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Ireland suffer defeat in men's Sevens quarter-final while women's side finish seventh

The men’s team also lost their fifth place play-off and will face into the seventh place play-off later today.

IRELAND LOST OUT to Australia in the quarter-final of the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series in Dubai, while the women’s outfit recovered from their difficult start with a win over Great Britain.

The men’s team suffered a 24-12 defeat to Australia, with the victors grabbing the opening try through Ben Dowling after just two minutes.

Ireland struck back with two tries on the bounce from Jordan Conroy and Terry Kennedy to take the lead. But Australia would have the final say as Corey Toole and Henry Patterson both ran in tries to seal the victory.

Ireland went on to face Great Britain in a fifth-place semi-final which also ended in defeat. Terry Kennedy, Ed Kelly, and Mark Roche all popped up with tries for Ireland but it wasn’t enough to prevent a 19-24 loss.

Meanwhile, the women bounced back from their defeats yesterday to record a 24-17 win over Great Britain, with Amee-Leigh Murphy Crowe, Claire Boles, Lucy Mulhall, Megan Burns all registering tries for Ireland.

They followed that by beating Canada 26-12 as Béibhinn Parsons bagged a brace of tries as the Ireland Women finished seventh.

It is Ireland’s highest finish in a World Series event since they were seventh in Kitakyushu, Japan in April 2019, some nine tournaments ago.

Parsons, who only turned 20 on Tuesday, helped herself to five tries during the competition.

Captain Lucy Mulhall, who led a squad with ten players aged between 18 and 23, said afterwards: “I think yesterday we weren’t there, we were a couple of percent off. Just our attention to detail and being a bit more clinical.

“But it’s really pleasing to see that improve today. It’s just great to be back on the World Series, a really young squad so those two wins today will teach (them) a lot about character, coming back from being down and then finishing on a high.

“We’ll get back, train hard and try and improve in Spain (in January). Yeah, just constantly learning. We’re quite a fresh group together so it’s just exciting to build for the future.”


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