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Aoife Wafer

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RTÉ Rugby Podcast
Aoife Wafer: Awards, accolades, and how Ireland can be the best in the world

And to, I suppose, not just be the first Irish person to do that, but like the first person in the Six Nations in general, like is pretty insane.

RTÉ Rugby Podcast
Aoife Wafer: Awards, accolades, and how Ireland can be the best in the world

Like because usually it's the likes of England that hold those records.

RTÉ Rugby Podcast
Aoife Wafer: Awards, accolades, and how Ireland can be the best in the world

So, yeah, it is really special.

RTÉ Rugby Podcast
Aoife Wafer: Awards, accolades, and how Ireland can be the best in the world

And I think like it just goes down to show like where Ireland is going and what we've kind of built over the last few years then too.

RTÉ Rugby Podcast
Aoife Wafer: Awards, accolades, and how Ireland can be the best in the world

yes and no like I think it was difficult I suppose to sit down and actually like reflect fully because like a lot of us who came back to the Prem still had another game or so to go like some of the girls are still playing in it I was trying to get back for that Tigers game but I picked up an injury in that Scotland game so I just I couldn't play the last game of the season for Quinns but like that's where your next focus goes it's on the team that you're

RTÉ Rugby Podcast
Aoife Wafer: Awards, accolades, and how Ireland can be the best in the world

you're with and how you can best help them, I suppose, to beat Tigers, which is who we were against.

RTÉ Rugby Podcast
Aoife Wafer: Awards, accolades, and how Ireland can be the best in the world

I've sat down and reflected on certain moments.

RTÉ Rugby Podcast
Aoife Wafer: Awards, accolades, and how Ireland can be the best in the world

The likes of that Aviva game is one that sticks out.

RTÉ Rugby Podcast
Aoife Wafer: Awards, accolades, and how Ireland can be the best in the world

I sat with my parents and we just chatted about how literally six-year-old Aoife would have died to be on that pitch.

RTÉ Rugby Podcast
Aoife Wafer: Awards, accolades, and how Ireland can be the best in the world

To get that dream come true is absolutely insane.

RTÉ Rugby Podcast
Aoife Wafer: Awards, accolades, and how Ireland can be the best in the world

I'm sure you've seen the photo that I put up from the Facebook post that my man put up 12 years ago.

RTÉ Rugby Podcast
Aoife Wafer: Awards, accolades, and how Ireland can be the best in the world

That kind of moment is something that has stuck with me for a long time.

RTÉ Rugby Podcast
Aoife Wafer: Awards, accolades, and how Ireland can be the best in the world

But then obviously you have the moments that weren't so good in the likes of that French game where we're sat here saying again that we could have and we should have bet them rather than actually beating them.

RTÉ Rugby Podcast
Aoife Wafer: Awards, accolades, and how Ireland can be the best in the world

So

RTÉ Rugby Podcast
Aoife Wafer: Awards, accolades, and how Ireland can be the best in the world

yeah like look at like i think i think there's really positive moments like you take it's the first time in years that we've done three home wins um and there were three good home wins probably you could argue that they they should have been even bigger home wins but um like it just shows there's still loads more to chase but we're we're competing and kind of testing tier one nations now which is which is somewhat where we want to be but we want to be beating them then too so yeah we just got to put it away now i guess

RTÉ Rugby Podcast
Aoife Wafer: Awards, accolades, and how Ireland can be the best in the world

i've just broken a knuckle but it's fine um just just a broken knuckle yeah it's grand yeah i did in the first couple minutes of the of the second half in the aviva um and sure like a bit of body strapping and you're grand like you know so yeah like i'm paying the price a little bit for it now but

RTÉ Rugby Podcast
Aoife Wafer: Awards, accolades, and how Ireland can be the best in the world

I still got to finish that game in the Aviva and if there was more games, I would have still been able to play those.

RTÉ Rugby Podcast
Aoife Wafer: Awards, accolades, and how Ireland can be the best in the world

I think now it's just with a bit of time off, get it right and hopefully then fly into the WXV.

RTÉ Rugby Podcast
Aoife Wafer: Awards, accolades, and how Ireland can be the best in the world

Well, I don't think it's necessarily putting pressure on ourselves anyway.

RTÉ Rugby Podcast
Aoife Wafer: Awards, accolades, and how Ireland can be the best in the world

I think most Irish teams might not say it out loud, but they definitely say it behind closed doors.