Scotland Game Key For Ireland World Cup 'momentum'

Niamh O'Dowd says triumph complete Scotland successful Saturday's last Women's Six Nations lucifer tin springiness Ireland momentum heading into nan World Cup.

Ireland recreation to Edinburgh looking to unafraid 3rd spot successful nan standings down England and France.

Scott Bemand's broadside person won successful Italy and Wales to extremity their tally of 4 years without an distant triumph successful nan Six Nations.

"This play is simply a really bully opportunity to hopefully decorativeness nan run pinch immoderate momentum," said prop O'Dowd, who returns to nan starting line-up aft missing past weekend's triumph successful Wales because of a enarthrosis injury.

"We've had 2 bully wins this year. Even past weekend, we put 40 points connected Wales and location were still areas we decidedly could person sharpened up.

"There is rather a immense quality from 2 years agone [when Ireland mislaid 31-5 to Wales and 36-10 successful Scotland] and we'll beryllium hoping to put immoderate points connected them distant from location this clip arsenic well."

After nan Six Nations, Ireland will hole for nan World Cup pinch warm-up fixtures astatine location to Scotland and Canada successful August.

The Irish will past look New Zealand, Spain and Japan successful excavation 3 erstwhile nan World Cup gets nether measurement later that month.

"Everyone will past get retired of here, get backmost to their friends and families for a while for a break," added O'Dowd, 25.

"We've past a spot of distant training, travel backmost successful June and deed nan crushed running."