{"id":773737,"date":"2026-09-17T15:30:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T15:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/773737\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T15:30:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T15:30:15","slug":"premiership-womens-rugby-irfu-await-news-of-massive-opportunity-to-join-pwr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/773737\/","title":{"rendered":"Premiership Women&#8217;s Rugby: IRFU await news of &#8216;massive opportunity&#8217; to join PWR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Munster, Connacht, Leinster and Ulster currently play in an Interpro league in the early part of the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Celtic Challenge has been running since 2023, with Irish sides Wolfhounds and Clovers largely dominating the competition, the former having won the tournament three years in a row.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The squads for the two Irish teams are selected from a pool of players based in Ireland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A significant number of Ireland players ply their trade in the PWR, including Harlequins captain and double Women&#8217;s Six Nations player-of-the-tournament Aoife Wafer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Others include Sale Sharks back row Brittany Hogan, Exeter Chiefs forwards Cliodhna Moloney-MacDonald and Dorothy Wall and Gloucester Hartpury players Sam Monaghan, Niamh O&#8217;Dowd and Neve Jones.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The opportunity with Ireland so close to England, and the opportunity to be part of that league is exceptional, and therefore we are very focused on exploring it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I think what that means for a player is that she is in a great daily environment, getting great access to training, medical and all those things that she needs to put on a weekly basis, and she is playing a really intense competition, and where you are feeling into that principle of iron sharpens iron, which makes everyone better,&#8221; added Cantwell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Munster, Connacht, Leinster and Ulster currently play in an Interpro league in the early part of the season.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":773738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-773737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=773737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/773738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}