Sene Naoupu: 'I had to start with walking, building up into a slow jog'

IT is not stretching credibility to argue that Sene Naoupu is one of the ‘hardest’ rugby players on this island right now.

The Old Belvedere and Irish centre is known for always putting her body on the line, and one typically tenacious tackle saw her stretchered off, with a shoulder stinger, in the late stages of Ireland’s Six Nations defeat by England last February.