Irish Rugby | Ireland Women’s U20s Squad Named For Italy Trip

The Eire Girls’s U20s squad, sponsored by PwChas been named for this month’s landmark journey to Rome to play in opposition to Italy and Scotland in a collection of coaching matches.

Following a screening camp on the IRFU Excessive Efficiency Centre, Head Coach Neill Alcorn has chosen a bunch of 26 gamers to journey to Italy as an Eire Girls’s U20s programme is launched for the primary time.

There are three senior-capped internationals included within the U20s squad, whereas numerous gamers who starred for the Mixed Provinces facet within the inaugural Celtic Problem and for his or her Provinces in final season’s Vodafone Interprovincial Championship have been chosen.

Niamh O’Dowd, Emma Tilly and Leah Tarpey deliver senior Eire expertise to the U20s squad, whereas the likes of Clara Barrett and Kate Flannery have beforehand impressed for the Eire U18s in Six Nations Pageant motion.

The squad will come collectively for a week-long coaching camp on the IRFU Excessive Efficiency Centre on Monday, July 16, earlier than travelling to Rome on Friday, July 21.

Alcorn’s facet will practice in opposition to Italy and Scotland on the Stadio Tommaso Fattori in L’Aquila, earlier than going head-to-head in two 40-minutes matches on Friday, July 28, exposing the gamers to precious coaching and match time in opposition to worldwide opposition.

Commenting on the squad announcement, IRFU Girls’s Nationwide Expertise Squad and Expertise Identification Supervisor, Katie Fitzhenrymentioned: “We’re delighted to call the primary ever Eire Girls’s U20s squad forward of the journey to Italy. We had 44 gamers ultimately month’s screening camp and the Teaching Group of Neill Alcorn, Larissa Muldoon and Matt Gill have chosen an thrilling mixture of gifted gamers from throughout the nation, all of whom have impressed for his or her Membership, Province, or at underage worldwide degree in a inexperienced jersey.

“It’s a vastly thrilling time for everybody concerned and that is one other necessary step for our Girls’s Pathway, offering a platform for the additional improvement of our greatest younger gamers and exposing them to worldwide rugby at an early stage of their profession.”

Eire Girls’s U20s Squad:

Forwards (14):

Amy O’Mahony (Outdated Belvedere RFC/Leinster)
Caoimhe Guinan (Tullamore RFC/Leinster)
Hannah Wilson (Outdated Belvedere RFC/Leinster)
India Daley (Cooke RFC/Ulster)
Ivana Kiripati (Buccaneers RFC/Connacht)
Jane Neill (Outdated Belvedere RFC/Leinster)
Karly Tierney (Tuam/Oughterard RFC/Connaught)
Maebh Clenaghan (Queen’s College/Ulster)
Megan Collis (Railway Union RFC/Leinster)
Niamh O’Dowd (Outdated Belvedere RFC/Leinster)
Ruth Campbell (MU Barnhall RFC/Leinster)
Sarah Delaney (Cill Dara RFC/Leinster)
Sarah Shrestha (Loughborough College/Ulster)
Sophie Barrett (Enniskillen RFC/Ulster)

Backs (12):

Abby Moyles (Blackrock RFC/Leinster)
Cara Martin (Navan RFC/Leinster)
Clara Barrett (Ballina RFC/Connacht)
Ellen Boylan (Blackrock RFC/Leinster)
Emma Tilly (MU Barnhall/Outdated Belvedere RFC/Leinster)
Eva Sterritt (Outdated Belvedere RFC/Leinster)
Kate Flannery (UL Bohemians/Munster)
Katie Whelan (Outdated Belvedere RFC/Leinster)
Kayla Waldron (Galwegians RFC/Connacht)
Laoise McGonagle (Galwegians RFC/Connaught)
Leah Tarpey (Railway Union RFC/Leinster)
Willow Bell (Sale Sharks/IQ Rugby).