Fleming over fears and ready for biggest stage

In Currow they boast about Irish international players like Moss Keane, Mick Galwey and the Doyle brothers, Mick and Tom, but Siobhán Fleming is the only local legend to have won a Grand Slam.

Her Six Nations medal proudly hangs in her Kerry home, where sport was always in the blood — her mother a second cousin to Moss Keane, while her uncle Mick Fleming starred in midfield for the Kerry footballers.

Fleming is relatively new to the Irish set-up, having received the call-up four years ago, but a lack of confidence saw her last just as many weeks in that initial spell.