Eire centre is decided to proper the wrongs of the previous and qualify for subsequent yr’s World Cup
Eire centre Eve Higgins bought an early reminder of how brutal the Six Nations could be in opposition to France final Saturday in her first championship recreation since 2022. Higgins has made higher selections than the one she took after quarter of an hour on the Stade Marie-Marvingt when she went ball-in-hand straight into the abrasive French tighthead prop Assia Khalfaoui.
A mismatch, you possibly can say. The Stade Bordelais participant caught Higgins and shunted her backwards in a thundering sort out that landed the Irish participant on her again and had the French crowd oh-la-la-ing in approval. Higgins bought up. Welcome again to the Six Nations, she thought to herself.