Connacht again row Jemima Adams Verling will make her senior Eire debut in Sunday’s WXV International Sequence opener in opposition to the US in Dublin.
Adams Verling will line out at blind-side flanker within the again row alongside captain Erin King at open-side flanker and Ladies’s Six Nations participant of the championship Aoife Wafer at quantity eight.
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The 20-year-old’s ascension to the senior crew comes after she impressed within the U18 Ladies’s Six Nations in 2024 and final 12 months’s U21 Ladies’s Six Nations whereas she has additionally been spectacular for the Clovers within the Celtic Problem.
She was a part of this 12 months’s Six Nations squad however didn’t function.
Head coach Scott Bemand has named an skilled pack with props Niamh O’Dowd and Linda Djougang and hooker Cliodhna Moloney-MacDonald within the entrance row.
With Sam Monaghan out injured, Dorothy Wall and Fiona Tuite-O’Sullivan line up within the second row.
Within the again three, Stacey Flood begins at full-back with Robyn O’Connor and Vicky Elmes Kinlan on the wings. Proper winger O’Connor was one among Eire’s breakout gamers on this 12 months’s Six Nations, scoring two tries.
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Aoife Dalton and Eve Higgins begin in midfield, whereas Dannah O’Brien and Emily Lane retain their half-back partnership from the Six Nations.
The ahead replacements are Neve Jones, Sadhbh McGrath, Eilis Cahill, Jane Clohessy and Brittany Hogan, who scored 5 tries on this 12 months’s Six Nations, with Aoibheann Reilly, Anna McGann and Niamh Gallagher providing backline cowl.
Eire open their WXV International Sequence marketing campaign in opposition to the US at Dublin’s Tallaght Stadium (13:45 BST), the primary ladies’s rugby Take a look at match on the residence of soccer crew Shamrock Rovers.
Bemand’s aspect then face Japan in a double-header in Galway and Cork on 27 September and three October – the primary of which is a WXV sport – earlier than WXV video games in opposition to South Africa in Cape City on 24 and 31 October.
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Eire: Flood; O’Connor, Dalton, Higgins, Elmes Kinlan; O’Brien, Lane; O’Dowd, Moloney-MacDonald, Djougang, Wall, Tuite-O’Sullivan, Adams Verling, King (capt), Wafer
Replacements: Jones, McGrath, Cahill, Clohessy, Hogan, Reilly, McGann, Gallagher
