Two-time Olympian and former Ireland 7s captain Harry McNulty will attend the Safari 7s 2025 tournament that will take place from 10-12 October at the Nyayo National Stadium in Nairobi, Kenya.
McNulty was one of the key players for the Ireland 7s and bowed out as the most-capped Ireland Men’s Sevens player of all-time with 181 SVNS Series appearances and 31 tries, helping the team to achieve core status for the first time in 2019.
The 33-year-old was one of the ‘Originals’ who played in the Bosnian city of Zenica back in 2015, the starting point for the relaunch of the Ireland Men’s Sevens programme as they won the Rugby Europe Men’s Sevens Division C title to begin their hunt for core status that came four years later.
Speaking to SportPesa Blog, McNulty expressed his excitement in what will be his first experience of the prestigious Kenyan rugby event.
“I will be around both on Saturday and Sunday. My first time there,” McNulty confirmed.
This follows an earlier interaction with the player at the 2024 Cape Town 7s where he had expressed a desire to attend a Safari 7s event.
“I need to come for the Safari 7s and we can do some content there,” he told SportPesa.
Having retired from the game, McNulty has fully transitioned into the media world and worked for World Rugby in the 2025 season, highlighting the popular destinations where the HSBC SVNS Series tournaments take place.
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About Harry McNulty’s playing career?
McNulty retired having played in two World Cup Sevens tournaments, including an outstanding third-place finish in Cape Town in 2022, and finished out his career at the Paris 2024 Olympics, captaining the side to their highest finish so far of sixth.
On the World Sevens circuit, the biggest high came with Ireland’s League runners-up finish just behind Argentina in 2023, amid an ultra-consistent run which saw McNulty and his teammates feature regularly at the business end of tournaments.
Along with that, there was the breakthrough bronze medal success in London in 2018 as an invitational team, and silvers in Toulouse and Dubai (both 2022), and Singapore (2024), and bronzes in Perth and Hong Kong in 2024.
Safari 7s 2025 tournament
The 27th edition of the Safari Sevens is set to electrify the Nyayo National Stadium from 10-12 October with 20 teams confirmed for the prestigious tournament (12 men and 8 women).
This year’s event is particularly notable as it marks a return to the historic Nyayo National Stadium for the first time since 2021 and the tournament’s return to Nairobi.
The men’s 7s national team, Shujaa, will enter the tournament as the defending champions, having claimed the crown at last year’s event which took place in Machakos while Costa Blanca Barabarians will return from Spain to defend the women’s title.
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Confirmed teams for Safari 7s 2025
Men’s category
Zimbabwe
Zambia
Shogun
French Renegades
Kenya Shujaa
Kenya Morans
UK Select
Apache Rugby
Reunion
Uganda Men
KCB RFC
Walukuba Barbarians (Uganda)
Women’s category
Belgium
Kenya Lionesses
Shogun
Tunisia
Uganda
Kenya Cubs
Zimbabwe
Costa Blanca Barbarians