CAROLINE Woods, lead physiotherapist with the Northern Ireland senior football team, is looking forward to the start of the UEFA Euro 2020 qualifiers with two home matches getting the action underway at Windsor Park on Thursday, March 21st against Estonia followed, three days later, by Belarus.

The Strabane native warmed up for the qualifiers by taking part in the Golden Button Challenge in Gloucestershire last weekend and, coming home seventh, was the highest-placed Irish female rider among the 33 finishers. There were 27 Irish riders among the 62 starters over nearly three miles and 27 fences comprising big hedges, ditches and posts and rails.