Lock Stock and No Smoking Barrels Part 2: Ireland Women 0 England Women 31

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Ireland Women completed their RBS Six Nations campaign with a comprehensive loss to England at Ashbourne on Friday night. Though England were strong favourites, going through the competition unbeaten, the Irish girls will be particularly disappointed that they failed to score with the game ending 0 – 31 in England’s favour.

Unless there is an extraordinary result in this afternoon’s match between Scotland and Italy, Ireland will finish in third place, for the third year running, but after narrow defeats to France and Wales it will be a case of what might have been for Ireland’s Women in this campaign.

Both were games that Ireland could have won, and the management will be particularly pleased how the girls “manned up” to a strong French side – but for a missed penalty, the girls could have walked away with an impressive win. In the case of France it would have been an unexpected win snatched from the jaws of defeat, however the loss to Wales will definitely disappoint coaches and players alike as the Ireland side dominated large portions of this . . .

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