Head Coach Scott Bemand\u00a0has named the Ireland Match Day Squad, sponsored by Aon, for Saturday\u2019s Guinness Women\u2019s Six Nations\u00a0clash against France in Clermont (Kick-off 8.10pm Irish time).<\/p>\n
Following last weekend\u2019s nine-try win over Italy in Galway, Ireland continue their Championship campaign with a Round 3 clash against France at Stade Marcel-Michelin.<\/p>\n
Bemand has named an unchanged backline for the trip to Clermont, with Stacey Flood, B\u00e9ibhinn Parsons\u00a0and last week\u2019s debutant Robyn O\u2019Connor\u00a0continuing in the back three, while Aoife Dalton\u00a0and Nancy McGillivray\u00a0are retained in midfield.<\/p>\n
Emily Lane\u00a0and Dannah O\u2019Brien\u00a0continue their half-back partnership at scrum-half and out-half respectively.<\/p>\n
In the pack, Ellena Perry, Cliodhna Moloney-MacDonald\u00a0and Linda Djougang\u00a0are named as Ireland\u2019s starting front row for the third successive match, with Dorothy Wall\u00a0back into the second row to partner Fiona Tuite.<\/p>\n
Brittany Hogan\u00a0continues at blindside flanker, captain Erin King\u00a0is at openside and Aoife Wafer\u00a0completes the pack at number eight.<\/p>\n
On the bench, Neve Jones, Niamh O\u2019Dowd, Eil\u00eds Cahill, Ruth Campbell\u00a0and Sam Monaghan\u00a0are the forward replacements available to Bemand, with Katie Whelan, Eve Higgins\u00a0and Anna McGann\u00a0the backline options.<\/p>\n
Saturday\u2019s match is live on Virgin Media Two\u00a0and the BBC iPlayer.<\/p>\n
Ireland:<\/p>\n
15. Stacey Flood (Railway Union RFC\/Leinster)(26)
14. B\u00e9ibhinn Parsons (Blackrock College RFC\/Connacht)(33)
13. Aoife Dalton (Old Belvedere RFC\/Leinster)(30)
12. Nancy McGillivray (Exeter Chiefs\/IQ Rugby)(5)
11. Robyn O\u2019Connor (Old Belvedere RFC\/Leinster)(1)
10. Dannah O\u2019Brien (Old Belvedere RFC\/Leinster)(32)
9. Emily Lane (Blackrock College RFC\/Munster)(22)<\/p>\n
1. Ellena Perry (Gloucester-Hartpury\/IQ Rugby)(6)
2. Cliodhna Moloney-MacDonald (Exeter Chiefs)(51)
3. Linda Djougang (Old Belvedere RFC\/Leinster)(54)
4. Dorothy Wall (Exeter Chiefs)(39)
5. Fiona Tuite (Old Belvedere RFC\/Ulster)(22)
6. Brittany Hogan (Sale Sharks)(40)
7. Erin King (Old Belvedere RFC\/Leinster)(9)(captain)
8. Aoife Wafer (Harlequins)(18)<\/p>\n
Replacements:<\/p>\n
16. Neve Jones (Gloucester-Hartpury)(42)
17. Niamh O\u2019Dowd (Gloucester-Hartpury)(21)
18. Eil\u00eds Cahill (UL Bohemian RFC\/Munster)(1)
19. Ruth Campbell (Old Belvedere RFC\/Leinster)(14)
20. Sam Monaghan (Gloucester-Hartpury\/IQ Rugby)(28)
21. Katie Whelan (Old Belvedere RFC\/Leinster)(2)
22. Eve Higgins (Railway Union RFC\/Leinster)(34)
23. Anna McGann (Railway Union RFC\/Connacht)(16).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Head Coach Scott Bemand\u00a0has named the Ireland Match Day Squad, sponsored by Aon, for Saturday\u2019s Guinness Women\u2019s Six…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-413219","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\/413219","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=413219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}