against Italy<\/a>, and will be hoping to finish the campaign on a high, and head coach Scott Bemand thinks they can do just that.<\/p>\n![\"Scott](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Untitled-design-15.jpg\")
Forwards coach Alan O\u2019Connor, left, and head coach Scott Bemand, right, during an Ireland Women Rugby training session. Pic: Shauna Clinton\/Sportsfile<\/p>\n
\u2018So, for me, these next two games, starting with Wales, are big moments for us. Not just to beat Wales in Ireland\u2026 but to actually to put a performance out there, a performance that we can go, \u2018yeah, actually we\u2019re moving\u2019, and a performance that people can get on the back of.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u2018We took a few days to recover. We\u2019ve been able to have a couple of days training, the girls have bounced back, and we can see that in some of the performance data in terms of how quick people are moving.<\/p>\n
\u2018A home Test match against Wales, they\u2019re big, aren\u2019t they? And we want to get that performance out there that really gets people talking about it.\u2019<\/p>\n
Ireland Women\u2019s Team to face Wales <\/p>\n
15. Stacey Flood
14. B\u00e9ibhinn Parsons
13. Aoife Dalton
12. Eve Higgins
11. Robyn O\u2019Connor
10. Dannah O\u2019Brien
9. Emily Lane<\/p>\n
1. Ellena Perry
2. Cliodhna Moloney-MacDonald
3. Linda Djougang
4. Dorothy Wall
5. Fiona Tuite
6. Brittany Hogan
7. Erin King (captain)
8. Aoife Wafer<\/p>\n
Replacements:<\/p>\n
16. Neve Jones
17. Sadhbh McGrath
18. Eil\u00eds Cahill
19. Ruth Campbell
20. Sam Monaghan
21. Grace Moore
22. Katie Whelan
23. Niamh Gallagher<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scott Bemand has named an almost identical line-up to their game against France last month. Ireland follow up…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438323,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-438322","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\/438322","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=438322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
![\"ireland](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Untitled-design-13.jpg\")
Irish team ahead of the Women\u2019s Six Nations Rugby Championship match against France. Pic: Shauna Clinton\/Sportsfile<\/p>\n