Ireland star Aoife Wafer believes this current squad has the ability to do something 'really special' at the Women's Rugby World Cup in August. Following Saturday's defeat by England, Scott Bemand's squad is aiming to finish the Six Nations championship on a high, with away games against Wales and Scotland in the coming weeks. Ireland will then turn their attention to the World Cup on English soil later this year. The national team failed to qualify for the last tournament in 2022 and four years before that they struggled at a home World Cup, Ireland finishing seventh in the standings. But there is renewed hope that this young and talented group can follow in the footsteps of the Ireland squad which reached the last four of the 2014 global showpiece, beating New Zealand en route. 'Going into a World Cup, I think Ireland can do something really special,' said Leinster star Aoife, who was speaking as an Aer Lingus ambassador on Monday. 'Obviously we have to get through the pool stages first and we have three big tests in New Zealand, Spain and Japan, all of which we've played quite recent enough but they all bring very different challenges and they're different teams. 'But look, I think we can go quite far but it's something that on the day you have to be your very best and I think the World Cup can be a very tough challenge in terms of if you're off a bit, that's you gone and you're out of the competition. 'I think we saw with perhaps the lads in terms of, there were couple of things, a couple of decisions didn't go their way and that was it, they were gone. View this post on Instagram 'But the women's team have got further than the men's, they have reached a World Cup semi-final. We plan on, hopefully, going further than that.' Ireland are currently third in the Six Nations standings following their 49-5 loss to England but Aoife and her teammates were heartened by a battling performance in Cork. Now, they have Wales, who are winless after three rounds and rooted to the bottom of the table, in their sights at Rodney Parade on Sunday. 'I think we still have to respect Wales. I know the competition probably hasn't got off to the start they wanted but Wales are very dominant if you let them be and you can see it in some of their games,' said the Wexford native. 'Their set-piece, their scrum, even their maul, their pick-and-go game can be very dominant if you let them be. 'So, I think we will still need to be that defensive element and just saying "no" to crossing our line and not letting them over but I'm excited to see what the plan will be this week in terms of attacking because I reckon we could get after them in a couple of spots.' View this post on Instagram Aoife has been a shining light in this Irish team in recent seasons with her powerful ball carrying winning admirers across the game. The 22-year-old is currently playing her rugby with Leinster but Aoife admitted she would be tempted to test her mettle in the illustrious Premiership Women's Rugby league. The English semi-pro league is a standard of competition above anything the Irish game has to offer at the moment and Wafer has not ruled out joining the likes of Neve Jones, Sam Monaghan, Dorothy Wall and Edel McMahon by plying her trade in that competition. 'It's something I've definitely looked at over the last while,' she added. 'I decided to stay because of college to get another year done and a couple of other factors. 'It's something I'd be interested in and it would be silly of me not to look at it with so many world-class internationals in the Prem.