Leinster Women head coach Tania Rosser wants the Irish provinces to join England's Premiership Women's Rugby league in the future.
The former Ireland scrum-half was speaking after her side beat Munster 27-7 in Belfast yesterday to win the Vodafone Women’s Interprovincial Championship in the most entertaining and high quality renewal in the series' history.
The eight-game tournament was notable for high standard on show, with an average of just under eight tries per game.
Ireland women head coach Scott Bemand called up 10 uncapped players to his training squad ahead of the upcoming international window, mostly based off their showings in the Interprovincial tournament.
In addition, four of the six players called up as training panellists all impressed in recent weeks.
While conceding that a push to play competitions in the UK was a bit away, Rosser insisted that it’s something that should be looked at.
"I think the Interpros are really important, it just shows there today the class that we can play," Rosser (above) told TG4 when asked about the next step forward for the women's game.
"We need to get into professionalism, we need to play in the UK and start competing at that level.
"We can’t expect our players to go straight from this into international. I just don’t think it’s where we are at.
"It would be good to get over and play in the UK league and see what we can do.
"If the provinces could go semi-pro or pro and start looking after these players that put on a showcase like this, it would be good."
Last week the IRFU announced the details of 37 central contracts across the women’s XVs and Sevens programmes.
Meanwhile, Munster head coach Fiona Hayes praised Leinster for their victory but felt her own side, who had won all three of their games before yesterday, didn’t perform to their usual standards.
"You have to take your hat off to Leinster, they really showed up today," she said.
"It’s been a long summer, there’s been a lot of good rugby on show.
"For us to finish like that will be disappointing but those young kids coming through, they have so much time in the game to keep growing and that’s what’s exciting for Munster rugby.
"This doesn’t define us, there are heads down, there are tears and that’s all part of the game and they have to learn. Maybe they didn’t show up today. We have to look at that and understand why they didn’t."
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