Aoife Wafer absent again as Ireland name team to take on world champions

The sides face off in a group finale on Sunday.

BRIGHTON ROCK: Head Coach Scott Bemand.

Back row star Aoife Wafer will miss out yet again when Ireland take on the world champions in their World Cup Pool C tie in Brighton on Sunday, but head coach Scott Bemand insists she will be available for a quarter-final a week later.

Wafer hasn’t played since the Six Nations in the spring and hopes that she might be able to take to the park on England’s south coast against New Zealand after opening defeats of Japan and Spain in Northampton haven’t materialised.