Ending Six Nations With Home Wins 'huge' For Ireland

Ireland kicking coach Gareth Steenson says closing retired nan Women's Six Nations pinch 2 location wins would beryllium "huge" for nan squad aft past weekend's deflating conclusion by France.

Chasing a first triumph connected French soil, Ireland had 3 tries disallowed during a ascendant first-half show successful Clermont connected Saturday earlier nan hosts seized power aft nan interval to triumph 26-7.

Ireland big Wales successful Belfast connected 9 May earlier welcoming Scotland to Aviva Stadium connected 17 May having hammered Italy 57-20 successful their first location crippled successful Galway.

"We make nary bones astir it, 3 location wins was nan extremity astatine nan commencement and spell complete and possibly put successful a large capacity and effort to nick 1 distant from home," Steenson told BBC Sport NI.

"It's sewage to beryllium wherever nan group's at. You've sewage to want to spell and win. The capabilities are there.

"I deliberation nan measurement nan fixtures person fallen. England first up, it was bully to play that large crippled and get america into that title to spot wherever we're at. Then we spell to Galway and put successful that capacity against a bully Italian team, scoring 7 tries successful nan first half. Conditions were difficult but we adapted really good to it.

"And past to put nan conflict up that we did [in France], it benignant of lined up that you needed 2 bully Test matches to spell into what was efficaciously arsenic reliable a crippled arsenic those girls person experienced.

"The week disconnected has travel arsenic bully timing for us. We tin astir apt touch up connected a fewer things starring into nan Wales crippled successful Belfast. We dream we get a bully support retired location because nan girls are playing a really bully marque of rugby and they've been feeding disconnected nan crowds."