5 NATIONS FENCING CHAMPIONSHIPS, SQUAD PROFILE
Brian Boru members accounted for half of the Epee teams (men’s and women’s), in addition to training mate Isobel-Radford Dodd from Pentathlon Ireland. There is a broad mix of Five Nations experience levels, for women’s Epee Alisha Mullen has been on two of the last three Five Nations squads (England 2016 and Ireland 2019) and Anna-Lise Mion was on the Squad in 2017 when the Five Nations were in Cardiff. This is Isobel’s first Senior Five Nations but she was on the first two Junior Five Nations squads including the last in 2019 held in Maynooth.
For Men’s Epee the Five Nations old lag is Dawid Kulka, who has appeared on two of the last three squads in 2016 (Manchester) and 2017 (Wales) and on the All Ireland Veteran Four Nations squad the last two outings in Dublin (2023) and Bristol (2022). For Duncan Salter this is his first time on the Senior Irish Five Nations squad but has been a regular on the Veteran Four Nations squad for the last 10 years. The Veteran Four Nations doesn’t skip years and have managed two full cycles over the last 10 years. To young yet the Veteran team Tom has like Dawid been on the Senior Squad twice, the last two outings in 2017 and 2019.
