Ireland's Greatest Sporting Moment 1962-2012

Sure any lad with a few quid can get some poor Nepalese bastard to more or less drag you up Everest at this stage.

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I think 50 per cent chance of dying though

It’s less than one in ten but ya still not great odds

Dick Clerkin isn’t watching this anymore guys and he thought we all needed to know that.

you are mad,she flopped on the big occasion every time mate.

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what the niminations for 2000-2010

for me it was The playing of GSTQ in Croke Park in 2007 for the rugby, the day we matured as a nation

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The Cork hurlers strike

No she didn’t, mate

She never got a gold in the Olympics
anway bro, she is a good exerciser rather than a proper sportsperson

The World Athletics Championships are a big occasion. Point out where the flop was in winning gold in 1995?

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The Jason McAteer goal in the qualifier against the Netherlands will surely win it.

The thing is that every cunt who can has run around a field or jumped over a gate, the ones who make the Olympics are the ultimate athletes, the ones who win world championship gold medals deserve to be revered in a country that hasn’t achieved much in international sport.

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Id prefer not to point to Sonia’s flap

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:rofl::rofl:

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Or they might just be the ones who were bothered enough about it to join an athletics club

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Possibly a lot of truth in that, I’d imagine you can recall a time when middle distance running (mile in particular) was one of the pinnacles of sport, I’m not an athletics fan outside of the Olympics but I’d have a lot of respect for the Irish elite performers.

Jesus Ruby Walsh put the soccer lads back in their box on this the other night. Fellas rubbing themselves raw over the Giants stadium. An enjoyable monent, yes indeed. A grest moment in Irish sport, no sir

Based on its merits, Eire’s victory over Italy at the 1994 World Cup is undoubtedly the greatest victory an Irish international sporting team has ever had.

Italy had the best team in the world in terms of quality, including seven starters from the AC Milan team that had just thumped Barcelona 4-0 in the European Cup final, including the magnificent back four, as well as the standout player from the tournament in Roberto Baggio, who was probably the best player in the world at that time. Italy would go on to lose the final only on penalties. Their team was filled with at least as much quality as any team Eire has ever faced in their history in a competitive match, with only Spain in 2012 also being on that sort of level.

And Eire played them off the pitch on the greatest stage in world sport.

The six months of build up and the epic setting in Giants Stadium added to it all and the celebrations all over the country were as wild as anything ever seen.

Basically, only a fucking idiot would think that it was anything other than a great moment.

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Was a great moment to be alive.