Top three sporting events you have attended (cc: of Ewan MacKenna)

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Didnā€™t Barcelona win the second leg four nil? Zlatan scored a couple I think.

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Limerick v cork in the under 21 in 2011 is by a distance the best game I was at. An incredible game.

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It was the year after Iā€™d say. Villa scored Barcaā€™s goal

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  1. 1981 FA Cup Final Replay, Tottenham Hotspur 3 Manchester City 2

  2. New Zealand 21 British Lions 24, 2nd Test of the 2017 Tour, Cake Tin Wellington.

  3. Australia v England, 1998/99 Ashes Series -Day 4of the 4th/ Boxing Day test at MCG - Dean Headley 6/60 as Australia are skittled out for 112 and England win by 12 runs. Then 3 days later at the Sydney Cricket Ground, Darren Gough claiming the first hat-trick in a test match at the SCG in 107 years.

Worst - April 2004 - White Hart Lane - Spurs 2 Woolwich 2

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Munster vs Gloucester the miracle match 2003,

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Was the lions nz game the one when sbw got a red card ?

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Yes

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Sure the game was over after 20 min when he got the red . Hardly a classic .

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British Lions tour, particularly to New Zealand is the pinnacle in rugby.

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  1. Clare v Offaly 1995.
  2. Armagh v Kerry 2002
    3 Sea the stars winning the arc in 2009
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North Tipp Senior Hurling final , 1996
AI senior hurling final, 2010
And maybe Ireland 1-3 Croatia, 2012, just to finally see Ireland in an international tournament. Even though the game was shite

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I was at the match where Brian Oā€™Driscoll was speared by Tana Umaga, an awful night weather wise, I canā€™t stand rugger but I was in NZ at the time and followed the tour a bit, Dunedin against Otago was the highlight, the Kiwis are generally quite dull, bars are/were empty most nights but when the Lions were in town they were brilliant

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You were at all 3? :grinning::grinning::grinning::grinning::grinning:

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Dunedin is a big university town. Itā€™s probably the liveliest of the big cities. Youā€™re right though. Itā€™s a fairly dead and lifeless place socially. South Island in winter is beyond bleak.

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Didnā€™t they play the national anthem when he came back into the parade ring and kinane had the tricolour draped around him? An Incredible day Iā€™d imagine.

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  1. Watching the bish win the Connacht senior cup when Iā€™d just started in the school as a first year. Was mesmerized by how good they were. Gerry mullen, one of the best all round sportsmen Galway ever produced, absolutely lorded it at outhalf. I was talking to him in the pub there a while back. He barely even remembered it. Fond of the sup.
    2 rangers 0 Celtic 3 2002
    3 aimhf 2009. Glennon lorded it.
    Iā€™m going to have to edit this. I forgot letrim 0-9 Galway 0-10 iirc in Leitrim in the Connacht senior championship in about 1996 Iā€™d say. Think it was the year we lost the semi final, which was also absolutely brilliant. Only reckoned to be about 90 Galway supporters in a sell out crowd. Eight of us went in two cars, including , bizarrely ,Harry McGee. It was one of the best days I ever had in my whole life. Any number of away games watching the football when we were not very good were brilliant, but this was to my mind the start of the great team.
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Irish sport

Football final 98
Hurling semi kk v Galway 05
Football final 2000

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Legend has it Giovanni Trapattoni threw away Irelandā€™s chances in Euro 2012 when he was unduly influenced by his choice of pre-match music - USA For Africaā€™s ā€œWe are the Worldā€.

We are the world
We are the children
We are the ones to make a brighter day
So letā€™s start Given

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@Watchyourtoes and myself were in lille when ireland beat Italy 1-0 . A great night for irish football.

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2017 AIHF is an obvious one so Iā€™ll leave it out.

2012 Leinster final. Eviscerated Kilkenny. Although Shane Moloneyā€™s winner in '15 is a close second for sheer elation. I nearly fell off the top tier of the Cusack celebrating it.

1998 Connacht Quarter final vs Mayo. That feeling that we had a team coming again and putting that Mayo them out of their misery.

1991 FAI - Cup final. Probably my fondest memory. My parents and Aunt brought me up to Lansdowne Road to see Johnny Glynnā€™s winner. I had been at 99.9% of Galway United home games since 1986. A really special day.

Non Galway related.
2009 AIHF - Savage intensity and Kilkenny somehow managed to hang on. How Chipp lost that I will never know.

1996 AIFF (Replay) - My first All Ireland final so always a great memory. Our minor hurlers were playing Tipp in the game beforehand for some reason. Eugene Cloonan was on that Galway team. Witnessed the famous brawl and Mayo somehow losing another AI final they should have won.

2011 - Champions League QF - Man Utd v Chelsea. Brilliant atmosphere, I was hoarse after 20 minutes. Two quality sides and a United win.