six changes<\/a>, including the return of co-captain Edel McMahon.<\/p>\nNeve Jones, Ruth Campbell, Brittany Hogan, Aoibheann Reilly and B\u00e9ibhinn Parsons are also restored to the starting XV.<\/p>\n
The world champions, meanwhile, have made two personnel changes with Liana Mikaele-Tu’u and Renee Holmes starting at number 8 and full-back, respectively.<\/p>\n
TEAMS<\/p>\n
Ireland: Stacey Flood; B\u00e9ibhinn Parsons, Aoife Dalton, Eve Higgins, Amee-Leigh Murphy Crowe; Dannah O’Brien, Aoibheann Reilly; Ellena Perry, Neve Jones, Linda Djougang; Ruth Campbell, Sam Monaghan (co-capt); Grace Moore, Edel McMahon (co-capt), Brittany Hogan.<\/p>\n
Replacements: Cl\u00edodhna Moloney-MacDonald, Niamh O\u2019Dowd, Sadhbh McGrath, Eimear Corr-Fallon, Claire Boles, Emily Lane, Nancy McGillivray, Anna McGann.<\/p>\n
New Zealand: Renee Holmes; Braxton Sorensen-McGee, Stacey Waaka, Logo-I-Pulotu Lemapu-Atai’i Sylvia Brunt, Portia Woodman-Wickliffe; Ruahei Demant (co-capt), Risaleaana Pouri-Lane; Chryss Viliko, Georgia Ponsonby, Tanya Kalounivale; Maiakawanakaulani Roos, Alana Bremner; Layla Sae, Jorja Miller, Liana Mikaele-Tu\u2019u.<\/p>\n
Replacements: Vici-Rose Green, Kate Henwood, Amy Rule, Laura Bayfield, Kennedy Tukuafu (co-capt), Maia Joseph, Theresa Setefano, Ayesha Leti-I\u2019iga.<\/p>\n
OFFICIALS<\/p>\n
Referee: Hollie Davidson<\/p>\n
Assistant referees: Precious Pazani, Amelia Luciano<\/p>\n
TMO: Quinton Immelman<\/p>\n
WHAT THEY SAID<\/p>\n
Scott Bemand (Ireland head coach): “There’s always bits to tidy up on. But we recognise from last week a lot of those bits of pressure came from things that we can control. So we’ve been able to go after those this week. So part freshen-up, part preparedness and we think we’re in the right space to go now.”<\/p>\n
Allan Bunting (New Zealand head coach): “Our w\u0101hine (women) have all had an opportunity to play the past two games. Consistency and cohesion will be a key focus around our selections. We have had critical learnings out of the last two weeks and are building well.”<\/p>\n
PREVIOUS MEETINGS<\/p>\n
Ireland 29-27 New Zealand (30 September 2024, WXV1, Vancouver)<\/p>\n
Ireland 8-38 New Zealand (27 November 2016, Test, UCD)<\/p>\n
Ireland 17-14 New Zealand (5 August 2014, World Cup, Paris)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland are safely through to the quarter-finals of the Women’s Rugby World Cup and face New Zealand in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3313,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-3312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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