Malone welcomed Wicklow to Gibson Park on Saturday evening for their second Women’s All Ireland Conference fixture.

Malone started strongly with Lauren Maginnis to the fore, with a couple of bruising runs, and it looked as though they would take control of the game when Sophie Armstrong crossed out on the right for the opening try after 9 minutes.

However, some misguided attempts to run the ball from all areas led to a few handling errors in an overcrowded midfield and Wicklow took full advantage to spend some time in the Malone half. The pressure told and, after a couple of dabs at the Malone line, Wicklow’s centre Emma Curran made the breakthrough to cross for the equalising try on the 23rd minute. Beth Roberts added the extras to give . . .