Tackling issues to the fore for student of the game Dayne

Ireland's scrum-half is doing a PhD on tackling in the women's game and hopes her doctorate will help shape policy to ensure female players are safer

Ireland’s Kathryn Dane. ©INPHO/Ryan Byrne

A lot of athletes describe themselves as ‘students’ of their game but, in the case of Irish scrum-half Kathryn Dane, that is, literally, true.

She’ll be busy in the furnace-room when Ireland face the white-hot heat of England in the TikTok Six Nations tomorrow (Welford Road, noon) and is just as busy with rugby off the pitch.