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.

As it happened: Ireland claim first points of Women’s Six Nations campaign with 35-point win over Italy Ireland claimed their first Six Nations win of 2025 when they took on Italy in Parma today.

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.