Women's Six Nations: Italy beat Ireland - as it happened

Summary

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Kick-off is at 15:00 BST
Ireland lost their opening game 38-17 against France
Italy were beaten 48-0 by England in their first game of the tournament

Live Reporting

Mark Strange

Watch: England thrash Italy despite Beckett red cardpublished at 14:48 British Summer Time 31 March
Ireland v Italy (15:00 BST)
Last weekend, 14-player England recorded a bonus-point win over Italy after Sarah Beckett was sent off in their Women's Six Nations opener in Parma.
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Women's Six Nations: Italy 0-48 England - highlights as Red Roses record bonus-point win
Watch: Ireland v Italy on the BBC iPlayerpublished at 14:45 British Summer Time 31 March
Ireland v Italy (15:00 BST)
You can watch Ireland versus Italy at the RDS, Dublin live on the BBC iPlayer
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Ireland v Italy (15:00 BST)
'Italy a game Ireland should win' - Moloney columnpublished at 14:42 British Summer Time 31 March
Ireland v Italy (15:00 BST)
Cliodhna Moloney believes that if Ireland can continue on the trajectory that they're currently headed in, then Italy at home is absolutely a game they should win.
She discusses the encouraging signs from the France loss, the need to improve the lineout and Ireland's kicking game in her latest column which you can read here.
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BBC Sports columnist Cliodhna Moloney
Watch: France run in five tries against Irelandpublished at 14:38 British Summer Time 31 March
Ireland v Italy (15:00 BST)
Ireland produced a spirited display in their opening Women's Six Nations game, but fell to a 38-17 loss against France in Le Mans.
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France open Women's Six Nations with a 38-17 win over Ireland.
Danaher keen for 'all-round' Irish performancepublished at 14:34 British Summer Time 31 March
Ireland v Italy (15:00 BST)
Ireland defence coach Declan Danaher was pleased with aspects of Ireland's display against France in their opening game, but still believes there is room for improvement.
"The positives for me are the effort, the work rate and the intent we showed [against France].
"We've had a good look at ourselves and what we can control better, things like stopping driving tries and little thing around system when we're under pressure," he explained.
"We know Italy will come potentially with a [lineout] drive as well so we have to be ready for that.
"It's all marrying up the different areas so that we get an all-round performance that you can put out at the weekend that you're proud of and I would love for us to be all-round at the weekend."
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Improving Ireland aiming for Italian victorypublished at 14:30 British Summer Time 31 March
Ireland v Italy (15:00 BST)
Good afternoon and welcome to our coverage of today's Women's Six Nations second round game between Ireland and Italy at the RDS.
Ireland, under new head coach Scott Bemand, produced a spirited display in their opening game against France which they lost 38-17.
They will be looking for their first victory of the campaign in Dublin as they welcome an Italian side who lost 48-0 against England in their first game of the tournament, although they did manage to beat Ireland 24-7 in last year's Six Nations.
The game will be live on the BBC iPlayer and BBC Sport website and we will have live text commentary of all the action.
Thanks for joining us, enjoy!
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