Time is 'right' to recall Cliodhna Moloney, says Ireland coach

The last two of Cliodha Moloney's 31 appearances followed soon after as the Adam Griggs era came to a close.

RIGHT TIME: Cliodhna Moloney is back in the Ireland women’s squad for the first time since 2021 and a live option for Saturday’s Six Nations meeting with Wales. Pic: ©INPHO/Ryan Byrne

Cliodhna Moloney is back in the Ireland women’s squad for the first time since 2021 and a live option for Saturday’s Six Nations meeting with Wales. The question head coach Scott Bemand was asked to answer yesterday wasn’t so much why as why now?

To recap: the Exeter Chiefs hooker said former IRFU women’s director of rugby Anthony Eddy was ‘spreading slurry’ after his assertions that it was the players and not the union responsible for the team’s failure to make the last World Cup.