MUNSTER coach Niamh Briggs has named her starting XV for tomorrow’s (Saturday) Women’s inter-provincial opener against Ulster at City of Armagh, 3pm.
Dorothy Wall is chosen as captain in the enforced absence of Nicole Cronin.
Up front, Róisín Ormond packs down alongside Ciara Farrell and Fiona Reidy with Gillian Coombes and Clodagh O’Halloran named in the second-row. Farrell and Coombes will make their first starts for the province.
The back-row consists of captain Wall, Maeve Óg O’Leary and Chloe Pearse.
There’s a new starting half-back partnership with Muirne Wall and Kate Flannery at scrum-half and out-half.
In midfield, Stephanie Nunan partners up with Alana McInerney while the back-three is made up of Stephanie Carroll, Aoife Doyle and Aoife Corey.
Replacements Ellen Boylan, Jane Clohessy, Brianna Heylmann and Abbie Salter-Townshend are all in line to make their senior Munster debuts on Saturday if sprung from the bench.
Munster: Aoife Corey (UL Bohemian); Aoife Doyle (Railway Union), Alana McInerney (UL Bohemian), Stephanie Nunan (UL Bohemian), Stephanie Carroll (Railway Union); Kate Flannery (UL Bohemian), Muirne Wall (UL Bohemian); Róisín Ormond (Ballincollig), Ciara Farrell (UL Bohemian), Fiona Reidy (UL Bohemian); Gillian Coombes (Ballincollig), Clodagh O’Halloran (UL Bohemian); Dorothy Wall, captain, (Blackrock College), Maeve Óg O’Leary (Blackrock College), Chloe Pearse (UL Bohemian).
Replacements: Deirbhile Nic a Bháird (Old Belvedere), Eilís Cahill (UL Bohemian), Claire Bennett (UL Bohemia), Brianna Heylmann (UL Bohemian), Jane Clohessy (UL Bohemian), Abbie Salter-Townshend (UL Bohemian), Aoife O’Shaughnessy (UL Bohemian), Ellen Boylan (Blackrock College).
