Ireland women’s rugby sevens captain Lucy Mulhall Rock has announced her retirement following the team’s Olympic Games campaign.
The former Wicklow gaelic footballer captained Ireland to an eighth-place finish at the Paris Games in what was the women team’s first qualification for an Olympics.
Mulhall Rock said it had been “the honour of my life to play and captain” the Ireland team over the past 10 years.
“But now it’s time for me to step aside and watch my amazing team-mates and friends take this team forward and onto bigger and better things,” she added.
Mulhall Rock said. that she had fallen “head over heels in love with sevens since it first came into my life in 2014”.
“It’s taught me so much over the years.”
An injury sustained in Ireland’s second pool game against South Africa led to her missing the concluding defeats against Australia, France and Great Britain.
Mulhall Rock made 213 appearances for Ireland in the World Sevens Series.