All about Eve!

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I’ve been hearing whispers about Railway Union’s Eve Higgins all season but it wasn’t until we caught up with the Ireland Women’s Sevens team at the Paris leg of the World Rugby Women’s Sevens Series in June that I finally got a chance to see this prodigious talent in action for the first time.

As I’ve said before, staring down a long lens with the players running at you in close crop you really get to see the determination and concentration on the players faces and, as myself and our other photographer, Beth Cregan, snapped away at the Ireland Women’s side in their five matches, we both commented on the determination, concentration and, above all, confidence on this young players face as she went head to head with the greats in Women’s Sevens rugby.

It’s been a remarkable debut season for Higgins who only turned 19 a few weeks ago. She appeared in 23 matches, out of a total of 27, throughout the series, scoring three tries in the process. It would . . .

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