May 15 : When Ireland’s women last played at the home of Irish rugby, they walked out to a stadium emptying after Brian O’Driscoll’s farewell, but this weekend they return as the headline act rather than an afterthought, and in front of a record crowd. Sunday’s Six Nations match against Scotland is the first standalone women’s rugby fixture at Dublin’s Aviva Stadium, with over 30,000 tickets already sold. The record attendance for a women’s rugby match in Ireland was set less than a month ago when 9,206 watched Ireland beat Italy in Galway. Italy were also the opposition during Ireland’s only previous appearance at the Aviva, in 2014. Billed as a double-header, with the men also playing Italy, a sell-out crowd watched O’Driscoll, one of the country’s greats, play his last international home game for Ireland. Fiona Coghlan, the women’s captain that day, has bittersweet memories. “We didn’t get changed in the main stadium, and I remember to get into the stadium, walking down the tunnel where normally the buses go,” Coghlan told Reuters. “A …