Annual Kinsale Sevens gets underway

NINETY SIX teams will play over 200 games on five pitches this weekend at the annual Heineken Cup Sevens in Kinsale.

The teams will be involved in playing on five pitches in the scenic grounds of Kinsale rugby club seeking some compensation from a prize fund of €22,000, making the event the premier sevens rugby event in the northern hemisphere.

The organisers and sponsors still haven’t given up hope that the tournament may eventually be included in the World Sevens circuit, although it is in the traditional mould of family orientated and amateur status tournaments.