Sam Monaghan and Edel McMahon are co-captaining Ireland in the upcoming Women’s Six Nations.
WHEN SCOTT BEMAND was appointed as head coach of the Ireland women’s rugby team last summer, one of the first tasks he had on his hands was to select a new captain for the side.
Yet even though it is Monaghan and McMahon who have been tasked with leading the side forward – they were already in their respective roles for the successful march towards the inaugural WXV 3 crown in Dubai last October – Monaghan has insisted they aren’t the only commanding voices in the Ireland squad.
When you consider they were previously team-mates at Wasps in England’s Premiership Women’s Rugby, Monaghan and McMahon seemed like ideal choices for the co-captaincy under Bemand’s watch. “She was playing for Clare. There might be a picture of us somewhere, we didn’t know each other at all. Actually, we were in college together and we were living two blocks down from each other and never even knew each other. She was playing rugby and I was playing football. Then we met at Wasps. We were destined to meet at some point!”
A two-time All-Ireland Senior Football Championship winner with the Royals, Vikki Wall joined the IRFU’s Sevens programme as a centrally contracted player last August and made her debut for Ireland at the Perth leg of the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series back in January.
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