Irish Rugby and Sevens

.....and then the men's beat Samoa 14-12 with the last play of the game.

Did the team look good or was it just a Amee Murphy Crowe show.

There was a lot of talk we were reliant too much on her after she missed an event through injury.

She got things rolling with a moment of individual skill leading to the opening try but from then on in it was a full team effort.

We are likely to play the winner of that game in a QF

Correction we are likely to play the lower of that game in a qf. Great Britain was the loser.

Disappointing as Great Britain and ourselves would be vying for qualification through Europe if we don't qualify through the sevens series so I would have preferred to avoid them here.

France come back to beat Australia and we concede a try to Brazil at the end results in us now being paired with Australia again in the next round.

66-0 victory over Japan for the mens but more than likely facing New Zealand in the next round.

France win.

So tomorrow there’s an Olympic qualification mini tournament now

Ireland v Fiji

GB v Japan (who are useless)

Winners play each other for spot at the Olympics

Heard a commentator say it would come down to points difference, assuming it's over the course of the entire series.

Great to see women qualify.

Men have 2 shots remaining. european games in Krakow end of June and repechage next year

With the end of the womens world series I just thought I'd have a look at the stats pagea on the HSBC sevens website.

Eve Higgins(5), Lucy Mulhall(7) and Amee Leigh Murphy Crowe(9) are in the DHL impact player table top 10.

Amee Leigh Murphy Crowe is the player on the top 10 impact player table with the least amount of games with 32 matches. All other players in the top 10 have 40 or more matches with 42 matches being the total (6 games per world series event and 7 events).

We scored 107 tries (7th in the league) and scored 64 conversions 59.8%.

Our top try scorers are Amee Leigh Murphy Crowe with 30, Beibhin Parsons with 23, Eve Higgins with 19 and Lucy Mulhall with 11. The remaining 24 tries were spread among 7 scorers.

Lucy Mulhall is the only goal kicker to score for Ireland. I'm not sure if this means she has kicked every kick or if others just failed to score.

Lucy Mulhall is Ireland's top tackler with 92. Eve Higgins and Amee Leigh Murhpy Crowe are second and third with 67 and 64 respectively.

Across the seven world series events we played 42 games and used 16 players. 3 players played all 42 games (Parsons, Higgins and Mulhall).

11 players played more than 28 games and 5 played 17 or less. Given that in a usual event theres a 12 man squad I guess the 11 who have played 28 or more games are the first teamers with 1 spot available based on who can push their way into the squad.

In every world series event at least 10 of core 11 players were named in the squad.

In terms of age the core 11 player squad ranges from 19 year old Erin King to 29 year old Lucy Mulhall. Stacey Flood (26) and Amee Leigh Murphy Crowe (28) are the next oldest players after Mulhall.

Of the 5 players with less than 17 games this season, 1 was making their sevens debut while 3 were veterans with 50 or more caps.

IRELAND MEN’S SEVENS Squad (HSBC London Sevens, Twickenham Stadium, Saturday, May 20 – Sunday, May 21, 2023):

Harry McNulty (UCD RFC) (capt)

Chay Mullins (Galway Corinthians RFC/Connacht/IQ Rugby)

Zac Ward (Ballynahinch RFC)

Matthew McDonald (IQ Rugby)

Niall Comerford (UCD RFC/Leinster)

Connor O’Sullivan (Lansdowne FC/IQ Rugby)

Billy Dardis (Terenure College RFC)

Hugo Lennox (Skerries RFC)

Sean Cribbin (Suttonians RFC)

Bryan Mollen (UCD RFC)

Gavin Mullin (UCD RFC)

Dylan O’Grady (UCD RFC)

Sean Galvin (Lansdowne FC)

IRELAND MEN’S SEVENS Schedule – HSBC London Sevens:

Saturday, May 20 –

• Ireland Men v Fiji – 10.23am
• Ireland Men v Japan – 1.31pm
• Ireland Men v Argentina – 5.35pm

Sunday, May 21 –

• Play-off matches.

https://www.irishrugby.ie/2023/05/26/ireland-mens-sevens-to-compete-at-inaugural-nyc-sevens-this-summer/

Dont know yet but theyve big plans as you mention for expansion and hope to go further. they want private investment into teams to create a series so we could see international sides and then private funded sides as well

France Ireland and Great Britain in the same pool? Not sure how the seeding for that was determined but a bad group stage could see Ireland's mens olympic qualification hopes crippled.

The women can probably choose to treat this as a development event.

Ireland Men’s 7s Squad – Rugby Europe 7s Championship

Jordan Conroy (Buccaneers RFC)

Niall Comerford (UCD RFC/Leinster)

Billy Dardis (Terenure College RFC)

Jack Kelly (Dublin University FC)

Terry Kennedy (St. Mary’s College RFC)

Liam McNamara (IQ Rugby)

Harry McNulty (UCD RFC)

Bryan Mollen (UCD RFC)

Gavin Mullin (UCD RFC)

Dylan O’Grady (UCD RFC)

Mark Roche (Lansdowne FC)

Andrew Smith (Clontarf FC/Leinster)

Zac Ward (Ballynahinch RFC)

Ireland Women’s 7s Squad – Rugby Europe 7s Championship

Claire Boles (Railway Union RFC)

Megan Burns (Blackrock College RFC)

Stacey Flood (Railway Union RFC) Captain

Clare Gorman (Old Belvedere RFC)

Katie Heffernan (Railway Union RFC)

Eve Higgins (Railway Union RFC)

Erin King (Old Belvedere RFC)

Vicki Elmes Kinlan (Wicklow RFC)

Emily Lane (Blackrock College RFC)

Kate Farrell McCabe (Suttonians RFC)

Anna McGann (Railway Union RFC)

Béibhinn Parsons (Blackrock College RFC)

Rugby Europe 7s Championship Series – Algarve 7s

Women’s Series

Friday, June 9 – 

Ireland v Sweden, 10:44 (local), 9:44 UTC

Ireland v Germany, 15:44 (local), 14;44 UTC

Saturday, June 10 – 

Ireland v Spain, 9:44 (local), 8:44 UTC

Men’s Series

Friday, June 9 – 

Ireland v Belgium, 12:52 (local), 11;52 UTV

Ireland v France, 17:30 (local), 16:30 UTC

Saturday, June 10 – 

Ireland v Great Britain, 11;52 (local), 10:52 UTC

Andrew Smith got a yellow card early. Georgia picking up a try during the sin bin.

I'm watching it here

Ireland just going 7-5 up (ok i'm assuming the 7 but it should be an easy conversion).

european games squad named

Jordan Conroy (Buccaneers RFC)

Niall Comerford (UCD RFC/Leinster)

Billy Dardis (Terenure College RFC)

Jack Kelly (Dublin University FC)

Terry Kennedy (St Mary’s College RFC)

Liam McNamara (IQ Rugby)

Harry McNulty (UCD RFC)

Bryan Mollen (Lansdowne FC)

Gavin Mullin (UCD RFC)

Dylan O’Grady (UCD RFC)

Mark Roche (Lansdowne FC)

Andrew Smith (Clontarf FC/Leinster)

Zac Ward (Ballynahinch RFC).

under 18 squads boys and girls named for european championships

Much larger boys squads to take into account theyve played less 7s as theres been some girls interpro 7s played this season

https://www.munsterrugby.ie/domestic_news/ireland-u18-girls-7s-training-squad-announced/

Is it one spot or more up for grabs?

66-0 win over Poland.

Italy next. Germany tomorrow before playoffs.

finished 38-7