Nora Stapleton: Ireland’s outspoken out-half

IT’S a sporting anomaly, but both of the first-choice half-backs for the Irish women’s rugby team are from Donegal.

The Women’s Rugby World Cup trophy.

To paraphrase that famous Micheal Ó Muircheartaigh line, Donegal is not known as a rugby domain.

Out-half, Nora Stapleton, now with 45 caps to her name, started out in Gaelic football and won an All-Ireland intermediate football medal seven years ago, against a Waterford side that included Niamh Briggs.