Alison Miller

I don't know, Richie, you might be better able to help me describe it.

Just, I was down in Cork, living in Cork, so... They hate Con more than anyone.

obviously at the top level it's very competitive and if you look at the two teams you know Bowes and Blackrock for the teams that have been named for tomorrow a lot of those girls are currently you know under have played under 20 or have played provincial rugby for their provinces or are future internationals

So in that sense, yeah, it's a good, you know, there's a good standard.

It's probably lost, probably, you know, not to compare to men, but back, you know, in the 2000s where you could be playing maybe, you know, because the game had only just gone professional and you'd get guys dropping in and they didn't have a game for months or whatever.

So probably back in,

2015-16 you still had Irish internationals because they weren't professionalised playing week in week out and then the games were very competitive could be very competitive different stages in the competition so now with the introduction of the Celtic Cup that's kind of taken all the Irish internationals or anyone's on the page for talk about selection they're all they're not wouldn't be currently playing IELTS

And they just play Celtic League the whole way.

And then it's the Six Nations.

So, unfortunately, you've lost that.

And then what I would say is I'd...

not that I'd worry, but I'd worry about, you know, the predominantly Dublin clubs and you've got Tullow, women there are an AIL club in Tullow.

So they'd be, you know, anomaly in Carlow, rural club.

So they're like an anomaly in Leinster.

They're the only ones really, like we were in Portlaoise at the time.

And then you've got your, so really a lot of, very Dublin centralised, which everything, and even we're talking about maybe guys that traditionally only in GA that only played are, you know, still driving back.

So,

Yeah, you just like to see it kind of maybe around the country a little bit more spread out.

And then what tends to happen is all the players will go to the same club.

So then it just doesn't become as competitive as it can be.