While Galwey has moved away, Ciara Griffin is about as firmly rooted as any person could be to home. The daughter of a rugby-loving farmer Denis and education-centred teacher Kathleen has ended up following in the footsteps of both. "Rugby was always in the house," she said at the Ireland team base at the Carlton Hotel in Blanchardstown. Ireland captain Ciara Griffin with parents Denis and Kathleen, sister Fiona and boyfriend Damien O’Sullivan. "It was massive, a culmination of all the slogging away, the years of hard work, the years of having a dream.

Source: Irish Independent February 01, 2020 02:26 UTC