Ireland first competed in the
World Rugby Women's Sevens Series as an invited team in
2012–13. They entered the
2013 China Women's Sevens and won the Plate competition. After finishing as quarter-finalists in the
2013 Rugby World Cup Sevens, Ireland qualified to be a core team for
2013–14. Ireland did not participate in
2014–15 but returned as a core team in
2015–16 after finishing as runners up to
Japan in a qualifying tournament hosted at
UCD Bowl in August 2015. Ireland remained as a core team for
2016–17 and
2017–18. Ireland have never won a Cup at any of the Series tournaments but they have won Challenge Trophies, Plates and Bowls. Ireland's best performance in the Series came in 2016–17 when they finished ninth overall and gained their first ever wins against
Fiji,
England and
France. In April 2017
Sene Naoupu scored three tries as Ireland won the Challenge Trophy at the
2017 Japan Women's Sevens, defeating
Spain 26–7 in the final. In
2016 and
2017 they also won two successive Challenge Trophies at the
Dubai Women's Sevens.
Season by season ==Tournaments==