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IT MIGHT SEEM like Aoife Wafer has exploded onto the scene this year with Ireland but her international debut actually came back in the 2022 Six Nations.Wafer’s birthday fell a few weeks earlier on the same day Brian O’Driscoll and his daughter Sadie came into Ireland camp to present the jerseys ahead of a game against Wales.She came on against Italy with a quarter of the game still left and though she was yellow-carded, her first cap will always be a fond memory.
“Fortunately, I got back and it was a very proud moment for myself and my family and unfortunately my grandmother passed away a night or two beforehand. But to be able to get back and for her to know I had got back in the green jersey, it was incredible. That meant they qualified for the World Cup and this year’s WXV1 in Vancouver. Having warmed up with an impressive win over Australia, they beat New Zealand and the US in the latter competition. Wafer has been outstanding throughout.
“Beating the Black Ferns is a highlight for me in my career, I’d say, for the rest of my life and it’s going to be a day that I look back on very fondly. We came away from that Canadian game and we were a little bit disappointed but getting another win in WXV1 against USA is pretty special. “I want to be one of the best in the world and I still have a lot of work to do to be that. I have to keep growing as a person and a player, to keep being curious and asking questions and being vulnerable and seeing my ranking improve and just get back to the graft.”
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