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Dorothy Wall has been drafted into the starting line-up<\/p>\n
Ireland head coach Scott Bemand has made one change to his starting XV for Saturday’s Women’s Six Nations trip to France.<\/p>\n
Dorothy Wall replaces Ruth Campbell in the second row in the only alteration from the line-up that started last week’s resounding 57-20 win over Italy in Galway.<\/p>\n
On the bench, Eilis Cahill is named as the back-up tight-head prop as Sadhbh McGrath drops out of the squad.<\/p>\n
Ireland are aiming for a first away Women’s Six Nations win over France and are also hoping to avenge last year’s World Cup quarter-final defeat by Les Bleues.<\/p>\n
Bemand has stuck with the same backline after a free-flowing attacking performance that yielded nine tries in Galway.<\/p>\n
Stacey Flood continues at full-back with right wing Beibhinn Parsons hoping to build on her hat-trick against the Italians. On the opposite wing, Robyn O’Connor is retained after her try-scoring debut in Galway.<\/p>\n
Aoife Dalton and Nancy McGillivray continue in midfield with Dannah O’Brien and Emily Lane – who has three try assists in this year’s tournament – remaining in the half-backs.<\/p>\n
Ellena Perry, Cliodhna Moloney-MacDonald and Linda Djougang form an unchanged front row, with Wall recalled to partner Fiona Tuite in the second row after dropping to the bench for the Italy game.<\/p>\n
The in-form back row includes Aoife Wafer, who recaptured her best form against Italy, captain Erin King and Brittany Hogan.<\/p>\n
Ireland team to face France<\/p>\n
Ireland: Flood; Parsons, Dalton, McGillivray, O’Connor; O’Brien, Lane; Perry, Moloney-MacDonald, Djougang, Wall, Tuite, Hogan, King (capt), Wafer.<\/p>\n
Replacements: Jones, O’Dowd, Cahill, Campbell, Monaghan, Whelan, Higgins, McGann.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dorothy Wall has been drafted into the starting line-up Ireland head coach Scott Bemand has made one change…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8503,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6836,6151,6832,6834,6835,5,5602,6833,6150],"class_list":["post-8502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-france","tag-aoife-dalton","tag-beibhinn-parsons","tag-dorothy-wall","tag-eilis-cahill","tag-emily-lane","tag-france","tag-ireland","tag-ruth-campbell","tag-scott-bemand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}