Irish volleyball team makes history at European championship

The Ireland U16s girls volleyball team created history at the European Championships Qualifying stage today as the girls in green beat Iceland to claim 5th place and become the first Irish Junior Volleyball team to win an international match.

Led by the excellent Maria Jones Ireland cruised the first set winning 25-13, before Iceland hit back dominating the second (7-25) in super quick time. Ireland re-grouped and were driven by Grace Moloney who dominated play with neat passing and pinpoint volleys. The impressive setter Shannon Kehoe teed up some hard hitting spikes by Laura Connolly as Ireland took a nail biting third 25-23.