'I was bit of a pest... I wanted to be out with the boys and I wanted to play'

DESPITE ONLY being five caps into her international career, 21-year-old flanker Aoife Wafer is fast establishing herself as a key figure within the Ireland women’s rugby team.

These are impressive accolades for someone so young, but as she explained at a press conference in the IRFU’s High-Performance Centre on Tuesday, Wafer has had an eventful journey up to this point in her career. Following some consultation, she ultimately opted to go for the former option and it was then that she first came into contact with one of her future international colleagues.

However, Wafer was later named in the Six Nations squad by then-Ireland 15s head coach Greg McWilliams for the 2022 edition of the tournament and — at just 19 years of age — she made her international bow as a 59th-minute replacement in a third-round showdown against Italy at Musgrave Park in Cork on 10 April.

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