These intriguing Tests against the USA, Japan, and South Africa provide a platform to build on what the Ireland squad achieved when finishing third in the 2025 Guinness Women's Six Nations.
Their home form was particularly impressive, comprehensively outgunning Italy in Galway with their most points and tries scored in a home Championship match, and keeping the momentum up against Wales in Belfast.
A week later, Scott Bemand's side brought the curtain down on a memorable season with a resounding 54-5 victory over Scotland, in their first ever standalone game at the Aviva Stadium.
A record crowd of 31,294 turned out to mark that historic occasion at Irish Rugby HQ in fitting fashion, and another notable first awaits this Sunday when the Ireland Women make their Tallaght Stadium debut.
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Hoping to hit the ground running against the USA, the world's eighth-ranked team, Ireland's preparations included hosting Canada at the IRFU High Performance Centre over a three-day training block earlier this month.
A year on from their Rugby World Cup exploits, and with the newly-added Alma Atagamen and Olivia McKinley (pictured below with Katie Whelan) making it nine uncapped players in the 36-strong squad, Bemand is quietly confident they can maintain the upward curve.
"We've got the talent now and the capability to play a couple of different ways, and a really good brand of rugby," he said.
"It is exciting, it's fast-paced. It's got power, it's got movement. We are going to be able to kick the ball, we're going to be able to field the ball.
"It feels like we are on the cusp of something. It won't just happen because each year teams will take us a bit more seriously and those final percents are always the hardest percents to come by - but the harder we try, the better we will get, the luckier we'll get, the bounce of the ball will go the other way.
"The players turn up every day, every week, trying to get better, and it is a pleasure to watch and to be a part of."
The next few weeks offers a big window of opportunity for those players seeking their first international caps, including some of those who shone brightest during the recent Vodafone Women's Interprovincial Championship.
Munster hooker Beth Buttimer (pictured above) tops that list, following her excellent eight-try haul as the Reds retained the title, while her provincial team-mate, Caitríona Finn, is pushing hard at out-half, and Connacht's 20-year-old back rower Jemima Adams Verling has been ultra consistent in her performances.
Gracing the 2029 Rugby World Cup in Australia is obviously a huge target for these talented youngsters, most of whom will be in their mid-20s by the time the tournament comes around.
"We're at the start of a World Cup cycle now. The Six Nations, we wanted to keep the momentum from the World Cup going and this is the sort of turning of the page," acknowledged Bemand.
"Looking three years ahead, what do we need to get under our belts before then? We need to develop our depth and see who is coming through.
"We've got three home games coming up now in the Global Series. We want to have the ability to go deeper in tournaments, so you need to build experience.
"Workload placed on a narrow group of people, rugby being rugby, you're going to pick up bumps and bruises and what have you, so we need to develop our depth. We need to see who's coming through.
"(In) three years' time, there is the potential of something like 28 caps to play for, so if you're a new cap coming in now and you go to the World Cup you have the potential of 25-plus caps.
"So we're starting to see talent and understand what talent we need to bring through, and this represents the first chance to do that."
You only have to look back to the 2024 WXV1 tournament in Canada when Ireland last played the US Women's Eagles, and how current captain Erin King and Ruth Campbell were breaking onto the 15s international scene back then.
King was a try scorer that day in a 26-14 triumph over the American side, and just the following month, she was honoured as the World Rugby Women's 15s Breakthrough Player of the Year.
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The 22-year-old has used former co-captains Edel McMahon and Sam Monaghan, who are both currently sidelined, with the latter picking up an Achilles injury recently, as wise counsel during her first year as Ireland captain.
Monaghan's injury-enforced absence for the entire WXV Global Series is a significant blow, but it hands other players the chance to press for selection and also show their own leadership qualities in a key position.
While disappointed to see the Navan woman join the injury list, Bemand highlighted: "It creates the next opportunity for the leader that's already in the group and the next second row to come through.
"We have been developing depth quietly in the background. We're starting to build strength on our shores.
"Those girls get an opportunity to train with us and put their hand up for selection, and hopefully we will see a few of those in this series."
