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Irish Mirror
Irish Mirror
Sport
Vincent Whelan

Ireland's rugby sevens men earn silver medal at World Series after final loss to Fiji

The Irish men's team are coming home from Toulouse with silver medals from the rugby sevens world series today.

While they eventually came up short to world-leaders in the condensed game in Fiji by a scoreline of 29-17, James Topping's squad can reflect on more new ground broken for the Irish setup having previously qualified for our debut Olympics last year.

They comprehensively defeated hosts France 24-7 early in the afternoon - even leading to some bad tempered behaviour from the losers towards the end.

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