Women's Six Nations squad announced and it's tasty
☘️ Catríona Finn debut incoming
☘️ Loads of fresh caps
☘️ Doro, Wafer and Hogan who are bossing it in the PWR all fit
☘️ Eilís Cahill an additional prop option
☘️ Niamh Gallagher an exceptional fullback into the squad
☘️ King of her Castle captains
My thoughts exactly.
Any chance that the obvious culpits of human greed and idiocy regarding the continuous building on flood plains, poor infrastructure and planning etc. gets held accountable for flooding as opposed to blaming the unverifiable well funded highly lucrative (excuse my cynicism) "climate change" lads?
Indeed it has...but should it when there is not, to my knowledge, one single credible research paper linking man made CO2 emissions(man-made or otherwise) as a climate driver? Baffled.
Team selections for Ireland vs England on Saturday at Twickenham with a 2:15pm kick off.
Most of this lot hung out together on the Lions tour which will probably make it even spicier.😄
Weather forecast-Dry, 13C, with moderate breeze
Here is the Leinster team to face Edinburgh tomorrow..
Full team news: bit.ly/4tdNYoI
Ireland 🇮🇪
Newbridge Rugby Football Club has made history by becoming the first Leinster Rugby club to establish a dedicated Girls Youth Academy at the grassroots level.
Here's Leinster side to face Bayonne tomorrow against a largely second team. Hopefully we get 5 points and a good top 2 seeding from it.
Here's the Leinster team to meet La Rochelle tomorrow..
"World Rugby Top rugby nations by player registrations
"Registered players give the most concrete measurement of a sport’s grassroots reach.
1.Eng. 2.276M
2.SA 2.12M
3.Fr. 1,95M
4.NZ 1,1M
5. Auz 1,05M
6. Arg. 0.85M
7. Wales 0.75M
8. Ire. 0.73M
9. Scot. 0.46M
10. Jap. 0.32M
Oh that bench!
Bundee Aki, Garry Ringrose, Josh van der Flier, and Andrew Porter all come into Ireland's starting XV against South Africa.
Sam Prendergast continues at number 10.
Finlay Bealham and Tom Farrell included on the bench.
Black-and-white action photograph of Wilma Rudolph breaking the tape to win the women’s 100-meter final at the 1960 Rome Olympics. Wearing the USA uniform with number 113, she crosses the finish line in full stride, ahead of two trailing competitors on the cinder track. The image captures the historic moment when Rudolph—overcoming childhood polio—became the first American woman to win three gold medals in a single Olympics
Wilma Rudolph overcame childhood polio & years in a leg brace to become the fastest woman runner in the world! #inspiration
The first American woman, as well as the first Black woman, to win 3 gold medals in a single Olympiad, Rome 1960. 🥇🥇🥇
She died #OTD in 1994.
Rory Best appointed as Ulster Rugby general manager - The Irish Times (✍️@IrishTimesRugby) #RoryBest #UlsterRugby #RugbyNews
John Plumtree to step down as Sharks head coach at the end of the season (✍️@rugby_ie) #JohnPlumtree #Sharks #Rugby
Phew
Big fan of Lucu..BIG fan.
Will Slattery..not helping my nerves Will!
"The Ireland team that will play in Chicago will be the most undercooked Ireland XV to ever play a Test match
10 likely starters have played almost 2,000 minutes less this season than before last November's New Zealand game."
Here are the match stats from Leinster's 5️⃣0️⃣-2️⃣6️⃣ defeat of Zebre.
In the 42 Leinster-Munster matches since that 2009 semi-final, there's been average attendance of 32,440 per game
"So it remains the biggest rivalry in world rugby below Test level over the last two decades"
www.irishtimes.com/sport/rugby/...
Also reported that Shayne Bolton, Edwin Edogbo & Brian Gleeson to travel to Chicago as cover.
The line up tomorrow for Leinster Vs Sharks in the Aviva at 5:30pm. Some Lions and Bok internationals back and Josh Van der Flier to captain Leinster for the first time.
Game on!
It's game day in Pretoria for Leinster.
Spain is walking towards a new era, and it starts with 30 players earning a centralised contract 📄
Understand the implications, changes and goals of the RFER's plan
All in RugbyPass
www.rugbypass.com/news/rugby-i...
Nice progress on this Starling's plumage, with some of the iridescent colors already showing. And I actually like the hooded look on Starlings at this point. 🪶
#birdwatching #nature #wildlife
Huh oh ...dear rugby gods please don't let me have a repeat of the Mens 2023 QF where I felt an A&E visit was barely averted. Sphincter tightening pending second half as I write...
Ireland: Stacey Flood; Béibhinn Parsons, Aoife Dalton, Eve Higgins, Amee-Leigh Costigan; Dannah O'Brien, Aoibheann Reilly; Niamh O'Dowd, Neve Jones, Linda Djougang; Ruth Campbell, Sam Monaghan (capt); Fiona Tuite, Aoife Wafer, Brittany Hogan. Replacements: Clíodhna Moloney-MacDonald, Ellena Perry, Sadhbh McGrath, Eimear Corr-Fallon, Grace Moore, Emily Lane, Enya Breen, Anna McGann.
I 💚 this for us.
Wafer in, Tuite back at 6, Flood is fit and starting
Fire shots on the day and we're right in this.
