Winning the Six Nations Grand Slam was a huge achievement. But rather than stop there, the Irish women's rugby team have continued their recent rise, valiantly beating reigning world champions New Zealand in today's pool clash at the World Cup.
After that historic achievement against a previously unbeatable team, scrum-half Tania Rosser and attack coach Greg McWilliams joined us on the line from France.
"We really believed in ourselves that we could do it," said Rosser, who is from New Zealand originally and has lived in Ireland for 14 years.
On Ireland's recent rise within women's rugby, Rosser puts it down to a couple of things.
"I think it's down to a couple of things. We've got really good strength and conditioning coaches. Greg's worked really hard on our skills and ball work. The girls have also put in a lot of work to be successful," said Rosser, who also cited the unity in the squad.
Tania Rosser ©INPHO/Cathal Noonan
Rosser is already looking ahead to the next game against Kazakhstan and the rest of the tournament, while McWilliams said he will not get carried away with the result until after the World Cup.
McWilliams did give an insight into the approach used against New Zealand.
"The key thing was to concentrate on ourselves and the process that we had going into the game. Obviously when I, as a coach, watch videos after a game, I look at it firstly at how New Zealand would defend against us and then tried to counter-act that. Tactically it went pretty well."
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