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# ireland 2017

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Best player, best try and more of The42's WRWC awards
28 Aug 2017
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Breathtaking 20 minutes with 5 tries helps Black Ferns reclaim World Cup from England
26 Aug 2017
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Tierney walks away after torrid World Cup calling for bigger, better athletes to play for Ireland
26 Aug 2017
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The bitter end: Late rally from Ireland not enough to salvage consolation from home World Cup
26 Aug 2017
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Drive for seventh place needn't mean the legacy of this World Cup is lost
26 Aug 2017
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Naoupu on the bench as Ireland aim for seventh on final day of World Cup action
25 Aug 2017
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Former Ireland back row Joy Neville named to referee World Cup final
24 Aug 2017
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Ireland coach Tom Tierney facing post-World Cup review to determine future
23 Aug 2017
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Wonderful Woodman scores four as Black Ferns march back into World Cup final
22 Aug 2017
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'This World Cup has shown the women's game is getting bigger and bigger'
22 Aug 2017
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France and England dominate our WRWC Team of the Pool Stage, but one Irish woman made the cut
18 Aug 2017
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Black and Bleu Ireland can only turn attention to Australia and 'achieving something' at this WRWC
18 Aug 2017
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Improvements and another deep dig, but nowhere near enough to cope with ferocious French
17 Aug 2017
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Ireland miss out on World Cup semis as France overpower hosts in UCD
17 Aug 2017
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'France are in our way': Jenny Murphy relishing the big stage of a vital World Cup test
17 Aug 2017
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New Zealand steam-roll Canada to complete perfect run to World Cup semis
17 Aug 2017
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Ireland bidding to stop French fluency at source with pack physicality
16 Aug 2017
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'You'd think they were in Vegas!': Slick passing and clean offloads all over the top 5 tries from yesterday's WRWC action
14 Aug 2017
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French bells toll for Ireland as the rugby family make themselves at home in UCD
14 Aug 2017
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'We need to play the game of our lives against the French'
14 Aug 2017
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Fitzpatrick helps Ireland flick the switch and more talking points after problematic win over Japan
13 Aug 2017
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5
England didn't need to be at their best to run in 10 tries against Italy
13 Aug 2017
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'We're trying to embrace the expectation and pressure, but it caught us'
11 Aug 2017
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Second row rampage tops the list of best tries from the WRWC opening day in Dublin
10 Aug 2017
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Spence just one of the match-winning 'impact subs' that delivered victory for Ireland
10 Aug 2017
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Gone in 11 seconds: Quickest try of the day helps France rout Japan and top Ireland's pool
10 Aug 2017
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'Ugly' win a beautifully firm foothold in the tournament for Tierney
9 Aug 2017
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Magnificent Maz and more talking points as Ireland begin the World Cup with a bang
9 Aug 2017
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Slick Winiata hat-trick helps Black Ferns gloss over set-piece struggle with Wales
9 Aug 2017
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Set-piece, structure and incessant work-rate critical for Ireland in home World Cup opener
9 Aug 2017
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Talking over as Ireland Women prepare to take hold of jersey and Australia
8 Aug 2017
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How one Irish woman helped turn rugby into a sport for both sexes
7 Aug 2017
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'If I can get girls to live the dream that I'm living, then that's pretty cool'
6 Aug 2017
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Ireland Women striving to make sporting role models a not-so-rare commodity for girls
6 Aug 2017
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7 into 15s will go: High performance plan behind Ireland Women can bear its fruit at World Cup
3 Aug 2017
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Sophie Spence eagerly, nervelessly embracing countdown to World Cup
2 Aug 2017
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With Briggs injury setback, Ireland turn to Molloy as Women's Rugby World Cup captain
2 Aug 2017
12.1k
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Australia gunning to 'knock off' Ireland in World Cup opener
2 Aug 2017
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'They’re the wonder women of our culture': The haka and the second wind it gives the Black Ferns
1 Aug 2017
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Injured Ireland skipper Briggs vows to return for Six Nations
1 Aug 2017
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