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RTÉ News
01-05-2025
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- RTÉ News
'Dorothy was part of that journey' - Linda Djougang 'gutted' by Dorothy Wall's World Cup heartache
Ireland prop Linda Djougang says she's "gutted" for her team-mate Dorothy Wall, who was ruled out of this summer's World Cup due to injury. Wall became the second high-profile Ireland player to be ruled out of the tournament in England, after suffering a torn achilles during Saturday's Guinness Women's Six Nations defeat to Scotland in Edinburgh. The versatile forward would have been a key player for Ireland in the World Cup, having featured in every game of the championship, scoring four tries. The 24-year-old had surgery on her torn achilles on Wednesday which will rule her out for several months, and she joins flanker Erin King on the sidelines for Ireland's World Cup campaign later this year. "It's so hard, especially such an important year for us to have two pivotal players going out through injuries, and missing out," Djougang told the RTÉ Rugby podcast this week. "I clearly remember on the pitch, it was beside me, and hearing your team-mate screaming that way, it's definitely not something you want to hear. "Dorothy has been having such a good tournament and she's probably my standout player. She's so good, she's our lineout leader and we had to adapt to that. "A World Cup comes every four years and it's something that we've been building on, something we've been dreaming of, and something we've been working hard to get." Djougang, the most experienced Test player in the Ireland squad with 46 caps, says those injuries make her even more grateful for the chance of playing in the World Cup later this summer. "When we didn't qualify a few years ago to go to New Zealand, Dorothy was part of that journey. For me, my heart just goes out to her. I know we spoke about representing our country at a World Cup, we spoke about that dream for us, I just feel so gutted for her. "It's been our goal, it's been her goal. She's been through all of it. She's that pivotal player for us, and she's definitely stepped up beyond even what we expect of her. She's going to be a great loss. "I think that it reminds us that this can be taken that quickly. "It's the sport we play, you can't go in thinking you don't want to get injured. You try to give everything for your country, like Dorothy and Erin have been doing. It's just unfortunate," the prop added. Djougang scored one of Ireland's tries in Saturday's 26-19 defeat to Scotland, among four in total for the powerful Leinster prop over the course of the championship. It saw an otherwise positive Six Nations campaign end on a sour note for Scott Bemand's side, but she believes Ireland will be a better team from their experience at the Hive last week. "It was definitely very disappointing, but we knew why it was disappointing. "I think that's something that we can definitely build on. We knew that we probably didn't execute our gameplan and that we didn't kick where we needed to kick. "Equally we didn't take our opportunities. We definitely are learning. This year's Six Nations has been going well for us, and had also been eye-opening for us, to what we can do and where we want to get to. We're quite lucky that we have another opportunity now in the summer to rectify those mistakes against Scotland. "We know what we're capable of and now, going into the summer, we have two games against Scotland and Canada and we definitely want to head to the World Cup with a good head on our shoulders," she added.
BBC News
26-04-2025
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- BBC News
Scotland score at death to snatch win over Ireland
Women's Six NationsScotland (26) 12Tries: Skeldon, Orr, Malcolm, McGhie Cons: Nelson (3)Ireland (19) 7Tries: Costigan, Djougang, Lane Cons: O'Brien (2) Francesca McGhie's try at the death snatched a dramatic victory for Scotland over Ireland in the Women's Six Irish dominated the first half and struck first through a Amee-Leigh Costigan try, but scores from Lana Skeldon and Emma Orr sent Scotland in 12-7 up at Djougang and Emily Lane scored for Ireland either side of a Rachel McLachlan try for the hosts before McGhie's score in the final play sealed an extraordinary remain third in the table, while Scotland move up to fourth before Italy host Wales on dominant away victories against Italy and Wales, the Irish were looking to make it three from three on the road in this championship and they made the perfect Scuffil-McCabe spotted a gap in the Scottish fringe defence and turned on the burners to break free before finding Costigan to go over for a brilliant were struggling to get a foothold in the game but their lineout was functioning well and that was their route back into the match.A lineout on the Irish five metre line was won and, when the rolling maul rumbled over the line, it was hooker Skeldon left holding the ball after touching down for her 19th try in Scotland visitors came back strongly, banging at the Scotland try line. Only some heroic defence kept the Irish at bay, with Djougang held up twice over the line. Scotland were hanging on and it looked for all the world like Ireland would burst the dam until second-row Sarah Bonar pounced for an interception and kicked ahead to take the play into the Irish scrambled back but could not get the ball off the field in the final play of the half. The Scots showed great composure and engineered space for Orr to slalom through for a superb score and give the home side an unlikely five-point lead at the was not to be denied her try and ploughed over to level things up at 12-12, and Scotland's cause was hampered further when Rhona Lloyd was sent to the sin-bin for head-to-head contact with Costigan in the build-up to the some accuracy was lacking in their game, the Scots were doggedly staying in the game and when they got their chance of a rare foray into Irish territory, they took their chance ball was whipped wide to Chloe Rollie and she fended off a tackle before slipping a beautiful pass out the back door for McLachlan to dive over in the corner. In a match where they had been under the cosh for large spells, the home side now led were undeterred and continued to put pressure on Scotland, most notably at scrum home side were barely back to their full complement when they lost anpther player to a yellow card, this time Helen Nelson for an infringement at a ruck as the Scots became more desperate in their defence of their try pressure eventually told when substitute Lane dived over and O'Brien slotted over the conversion to make it all square was one final twist when McGhie went over in the corner to pull a victory out the fire at the end of a breathless contest.
BBC News
20-04-2025
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- BBC News
Ireland outclass winless Wales at Rodney Parade
Women's Six NationsWales (7) 14Tries: Cox, Bluck Cons: Bevan 2 Ireland (21) 40Tries: Djougang 2, Wafer 2, Wall 2 Cons: O'Brien 3, Breen 2 Wales were again outmuscled as Ireland ran in six tries to secure a second win of their Women's Six Nations hosts had taken an early lead through Carys Cox, but after that it was one-way traffic in the Newport Djougang, Aoife Wafer and Dorothy Wall each bagged two tries in a dominant performance which condemned Wales to a fourth Bluck, who had been a late call-up, scored a consolation for Wales, who played in front of 3,568 fans - a record crowd for a women's international at Rodney will play their final game against Scotland next weekend as they look to cement a third-place finish, while Wales must at least beat Italy if they are avoid a second consecutive wooden to follow. Line-ups Wales: Jasmine Joyce; Lisa Neumann, Hannah Jones (capt), Courtney Keight, Carys Cox; Lleucu George, Keira Bevan; Gwenllian Pyrs, Kelsey Jones, Jenni Scoble, Abbie Fleming, Georgia Evans, Kate Williams, Bethan Lewis, Alex Carys Phillips, Maisie Davies, Donna Rose, Natalia John, Alaw Pyrs, Sian Jones, Hannah Bluck, Catherine Stacey Flood; Anna McGann, Aoife Dalton, Enya Breen, Amee-Leigh; Dannah O'Brien, Molly Scuffil-McCabe; Siobhán McCarthy, Neve Jones, Linda Djougang, Ruth Campbell, Dorothy Wall, Brittany Hogan, Edel McMahon (capt), Aoife Cliodhna Moloney, Sadhbh McGrath, Christy Haney, Fiona Tuite, Claire Boles, Emily Lane, Eve Higgins, Vicky Elmes bin: O'Brien (36 mins)
