Ireland Media Day At Aviva Stadium As Ticket Sales Hit 28,000

Sunday, May 17 will mark a piece of Irish Rugby history as Aviva Stadium plays host to the first stand-alone Guinness Women’s Six Nations match and a record crowd for a Women’s match in Ireland.

That record will be set on Sunday but already there are 28,000 tickets sold for what promises to be an incredible Super Sunday finale to the current Championship.

Ahead of the game Ireland captain Erin King was joined in Aviva Stadium by Eve Higgins, Stacey Flood, Sam Monaghan, Linda Djougang and Beibhinn Parsons for a media event.

Ireland fullback Stacey Flood spoke about growing up near the stadium and the thrill of now playing there,

“I grew up literally walking past it nearly every day. So it’s pretty amazing to see how far our game has come to not having any women’s games there to now, you see the Irish soccer team playing there so often.

“Hopefully that comes from our game as well, that we’ll get to play there a little bit more. I wouldn’t have gone to see any rugby games there when I was younger. But it was always just in the background of where I grew up.

“And I think it’s an amazing moment for women’s sport to have that there and be back at the home of rugby.”