Ireland v Australia : All you need to know

Ireland v Australia, Saturday 2.30pm, Kingspan Stadium

Ireland Women take on Australia Women as the IRFU kicks off its 150th anniversary celebrations.

The game serves as a warm-up for the upcoming WXV1 series in which Scott Bemand's charges face New Zealand, USA and Canada in Vancouver in late September and October.

Here's all you need to know.

RADIO

Live commentary on Saturday Sport on RTÉ Radio 1 with Michael Corcoran and Tania Rosser.

ONLINE

Follow our live match tracker on rte.ie/sport and the RTÉ News app.

TV

The game is live on TG4.

WEATHER

Light rain, moderate breeze in about 17C during the game.

It's a first-ever meeting between the teams outside a World Cup where they have met four times in total going back to a initial clash in 1998.

Australia have won all bar one of those games with Ireland claiming a narrow victory in the pool stages of the 2017 World Cup.

Ireland, ranked ninth, were last in action in April when they beat Scotland 15-12 in Belfast to claim third place in the Six Nations, while Australia beat Fiji and lost heavily to New Zealand in July.

There are four uncapped players in the Ireland 23 with Vicky Elmes Kinlan and Ruth Campbell starting and Siobhán McCarthy and Erin King on the bench. Six of the squad were part of the Ireland Sevens Olympics party.

In total there are seven changes from the starting XV that beat the Scots, with Katie Corrigan, Béibhinn Parsons and co-captain Sam Monaghan among those missing through injury.

The Wallaroos, fifth in the world rankings and in WXV2, have three uncapped players on the bench in Alapeta Ngauamo, Tiarah Minns and Lucy Dinnen, while Siokapesi Palu captains the side.

TEAMS

Ireland: Eimear Considine; Vicky Elmes Kinlan, Aoife Dalton, Enya Breen, Amee-Leigh Murphy