Women: Progress of Irish game painfully slow

Following on from last Friday’s travel fiasco in Paris, our friends at ScrumQueens have forwarded their latest piece on Irish Women’s Rugby.

The fall-out from last week’s disastrous travel debacle for the Irish women’s rugby team has had one good outcome with the IRFU committing today to “new strategy regarding the development of Sevens and matches outside the Six Nations window” writes Ali Donnelly.

Some bad stories do have tentatively positive endings and no more so than the IRFU’s changed stance today when, in reply to questioning about their treatment of women’s rugby, they were somewhat coerced into committing to a new strategy for the game which they say has been “accelerated” this week.

But for those of us with long-held genuine concerns about the development of the game in Ireland in the four years since the IRFU took over the full management of women’s . . .