Caitriona played 66 times for Ireland Women from 1995 to 2008, scoring 1,450 runs at 27.88, including nine fifties.

She played her first women’s league match aged 8, and was on the Leinster Under-19s squad at age 11. A top-order batter, Caitriona played in three World Cups – her 68 against Pakistan is also the highest score by an Irishwoman in Test cricket.

She was top-scorer against England in 2001, when her 35 helped Ireland to a memorable win in the European Championship, and when the ICC unveiled their ODI world rankings in 2008 she was the only player from an Associate nation to make the top 20.