Cliodhna Moloney-MacDonald will win her 50th cap for Ireland in their opener of the women’s Six Nations against England in Twickenham on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Moloney-MacDonald starts at hooker, as she is one of five Irish players playing their rugby in the Premiership Women\u2019s Rugby.<\/p>\n
Either side of the Exter club woman in the front row is Ellena Perry and Linda Djougang.<\/p>\n
Erin King captains the side, where she is joined in the back row by Brittany Hogan and Aoife Wafer.<\/p>\n
The back three is made up of Stacy Flood, B\u00e9ibhinn Parsons, and Vicky Elmes Kinlan.<\/p>\n
Dannah O\u2019Brien is joined at half-back by Emily Lane, and in addition to Fiona Tuite linking up with the aforementioned Wall in the second row.<\/p>\n
It is expected there could be up to 70,000 fans in Twickenham for the game, with England naming seven players from the World Cup final.<\/p>\n
Ireland: Stacey Flood; B\u00e9ibhinn Parsons, Aoife Dalton, Eve Higgins, Vicky Elmes Kinlan; Dannah O\u2019Brien, Emily Lane; Ellena Perry, Cliodhna Moloney-MacDonald, Linda Djougang; Dorothy Wall, Fiona Tuite; Brittany Hogan, Erin King, Aoife Wafer. Replacements: Neve Jones, Niamh O\u2019Dowd, Eil\u00eds Cahill, Ruth Campbell, Grace Moore, Katie Whelan, Nancy McGillivray, Anna McGann.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cliodhna Moloney-MacDonald will win her 50th cap for Ireland in their opener of the women’s Six Nations against…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-390165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390165","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=390165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}