Woodman proved unstoppable, with the world number one-ranked nation crossing for seven tries.

Wales' hopes of a top-five finish at the Women's Rugby World Cup were ended in emphatic fashion.

Ireland's hopes of contesting the fifth place play-off at the Women's Rugby World Cup have been ended.

Lindsay Peat hopes France can go on to be crowned Women’s Rugby World Cup champions after their first- half blitz demolished Ireland on Thursday night.

Ireland’s comprehensive 21-5 defeat to France at a rain-soaked UCD Bowl saw Tom Tierney’s side fail to qualify for the Women’s Rugby World Cup semi-finals last night.

Today, the 2017 Women’s Rugby World Cup folds its tents and moves up the M1 from the UCD campus on Dublin’s southside to Belfast.

The USA scrambled a try bonus point in defeat.

New Zealand powered into the Women's World Cup semi-finals after crushing Canada 48-5 in Dublin to finish top of Pool A.

“We are absolutely delighted with the success of the ticket exchange programme.”

Ireland need a win to progress to the semi-finals.

With France, it’s always about the known unknowns.

Ciara Griffin says Ireland’s Six Nations victory over France earlier this year will mean nothing ahead of Thursday’s World Cup showdown at UCD.

Three days’ rest and recuperation now and then it’s the French, writes Brendan O'Brien.

There was less than a minute gone at the UCD Bowl when England centre Megan Jones shrugged off a poor excuse of a tackle and crossed the Spanish line for the first score of the 2017 Women’s Rugby World Cup.

Ireland ... 19, Australia ... 17: The scoreboard tells us that Ireland won this terrifically entertaining and edgy World Cup Pool C opener but the more nuanced reality is that they simply happened to be ahead when the clock struck eighty, writes Brendan O’Brien in the UCD Bowl.

Wales were overrun 44-12 by New Zealand to launch their Women's Rugby World Cup group campaign in disappointing fashion in Dublin.

The Women’s Rugby World Cup 2017 kicks-off today with all eyes on Ireland as it hosts the tournament for the first time.

MOST staunch New Zealand rugby people support the Black Ferns, four-time Women’s Rugby World Cup winners.

Ashleigh Baxter and Heather O'Brien will start Ireland's opening Women's Rugby World Cup clash against Australia on Wednesday.

Ireland skipper Niamh Briggs has told her team-mates to embrace their ‘once in a generation’ chance to win a World Cup on home soil.

Tom Tierney says Ireland’s women’s team will take priceless lessons into next month’s World Cup from their Six Nations defeat to England last March.

The Irish Rugby Football Union (IRFU) has today submitted a bid to host the Women's Rugby World Cup in August 2017.

Emotions ran high in the aftermath of Ireland's 25-18 loss to Women's World Cup hosts France, especially with Fiona Coghlan and Philip Doyle heading up the list of departing players and coaches.

Their defeat of New Zealand last week has propelled Ireland into the limelight at the Women’s Rugby World Cup, but coach Philip Doyle insists the pressure lies with England ahead of tonight’s semi-final at Stade Jean Bouin in Paris.

There are any numbers of stories and statistics by which you could measure the progress made by an Irish women’s rugby side which, in Paris this evening, will fight for the right to feature in their first World Cup final.

The small market town of Marcoussis used to supply Paris with tomatoes and strawberries. Today, it will deliver to the French capital an Irish women’s rugby team intent on making history.

When your day job involves clambering up cranes and lots of heavy lifting, lining out against the "old enemy" in a World Cup semi-final is unlikely to shatter your nerves.

Ireland Women's captain Lynne Cantwell says that using all 26 members of the World Cup squad could pay dividends when they take on old rivals England in Wednesday's semi-finals.

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