‘Hopefully other mums can do it in the future’ – how Julie-Ann Russell is balancing Ireland and motherhood

But later today the Galway girl will find what she was looking for.

The Irish squad touch down in Cork for what will be, at last, their final assignment of a never-ending season against France on Tuesday.

There, Russell will be reunited with baby Rosie, the one-year-old girl to whom she dedicated Ireland’s first goal of 2024, at the very last moment of their seventh match of the hitherto barren calendar year.

“I can’t f*****g wait!” the Galway girl says, still naturally high on adrenaline deep into a Norwich night which had ended, so dramatically, and upon such a curious note.

An England team winning but wearing frustrated faces betraying loss, while their utterly cowed opponents were relatively raucous despite defeat.

So many contrasting emotions.

And so many feelings coursing through the veins of the Ireland squad’s only mother.

“Absolutely,” she puffs. “I never thought I’d see the day.

“I’m proud that I’m probably one of the first people to do it in the Ireland…

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