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Wafer ruled out of Ireland's World Cup opener
Women's Rugby World Cup - Pool C: Ireland v JapanVenue: Franklin's Gardens, Northampton Date: Sunday, 24 August Kick-off: 12:00 BSTCoverage: Live on BBC Two, BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra, BBC Sport website and app. Aoife Wafer has been ruled out of Ireland's opening Women's Rugby World Cup match against Japan as she continues her comeback from knee surgery. The 2025 Women's Six Nations player of the tournament underwent a procedure last month which caused her to miss Ireland's warm-up games against Scotland and Canada and she has not yet travelled to England with her 22-year-old back row was named in head coach Scott Bemand's squad last week but is not fit enough to feature against Japan on Sunday (12:00 BST) and has remained in Dublin to work on her recovery. As per the rules of the competition, the Irish Rugby Football Union (IRFU) had to inform World Rugby that Wafer had not departed with the squad as players cannot return home during the tournament window to treat injuries as it would be viewed as unfair on those squads who have greater distances to travel. Following their opener in Fraklin's Gardens, Ireland face Spain on 31 August and back-to-back world champions New Zealand on 7 September in their other Pool C games and the side's assistant coach Larissa Muldoon confirmed that Wafer will join the team next week" in preparation looking into Spain."Co-captain Edel McMahon, who also did not feature in either of Ireland's warm-up fixtures, is with the squad and according to Muldoon "came through training" on Tuesday with no who will join Harlequins from Leinster after the tournament in England, scored four tries for Ireland in the Six Nations but missed the last game of the championship after damaging knee ligaments against fitness has become increasingly significant for Ireland following injuries to fellow back rowers Dorothy Wall and Erin King, who will both miss the World however, has confidence in Ireland's depth at the position. "People forget the like of Claire Boles have come back in, Ivana Kiripati has come through the under-20s pathway," added the former international scrum-half."[We have] amazing players coming through and giving us that element of competition in our training environment and identity."
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10 hours ago
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Ireland thump Germany in first World Cup qualifier
ICC Women's T20 World Cup Qualifier Division One, Hazelaarweg StadionGermany 62 (18.2 overs): Gough 28 (39)Ireland 63-0 (7.3 overs): Hunter 31* (23), Lewis 29* (22); Delany 4-9Ireland won by 10 wickets Ireland cruised to a 10-wicket victory over Germany in the first match of their European T20 World Cup qualifiers in won the toss and elected to bat, but only Christina Gough with 28 reached double figures as Laura Delany led the Irish bowling attack with four wickets for just nine runs. Set a target of 63, Ireland openers Amy Hunter and Gaby Lewis made light work of clinching victory, doing so in just 7.3 Hunter scored 31 off 23 balls, while skipper Lewis managed 29 from 22 deliveries. The double round robin competition, which also includes Italy and the Netherlands, will see each team play six times and concludes on 27 beating Pakistan in a three-game series this month, Lloyd Tennant's side, who are next in action against the Netherlands on Thursday (10:00 BST), are firm favourites to be one of the two who will advance through to the global qualifiers. Those will be held in Nepal in January where the final four places for next summer's T20 World Cup in England will be decided.
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11 hours ago
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Shelbourne expect 'sharper' Linfield in play-off
Uefa Conference League play-off first leg - Shelbourne v LinfieldVenue: Tolka Park, Dublin Date: Thursday, 21 August Kick-off: 19:45 BSTCoverage: Watch live on BBC iPlayer, BBC Sport website & app. Shelbourne manager Joey O'Brien says he expects a "sharper" Linfield when the teams meet again at Tolka Park in the Uefa Conference League play-offs. The League of Ireland champions edged out the Irish Premiership holders 2-1 over two legs in a Champions League qualifier in sides have signed players since with former Cliftonville man Sean Moore joining Shels from West Ham United, while Ryan Yates and Sam Taylor are recent arrivals at Windsor despite the new acquisitions and Linfield manager David Healy playing the red-hot Kieran Offord beside Matthew Fitzpatrick in their win over Vikingur last week, O'Brien feels the main difference from the the Blues may be in terms of match sharpness."They're a good team and I've been up watching them since we last played them," said the Shelbourne manager."Player-wise, most of them played against us so they probably won't change the way they played."They went with two out and out centre forwards (against Vikingur) but they might change it again."It was still their pre-season (during the first meeting) so now they will be fitter and match sharper, so it will be a tough game." 'Both teams would have bitten your hand off to be in this position' The Dublin club will be without goalkeeper Conor Kearns, who picked up an injury in their FAI Cup defeat against St Patrick's initially picked up a hamstring issue in the second leg of the Champions League qualifier against the teams are to meet in another European qualifier in the same season is strange. After losing to Shels, Linfeld beat Lithuania's Zalgiris and Vikingur of the Faroe Islands in Conference League qualifying to put them on the bring of the group lost to Qarabag (Champions League) and Rijeka (Europa League) in subsequent qualifiers to drop down into a Conference League teams finding themselves on the brink of qualification to the group stage is a scenario O'Brien feels all would have jumped at if offered from the start."In Europe, it's not something you'll think will happen but it's here now and a great opportunity for both teams," he said."If you'd have offered both teams this opportunity at the start that we'd play for a place in group football, we'd have taken your hand off."Our performances in Europe have been very good and now it's about implementing that."The former Republic of Ireland international did not buy into the suggestion his players took their celebrations at Windsor Park from the first meeting too far and it will serve as added motivation for Linfield."That euphoria is what you play the game for, so I'm not going to tell the lads to calm down."You put so much work and effort into it, when you win you celebrate. It's like Rijeka here the other night [after beating Shelbourne in the Europa League qualifiers], for me to complain about the noise coming out of their dressing room. "That's what football's about - celebrating when you win. In two weeks' time when whoever gets through, they'll be celebrating."
