Irish women have 'lost all trust and confidence in the IRFU and its leadership'

Over 60 players, including the likes of Fiona Coghlan, Lynn Cantwell, Claire Molloy, Ciara Griffin and Sene Naoupu, have put their names to the missive which pulls no punches on the IRFU’s role and a women’s game which it says is in “disarray”.

Dozens of current and former Irish women’s internationals have written an astonishingly hard-hitting letter to the Irish government to say that they have “lost all trust and confidence in the IRFU and its leadership".

The correspondence comes on the back of a traumatic spell for women’s rugby which has incorporated the failure to qualify for next year’s World Cup, the Donnybrook changing facilities controversy, and some tone-deaf remarks made by IRFU employees.