Linda Djougang on next steps, contracts and balancing rugby and nursing

The Ireland prop is unsure if she's heading back to France after the tour to Japan.

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If the recent women’s summer tour to Japan was a huge leap forward for Irish rugby then Linda Djougang and the rest of Greg McWilliams’ squad have returned to something of a holding pattern.

The 26-year old prop spent last season with ASM Romagnat in France, leaving her full-time job as a nurse to do so, and since which the IRFU has announced 43 professional contracts for the women’s XVs and sevens sides.