Those who thought 21 year-old Aoife Dalton had her best game in an Ireland shirt last week will have had to readjust as she picked up the Player of the The Match award.

For this rising Ireland team, today is about exorcising some demons from the past. For starters, they need to atone for last weekend’s error-strewn display when a glorious chance to land a first win against France in eight years was derailed by a flurry of unforced errors and poor decision making.

Ireland is looking to get their Women’s Six Nations show back on the road against Italy on Sunday. Head coach Scott Bemand pledged this week that his players had heeded the lessons from their performance against France,