Irish women aim to end journey together on high

The French rugby union’s HQ in Marcoussis is a quiet enough sort of spot at the best of times, but it must be positively eerie today as so many of its current residents come to terms with the events of Wednesday evening.

Ireland and France have established quarters a stone’s throw from each other this past two weeks and they will get to see more of each other on Sunday having lost their respective semi-finals to England and Canada two nights ago.

No doubt about it, yesterday will have been grim.