FOLLOWING A SIGNIFICANT and much-discussed absence, Ireland women’s head coach Scott Bemand believes the time was right to bring Cliodhna Moloney back into the international fold.
This has now proven to be the case with the former Railway Union and Wasps hooker being called into Ireland training this week on the back of a phone conversation with Bemand. “The conversation was very informal. I’ve been in England, I’ve bumped into her, crossed paths. She knew that she was working hard around performance and there’d be a point that we may look at her or may not. It’s an opportunity that’s presented itself. “We base everything around our on-pitch performances. We feel this is the right time, we feel she can add to it so she was pretty pleased to say ‘yeah, I’d be up for coming in’.
“We haven’t done selection yet. We’ve got a training week for us to bed-in, get to know her, get to know us. She’s day two. She’s going fine and we’ll see what that looks like for selection.