The Ireland Women’s team can start looking forward to a World Cup playoff final next month.
Carla Ward’s side have beaten Kazakhstan 8-0 in Astana in the first leg of their semi-final.
Kyra Carusa scored twice while Chloe Mustaki, Emily Murphy and Abbie Larkin also got on the scoresheet in the first half.
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Sinead Hopcroft netted on her debut and Jamie Finn and Jessie Stapleton got the other goals.
Kazakhstan had a player sent off in the first half.
The second leg is in Cork on Tuesday night – the winners of the tie play Poland or Belgium for a place at next summer’s World Cup in Brazil.
