Ireland national rugby sevens team
No Player Years Tries
1 Jordan Conroy 2018- 45
2 Terry Kennedy 2018- 24
3 James Topping 2001 13
4 Jack Kelly 2019- 12
5 Matt Mostyn 2001 10
The Ireland national rugby sevens team competes annually in European competition. Ireland participates in the Rugby Europe Sevens Grand Prix Series, having been promoted to the Grand Prix competition after winning the 2016 Rugby Europe Trophy division. Ireland has previously competed in individual tournaments within World Rugby Sevens Series, and has stated its goal of winning promotion to core team status in the World Series. Ireland also competes in quadrennial rugby sevens tournaments. Ireland has competed in most Rugby World Cup Sevens since the 1993 inaugural event. The team also competes during European qualifying phases for the Summer Olympics, but failed to qualify for the inaugural rugby sevens competition at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Following the announcement in 2009 that rugby sevens would be an Olympic sport beginning in 2016, the Irish Rugby Football Union (IRFU) created a men's rugby sevens program in 2014. The IRFU announced in 2015 its goal to field a national sevens team that has a chance to qualify for the 2016 Summer Olympics and joins the Sevens World Series by 2017.