{"id":413342,"date":"2026-04-23T11:32:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T11:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/413342\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T11:32:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T11:32:07","slug":"dorothy-wall-returns-to-ireland-team-to-face-france-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/413342\/","title":{"rendered":"Dorothy Wall returns to Ireland team to face France \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/scott-bemand\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/scott-bemand\/\">Scott Bemand<\/a> has restored Dorothy Wall to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/ireland-womens-rugby\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/ireland-womens-rugby\/\">Ireland <\/a>starting team for Saturday night\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/women-s-six-nations\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/women-s-six-nations\/\">Six Nations<\/a> Championship match against France in Clermont Auvergne (8.10pm, Irish time, live on Virgin Media 2). It\u2019s the only change to the side that beat Italy last weekend at the Dexcom stadium. Ruth Campbell drops to the bench. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Bemand has named an unchanged backline for the trip to Clermont, with Stacey Flood, B\u00e9ibhinn Parsons and last week\u2019s debutant Robyn O\u2019Connor continuing in the back three, while Aoife Dalton and Nancy McGillivray are retained in midfield.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Emily Lane and Dannah O\u2019Brien continue their half-back partnership at scrumhalf and out-half respectively. In the pack, Ellena Perry, Cliodhna Moloney-MacDonald and Linda Djougang are named as Ireland\u2019s starting front row for the third successive match, with Dorothy Wall back into the second row to partner Fiona Tuite.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Brittany Hogan continues at blindside flanker, captain Erin King is at openside and Aoife Wafer completes the pack at number eight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">On the bench, Neve Jones, Niamh O\u2019Dowd, Eil\u00eds Cahill, Ruth Campbell and Sam Monaghan are the forward replacements available to Bemand, with Katie Whelan, Eve Higgins and Anna McGann the backline options.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Saturday\u2019s match is live on Virgin Media Two and the BBC iPlayer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Ireland: Stacey Flood (Railway Union\/Leinster); B\u00e9ibhinn Parsons (Blackrock College\/Connacht), Aoife Dalton (Old Belvedere\/Leinster), Nancy McGillivray (Exeter Chiefs\/IQ Rugby), Robyn O\u2019Connor (Old Belvedere\/Leinster); Dannah O\u2019Brien (Old Belvedere\/Leinster), Emily Lane (Blackrock College\/Munster); Ellena Perry (Gloucester-Hartpury\/IQ Rugby), Cliodhna Moloney-MacDonald (Exeter Chiefs), Linda Djougang (Old Belvedere\/Leinster); Dorothy Wall (Exeter Chiefs), Fiona Tuite (Old Belvedere\/Ulster); Brittany Hogan (Sale Sharks), Erin King (Old Belvedere\/Leinster, capt), Aoife Wafer (Harlequins). Replacements: Neve Jones (Gloucester-Hartpury), Niamh O\u2019Dowd (Gloucester-Hartpury), Eil\u00eds Cahill (UL Bohemian\/Munster), Ruth Campbell (Old Belvedere\/Leinster), Sam Monaghan (Gloucester-Hartpury\/IQ Rugby), Katie Whelan (Old Belvedere\/Leinster), Eve Higgins (Railway Union\/Leinster), Anna McGann (Railway Union\/Connacht). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scott Bemand has restored Dorothy Wall to the Ireland starting team for Saturday night\u2019s Six Nations Championship match&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,1254,43,2447,123979],"class_list":{"0":"post-413342","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-ireland-womens-rugby","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-scott-bemand","13":"tag-women-s-six-nations"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413342","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=413342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}