Ireland Sevens: Olympic Dream Lives On.

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The Olympic dream lives on for Ireland Men and Ireland Women Sevens sides with both qualifying for the 2016 World Rugby Global Olympic Repêchage next June.

Ireland Women qualified in second place having progressed to the final via a 40 – 0 win against Germany in the quarter-final and a 28 – 5 win against Portugal in the semi-final. In the final they came up against, their old nemesis, Spain, who once again pipped them to the post, a last minute converted try giving the Spanish a 26 – 19 win.

In the case of the Women it was a case of achieving their stated aim of Global Repêchage qualification though they will be slightly disappointed that they didn’t lay down a marker for next season against the Spanish.

The Men, it has to be said, exceeded expectations with their third place finish. I’d put them down for fifth place in my preview and considering they had qualified as bottom seeds I thought that was being generous.

However they . . .

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