No 'silver bullet' solutions to women's game problems - O'Sullivan

There is no "silver bullet" solution to the problems facing the development of women's rugby in the country, according to Eddie O’Sullivan.

The TikTok Women’s Six Nations comes to an end on Saturday with Ireland hosting Scotland in the Kingspan Stadium (8pm).

The competition fell between two independent reviews, one on the failure to qualify for the World Cup and an overall analysis of the sport in the country, which is yet to be published.

Greg McWilliams’ side will look for a second win against the Scots, who last year beat Ireland in the Parma qualifying tournament to end Irish hopes of getting to New Zealand, to bring to an end a difficult closing chapter of the new head coach’s tenure.

The team has had to deal with a number of retirements and injuries, and also the controversy of the departure of the sevens contingent to play a World Series event.

Meanwhile, England, who beat Ireland 69-0 on Sunday, and France are more than a couple of levels ahead, while Wales and more recently Italy have contracted players ahead of their World Cup campaigns.

The suggestion of a Women's United Rugby Championship was also mooted earlier this week and there is now talk of Ireland introducing some form of 15s contracts but O’Sullivan, the former Ireland head coach, said it would take a long time to sort out the issues within the game.

Speaking on the RTÉ Rugby podcast, he said: "There are a lot of things to be worked out and it doesn’t mean they can’t be done but people throwing out 'silver bullet’ solutions, ‘let’s do this and everything will be fine in six months’.

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