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.