Reform of Irish women's rugby must start at the foundation level

A healthy and competitive domestic league must be a given to develop players for the international side

Is having only three home-based forwards (Dorothy Wall, Katie O’Dwyer and Brittany Hogan) in today’s starting pack an indictment of the standard of the domestic league?

WHEN Greg McWilliams named his first Six Nation’s team something stood out even more starkly than Beibhinn Parsons’ absence from the starters or his new half-back pairing.

Five of Ireland’s starting pack today play their club rugby abroad - four of them in England’s Allianz Premier League.