Mee to make Wales bow against Ireland as both teams ring Six Nations changes

  • Scarlets gets nod under interim Wales coach Sherratt
  • Sheehan to captain Ireland in absence of Doris

The Scarlets back Ellis Mee will make his Test debut when Wales begin life after Warren Gatland against the Six Nations title favourites Ireland on Saturday, while Dan Sheehan has been named captain of Simon Easterby’s much-changed visiting team in Cardiff.

The Nottingham-born wing Mee, whose mother is from Newport, is among eight personnel changes made by the interim head coach, Matt Sherratt, following Wales’s 22-15 loss to Italy.

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Harassment of Emma Raducanu reminds us women still bear brunt of abuse | Emma John

Women in sport are left exposed by the lack of backing that men receive, and by toxic attitudes that must be called out

If you watched any of Emma Raducanu’s Tuesday match against Karolina Muchova, it was probably only the two clips, stitched together neatly for the news highlights. Raducanu approaching the umpire. Raducanu wiping away tears with a towel.

An emotional Raducanu is an instant headline, although this wasn’t a case of injury or frustration. Having seen a man in the crowd whose off-court behaviour had already concerned her, she was doing the sensible thing and reporting it. The Daily Mail reported that she was “reduced to cowering behind the umpire’s chair”. What a brilliantly multi-purpose use of language: paternalistic readers can get heroically angry on her behalf while the others write her off as a snowflake.

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