‘I put rugby above everything, even school sometimes. I’d be missing classes’

‘I put rugby above everything, even school sometimes. I’d be missing classes’ – Ireland’s Ruth Campbell

Emerging lock says she is loving life as she continues to learn her trade on this World Cup journey

'Ruth Campbell’s authenticity has its own space in an Ireland squad with a broad range of personalities.' Photo: Harry Murphy/Sportsfile

Ruth Campbell lifts her arms to show her ink. There’s a large black centipede that twists around her left arm, the first tattoo she got in memory of her nan, Siobhán, two years ago and matches the centipede tattoo her mother has. On her right arm is a tattoo of a can of Campbell’s Soup.

Campbell likes the work of Andy Warhol, whose famous Campbell’s Soup Cans series was first exhibited 63 years ago.