Show Notes
Connacht travel to the High Veldt to take on fellow Top 8 chasing Lions with a pep in their step after their stunning upset win in Cape Town and Ireland travel to France to try and get revenge for the recent World Cup quarter final defeat. We hear from John Muldoon, Hugh Gavin and Harry West from the Connacht camp while we also hear from Aoife Wafer and Beibhinn Parsons from the busy and loud press room after the win over Italy. William Davies and Niall Sheil join host Alan Deegan to review last weekends epic Saturday for all things Connacht and Irish Women's rugby and then do a deep dive into the extremely complicated run-in for the chase Connacht have to get into the Top 8, hence the much longer than normal podcast this week.
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