Ireland Women 7s: And Kinghan Makes Five

I had thought it was unusual that Team FRU stalwart had been left our of the Ireland Women’s Squad announcement the other day but before I got the jungle drums going to find out what the situation was in relation to the Monaghan star, it transpired that it was a typo in the IRFU presser.

Kinghan joins , Claire Boles and newcomers and to take the Ulster player representation to 5 in the 26 player squad and she takes the Team FRU representation to 3 alongside Hogan and .

All five of the Ulster girls are playing their rugby outside of the province. #nothinglikeit

Lucinda Kinghan in action for Team FRU

Kinghan made her debut for the Ireland 7s senior side in July 2019 at the Rugby Europe Sevens Grand Prix 2nd Leg in Kharkiv, Ukraine and was in the extended squad for the Hamilton leg of the 2020 World Rugby Seven Series.

The corrected 2021- 20 Ireland 7s Squad is shown below.

  • Lucy Mulhall (Rathdrum/Leinster)
  • Amee Leigh Murphy-Crowe (Railway Union/Munster)
  • Claire Boles (Railway Union/Ulster)
  • Katie Heffernan (Mullingar/Railway Union/Leinster)
  • Brittany Hogan (DCU/Old Belvedere/Ulster)
  • Stacey Flood (Railway Union/Leinster)
  • Béibhinn Parsons (Blackrock College/Connacht)
  • Eve Higgins (Railway Union/Leinster)
  • Anna McGann (Railway Union/Leinster)
  • Kathy Baker (Blackrock College /Leinster)
  • Emily Lane (Blackrock College/Munster)
  • Megan Burns (Blackrock College/Leinster)
  • Grace Moore (Railway Union/IQ Rugby)
  • Enya Breen (UL Bohemian/Munster)
  • Mya Alcorn (Blackrock College/Ulster)
  • Kate Farrell McCabe (Suttonians/Leinster)
  • Aoibheann Reilly (Blackrock College/Connacht)
  • Meabh Dealy (Blackrock College/Connacht)
  • Anna Doyle (DCU/Blackrock College/Leinster)
  • Dorothy Wall (Blackrock College/Munster)
  • Lucinda Kinghan (DCU/Ulster)
  • Erin King (Old Belvedere/Leinster)
  • Maeve Liston (Blackrock College/Ulster)
  • Orla Hayes (Railway Union RFC/Leinster)
  • Soneva Scott (Irish Sevens)
  • Vicky Elmes Kinlan (Wicklow RFC/Leinster)
  • Aoife Wafer (Enniscorthy RFC/Leinster).

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