The Ireland team for the long and tortuous journey for qualification for the Sevens World Series and Olympics has been announced and after a successful début outing in the GB7’s last weekend we’re pleased to say that the team features three Ulster players, two of whom were in action in Edinburgh.
Ireland, in their inaugural outing as the Wolfhounds, featured Ballynahinch’s Aaron Cairns and Dave McGuigan in their second place finish in their group. They progressed to the semi-final of the main competition where they faced a North of England team attached to Newcastle Falcons and despite going 12 – 0 up they butchered 3 other tries before the the English side came back to win 23 – 19.
This brought them into a 3rd place playoff against Samurai and despite an impressive try from Dave McGuigan to bring score to 21 – 19 to Ireland, with a couple of mins to go, they were piped at the post to go down 21 -24.
However, it was a performance that exceeded pre-tournament expectation and the . . .
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