Molly Scuffil-McCabe: ‘Being able to be professional, for this to be your job, it just makes all the difference’ via IrishTimesSport
From her vantage point at full-back, Scuffil-McCabe saw nothing but waves of white shirts coming at her that day, the result, she said at the time, “hard to take”. She dusted herself down, though, got back in the saddle and a week later, this time playing on the wing, she was part of the team that ended the campaign on a winning note with a last-minute victory over Scotland in Belfast.
Since then, the IRFU, finding itself falling behind even the Football Association of Ireland in the progressive stakes, tried to up its game by introducing full-time contracts for a clutch of its 15s and sevens female players last year. Not all of them were able to take up those offers, which came in at between €15,000 to €30,000 a year, but Scuffil-McCabe happily accepted hers.
“I was a receptionist in a vet clinic so I typically worked 11 to seven, five days a week. Full on. My ultimate aim is to become a veterinary surgeon and I want to go back and become that but that’s on the long finger for now because this opportunity came up.
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