Women’s rugby has grown exponentially in recent years at home and abroad, with the Ireland Women's Sevens team making their debut at the Olympic Games last year in Paris
The Ireland Women's Sevens team even made their Olympic debut last year in Paris.
Read more: Ireland rugby’s Béibhinn Parsons shares important Olympic lesson that’s ‘against common beliefs’ “Now we have a centralised programme with top class facilities, a brilliant coaching ticket and we are getting way more fixtures. “I think it’s a great time to get on the bandwagon of women’s sport and women’s rugby because it’s just going up and up and up.”“I think it will definitely take more of a shift towards clubs going towards a semi-professional or professional status,” she said.“We have the Celtic Cup right now, so if we put more time into that and had teams that trained all year-round as opposed to training just for campaigns - that would be very fruitful for the international team.
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