I RELAND DIDN’T play at this season’s World Cup in New Zealand, but they’ve headed into the 2023 TikTok Women’s Six Nations hoping to improve on last year’s fourth-place finish. Second-row Nichola Fryday captains the side and has said that Ireland’s women want to emulate the Grand Slam-winning men’s and U20s sides, saying of the senior men’s team: “They are inspiring a nation and we have always said that we want to bring that to the women’s game.”
Fryday has been
