, quickly followed by the excellent Niamh Briggs doing the same.
It was an impressive display from Ireland in this final game. Having narrowly failed to qualify for a top four finish the players were disappointed and frustrated with their dramatic reversal to the USA in the playoffs. That was a game where it just didn’t happen for them.
They bounced back in some style in this one as Briggs knocked over an . . .
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