Irish ladies upbeat as they bid for historic hat-trick

IRELAND attempt to make history this week by winning, for the first time, a third consecutive Ladies Home International Golf Championship.

The competition takes place at Dundalk and they have not won on home soil since succeeding at Royal County Down, Newcastle back in 1907.

Before Ireland won at Cruden Bay in 2003, England had triumphed in 10 of the previous 11 years only interrupted by a Welsh victory in 1999.