Nikki Caughey eyes revenge for Pau debacle

It may well be the most notorious train journey in Irish sporting history.

The flight from Dublin to Paris went fine. It was when the Ireland Women’s rugby team coach got stuck in the Parisian Friday rush-hour traffic on the way to the train station that the 2012 Six Nations assignment in France morphed from a trip into an odyssey.

By the time they reached the station the only option was an overnight to Pau via Bordeaux. Six of them per berth for the 800km journey and with just three hours sleep in the team hotel on arrival in the pleasant town by the Spanish border.