Ireland battered Scotland 59 – 0 in their opening Six Nations match at Ashbourne on Friday night. Tries came from Sophie Spence (3), Alison Miller (2), Heather O’Brien, Lynne Cantwell (2), Ailis Egan, Stacey-Lea Kennedy and Claire Molloy in this one sided rout. Nora Stapleton and Jenny Murphy added a conversion each.
I’d suggested before the game that this might be a bit tighter, with Ireland pulling away late in the second half, but I couldn’t have been more wrong as Ireland tore into the hapless visitors from the kick off.
Spence opened the scoring after three minutes, off the front of a line out, and from then on it was one way traffic as Ireland dominated all aspects of the game. The pack destroyed their opponents in the tight and the loose, with Kennedy and Molloy particularly disruptive, and Jenny Murphy, The FRU Player of the Match, battered the Scottish midfield defence into submission in the opening . . .
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