Connacht’s Allison Miller shone in the Marbella sun, bagging five tries, in one of Ireland Women’s best performances in an International 7’s tournament to date.
Despite not winning a trophy this time round Ireland showed an dramatic improvement in their performance qualifying for the main Cup Semi Finals for the first time, finishing fourth overall in the 12 team Women’s European Grand Prix.
A strong first day laid the foundations for Ireland’s success with Ireland winning three out of their four matches. In fact the competition got of to the best of starts with a comprehensive 31 – 5 win against Scotland. Allison Miller opened the scoring and further tries came from Jenny Murphy, Sophie Spence, Claire Molloy, Claire Keohane and Amy Davis with Keohane adding two conversions in the six try romp.
Ireland went on to beat Portugal 19 – 0 in their second match with Keohane adding a try and two conversions to her personal tally alongside tries from Lynne Cantwell and Molloy before a narrow 10 – 7 defeat to France with Niamh . . .
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