Niamh Briggs going for Grand finale

Niamh Briggs, by her own admission, is ultra-competitive and a disastrous spectator — so this will really test her limits.

The Irish women’s captain has sat out the entire Six Nations campaign with a torn hamstring, and her frustration will be doubly acute when her team steps up to meet the old enemy tonight in their Grand Slam decider in Donnybrook (8pm).

‘Sit out’ is actually a misnomer.