Six changes for Scott Bemand’s side from quarter-final defeatCaptain Erin King will play her first Test for Ireland since she injured her knee against England in Cork in April last year which ruled her out of the World Cup. She lines up in a formidable backr-ow alongside Aoife Wafer and Brittany Hogan. Wafer and Hogan are among the five forwards in the team who play their club rugby in the Premiership Women\u2019s Rugby (PWR).<\/p>\n
With Amee-Leigh Costigan missing the championship because of pregnancy, Vicky Elmes Kinlan of Wicklow RFC has been named on the left wing with Anna McGann listed among the replacements. B\u00e9ibhinn Parsons is named on the right wing with Stacey Flood at full-back. Resident out-half Dannah O\u2019Brien and scrum-half Emily Lane are the half-back pairing.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Meg Jones leads an England team featuring seven survivors from September\u2019s World Cup final victory over Canada for the launch of their Six Nations title defence.<\/p>\n
Jones takes charge for the first time after replacing former captain Zoe Aldcroft, who is pregnant with her first child, and continues at outside centre.<\/p>\n
Ellie Kildunne and Jess Breach resume in the back three and four forwards who started the 33-13 victory over Canada are present in Amy Cokayne, Morwenna Talling, Sadia Kabeya and Alex Matthews.<\/p>\n
Ireland (v England): S Flood; B Parsons, A Dalton, E Higgins, V Elmes Kinlan; D O’Brien, E Lane; E Perry, C Moloney-MacDonald, L Djougang; D Wall, F Tuite; B Hogan, E King (capt), A Wafer. Reps: N Jones, N O\u2019Dowd, E Cahill, R Campbell, G Moore, K Whelan, N McGillivray, A McGann.<\/p>\n
England: E Kildunne; J Breach, M Jones (capt), H Rowland, C Moloney-MacDonald; H Aitchison, L Packer; K Clifford, A Cokayne, S Bern, M Talling, L Ives Campion, M Feaunati, S Kabeya, A Matthews. Reps: C Powell, M Carson, M Muir, H Lutui, A Burton, N Hunt, Z Harrison, E Sing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Six changes for Scott Bemand’s side from quarter-final defeatCaptain Erin King will play her first Test for Ireland…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,898,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-393309","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-latest-news-ticker","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393309","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=393309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}