Cycling isnt a minority sport on the continent.
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The excitement is building in clubs around the country you’ll be delighted to know
McGuigan beating Pedroza was huge at the time.
Euro 88 and Italia 90 were great.
Euro 88 probably more enjoyable.
Don’t forget Ronnie Whelan smashed off the crossbar against England, so we should have won 2-0 (conveniently forgetting all the missed English chances).
The chairman of the boards winning World Championship in 83 often gets overlooked.
Still reckon this was the goal of the tournament despite Van Basten getting the nod
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Ah Mike, come off it now, it was a shinner, VanBastens goal was extraordinary, no comparison
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It looked great live though
It did indeed, and Ronnie was world class so I wouldn’t have put it past him, but it was a shinner, MVB’s was out of this world
I think euro 88 on general will get the nod. Right from the moment Gary Mackay scored up to Ray Houghton singing “who put the ball in the English net” , it was just one long party.Given the fact that it was the first tournament that the Republic qualified for probably gives it the edge over 1990
90 was a much bigger party
I don’t disagree. I think in 90 they were half expected to qualify. 88 was out of the blue
83 to 90 were great days for Irish sport. The country was on its knees and in two channel land for many those moments were watched by all and meant an awful lot.
Ireland beating England in Euro 88 though put the country into ecstasy more than any other moment I lived through. It was unreal. People lost their minds.
Coughlan And Treacy in 83 and 84 were also special. Roche winning the tour and the spontaneous cheer and ovation in Croke Park was spine tingling.
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88 has to be it. As great as italia 90 was, the group matches were shit. The Egypt match was a horror show. The matches in 88 were much better.
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Roche was juiced to the gills. He’ll get a brief mention but that’s it.
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Not at all, he’ll be in the final shake up I’d say.
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Johnny Logan winning a second Eurovision arguably topped the lot.
Robbie Keanes late goal v Germany in the 2002 world cup.
Ronnie Whelan hit the crossbar with a volley against England in Stuttgart.
England had four or five decent enough chances in the second half and put on a lot of pressure but I don’t remember any of those chances being genuinely gilt-edged ones and they didn’t come as close to scoring as Whelan did.
Lineker actually shitting himself in Italia 90 could also feature.
Ronnie admitted he hit that with the shin but a great goal . Hard argue with the MVB winner though .
its fascinating to see the one eyed oirish obsession with England is still so prevalent, it really says it all about the oriish that their top sporting moments is England losing a soccer game against another country 
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