Grace Moloney on improvement and the Ireland dream: 'When the national anthem was playing, I could feel my eyes welling up'

A competitive debut for Ireland 'meant the absolute world' to the Reading keeper. So why didn't it happen sooner?

Grace Moloney during a Republic of Ireland Women training session at the FAI National Training Centre in Abbotstown, Dublin. Photo by Stephen McCarthy/Sportsfile

“I know the answer, but I’m hesitating because I don’t want to talk for somebody else.” 

This week Ireland manager Vera Pauw discussed the improvement in Reading goalkeeper Grace Moloney who, at the age of 27, got her first competitive start in goal for the Republic of Ireland in the December European qualifier against Germany.