“Obviously there's a positive feeling after a good performance like that but it's about the bigger picture, really, and it's about continuing to grow,” Doris said on Thursday following a rain-hit captain’s run training session at Aviva Stadium. “It's game by game. “There's a lot of hard work gone in over the last couple of weeks since then and some really good training days. We've trained here against the (Ireland Under-) 20s, which was good to get a run against them. “I'm sure they've built quite a bit of belief through how they've trained, through some of the pictures they've seen.

Source: Irish Examiner March 05, 2026 15:55 UTC