Ashleigh Orchard combining parenting with rugby as Ireland bid for Olympic Sevens glory

, the then IRFU director of rugby was on the line. He had called to see if she would accept a contract to play with the Irish women’s

Arabella Orchard brightened her mother and father Johnny’s world in August of last year. Today she is at the door of the changing room in rugby’s high performance centre in Dublin resting in someone’s arms. She is always somewhere. “As a mum, it’s hard to just leave your child. If I was going away for two weeks and I had to leave her, I was kind of like, ‘I’m not going to go then.’ So, it’s me and her, or its neither of us.”

“They’re able to switch off with her too because she’s always around, which is really nice. They help me out so much with her. It’s got easier because of that. I call them her aunties.

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