The Eire males’s sevens received the higher of England, successful 17-5 within the spherical of 16, to progress to the final eight on the Rugby World Cup Sevens in Cape City.
arry McNulty powered in between two defenders to provide them a 7-0 half-time lead, and additional scores from Mark Roche and Jordan Conroy sandwiched an Alex Davis sin-binning.
England, the silver medallists on the 2018 World Cup, had a late comfort strive from Charlton Kerr, however Eire deservedly took the decision to advance to Saturday’s quarter-finals.
They are going to now face hosts South Africa at 9.33pm Irish time. McNulty is exited to face the Blitzboks in entrance of a partisan Cape City crowd.
“To have South Africa at house can be such a particular recreation and I’m simply so excited to, hopefully, have the chance to expire towards them,” he mentioned, talking earlier than South Africa’s 32-5 win over Chile.
“I’m actually delighted for the boys and the efficiency they put in (towards England) to have the ability to get us to the following stage. It’s clearly do-or-die and we performed very well.
“There are some things to tighten up on however we’re actually pleased to be transferring on within the competitors. England are such a superb facet, we’ve been good companions on and off the sector for a few years of enjoying in Rugby Europe and enjoying in all the tournaments collectively, and the World Sequence.
“Now attending to play them in such an enormous match the place they’ve achieved so effectively during the last couple of World Cups. So it feels superb however, once more, with the way in which sevens goes and the way in which this competitors relies, now it’s on to the following one.”
James Topping’s costs had earlier crushed Portugal 24-0, and with the Eire Ladies successful 24-12 towards Brazil, each nationwide sides at the moment are by way of to the last-eight on the identical Sevens World Cup for the primary time.
The Eire ladies’s group received off to a dream begin with early transformed scores from Amee-Leigh Murphy Crowe and captain Lucy Mulhall.
Brazil confirmed their high quality by closing the hole to 14-12 simply earlier than half-time, stringing collectively tries from Bianca Silva and Mariana Nicolau as Eire got here below growing strain.
Nonetheless, Aiden McNulty’s costs roared again straight from the restart with a wonderful solo rating from Beibhinn Parsons, who broke free from inside her personal half, and Murphy Crowe made sure of the win within the thirteenth minute.
“We’re pleased with the win. It was a tricky struggle on the market. We knew it was going to be a tricky struggle towards Brazil, they’ve been a fantastic opponent of ours on the sequence through the years,” mentioned Murphy Crowe.
