Deborah-Anne De la Harpe and Aoife Mannion were handed full debuts by Pauw, with Marissa Sheva on the bench as Pauw eyed up the new talents available to her. De La Harpe will be the most worried of the trio after a disappointing half in which she did little to fulfil Pauw’s demand that recruits need to prove themselves better than her established cohort. Pauw made a trio of changes at half-time, the removals of Larkin and De La Harpe not unconnected with their limited effectiveness, one might assume. China – Huan, Qiaozhu, Linlin, Xiaoxue, Mengwen (Hayain 72), Xin, Rui, Lingwei (Lin Yan HT), Yuyi (Shadike 72), Shanshan (lina HT), Jiahui. Ireland – Brosnan; Mannion (Caldwell 70), Quinn, Connolly; De La Harpe (O’Gorman HT) Campbell, Agg (Littlejohn HT), O’Sullivan, McCabe, Larkin (Sheva HT), Payne (Carusa 75).
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