Sligo out-half happy to embrace role of underdogs at the Women’s Rugby World Cup
Ireland out-half Nicole Fowley (32) is the oldest player in the squad. Photo: Charles Verghese/Inpho
The question to Nicole Fowley came from an English reporter in the press conference room on the first floor of Whittlebury Hall, Northampton, where the Ireland squad is based.
The sense the journalist was getting in the build-up to the Women’s Rugby World Cup was that Ireland are “dark horses” ahead of their opener with Japan at Franklin’s Gardens on Sunday (noon).