The Ireland Women’s team overcame the Ukraine 38-7 to finish third in Pool B and qualify for the quarter-finals of the Rugby Europe Women’s Sevens Grand Prix Series tournament in Kazan, Russia. Anthony Eddy’s side will face England in the last-eight tomorrow.<\/p>\n
Ireland included two international Sevens newcomers in their starting line-up for the Spain game – captain Lucy Mulhall and Louise Galvin, the Kerry Ladies footballer who has joined the Sevens programme.<\/p>\n
Jenny Murphy, who is coming back from a shoulder injury she sustained at the recent Amsterdam Sevens tournament, was replaced in the playing squad by Laura Lee Walsh. “Jenny is just not 100% yet and should be ready for Brive next weekend,” explained team manager Gillian McDarby. “She is a big loss to us, however Laura Lee Walsh adds great depth to the squad.”….. full story on >> http:\/\/www.irishrugby.ie\/news\/34805.php#.VXxxRflViko<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Ireland Women’s team overcame the Ukraine 38-7 to finish third in Pool B and qualify for the quarter-finals of the Rugby Europe Women’s Sevens Grand Prix Series tournament in Kazan, Russia. Anthony Eddy’s side will face England in the last-eight tomorrow. Ireland included two international Sevens newcomers in their starting line-up for the Spain […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,1],"tags":[8523,4050,4447,3959,16797,5963,6736],"class_list":["post-91268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ireland-women","category-irish-rugby","tag-europe","tag-ireland","tag-quarter-finals","tag-rugby","tag-six-try","tag-success","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91268"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91273,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91268\/revisions\/91273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}