Lucy Rock: 'We broke down in tears, It is all any of us have ever wanted'

READY TO ROCK: Lucy Rock, centre, and team-mates during the Team Ireland Paris 2024 team training for Rugby Sevens ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Pic: Shauna Clinton/Sportsfile

Bad news comes in threes. Around the same time Ireland Women’s Sevens lost three players to the 15s for the Six Nations, Australia dished out a 31-0 defeat in Los Angeles. In the same game, captain Lucy Rock went off after a worrying double cleanout.

Rock will captain a 12-player group at the Olympic Games this summer. The Women’s tournament kicks off at the Stade de France on July 28. Rock has been involved since 2015.