By one of those coincidences that come to be known as fateful, she discovered rugby and an immense talent for the sport while a student in WIT. An accidental rugby career took flight in 2009 when she starred on the wing for Portlaoise and caught the attention of Connacht.
A year after that first foray into club rugby, Miller was called up to the Irish squad and she made her Six Nations debut against Italy in February 2010. That was the beginning of a journey that has brought her all the way through a historic Grand Slam campaign, in which she was the leading try scorer, to the cusp of her first tangle with the Black Ferns, on Tuesday evening.
Granted as daughter of the great Bobby Miller (RIP), Alison was a tapper at anything she turned her hand to.
This Australian rugby team that Ireland are playing today have played 5 test matches in 3 years. 3 in June 2017 and 2 in October 2016. Outside of that nothing.
I have a sneaking regard for him, he scored a try v Wales in 1996 which was crucial to me winning a rugby competition with the prize of a trip to Hong Kong.
I had great admiration for him as a player but I subsequently had dealings with him and found him to be a massive massive cunt, there’s not many people that I’d have less time for TBH
David Corkery is 110% correct. Full contact rubby is not for ladies. The argument that women can do what they wish with their bodies is absolutely false as ironically enough the feminists make sure of that.