Ireland's Stacey Flood aims to hit the ground running at World Cup

Ireland's Stacey Flood. Pic: Ben Brady/Inpho

Stacey Flood insists that Ireland intend to start off as they mean to go on when they get their World Cup campaign underway against Japan this Sunday.

Scott Bemand’s team has taken its time to get into gear through the warm-up stage with Scotland shooting into a 14-0 lead in Cork and Canada amassing a 40-7 lead a week later before their hosts in Belfast found their feet.