Claire MCLaughlin, Ireland Women's Rugby

Six Nations. McLaughlin starts, Van Staden, Caughey and Muldoon bench against France

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Ireland’s Director of Women’s Rugby Anthony Eddy, despite his claims otherwise, has decided to throw all his eggs into one basket by withdrawing three players from the national squad in an attempt to bolster the Ireland Women’s Sevens team.

All expectations were, following repeated failures in the sevens game, culminating in the failure to qualify for the Olympics last season, that Ireland would focus all their attention on the 2017 World Cup in Ireland. 

This appears not to be the case following the withdrawal of  Alison Miller, Sene Naoupu and Hannah Tyrrell from the Ireland Squad, in favour of the 7s programme, in the middle of the Six Nations Series. Imagine if that happened in the men’s game!

However, the likely driving force between swapping players between . . .

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