Dannah O'Brien needs to be all kinds of everything for Ireland at World Cup

O’Brien’s run of games speaks for her durability, which will be tested at a World Cup, but the defining part of her play to date has unquestionably been a kicking game that head coach Scott Bemand rates as good as any he has seen in the women’s game.

ALL KINDS OF EVERYTHING: Ireland’s women kick off their 2025 World Cup against Japan in Franklin’s Gardens this Sunday with Dannah O’Brien assuming the Sexton role in terms of her prominence and importance in terms of what it is the team does and hopes to achieve. Pic: Shauna Clinton/Sportsfile

An Irish team, a World Cup, and an over-reliance on one out-half that is leaning into the realms of the uncomfortable.

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