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23 February 2008 Croke Park, Dublin: 34–13 Ireland: 2008 Six Nations Championship: 74,234 [131] 122 14 March 2009 Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh: 15–22 Ireland: 2009 Six Nations Championship: 55,000 [132] 123 20 March 2010 Croke Park, Dublin: 20–23 Scotland: 2010 Six Nations Championship: 80,313 [133] 124 27 February 2011 Murrayfield ...
In February 2002, the Scottish FA and the FA of Ireland officially confirmed a joint bid for Scotland and the Republic of Ireland to host the 2008 UEFA European Championships. [1] Had the bid been successful, it would have been the first major competition hosted by both nations and the first held on the British Isles since UEFA Euro 1996 ...
1975–76 Australia rugby union tour of Britain, Ireland and the United States; 1976 Japan rugby union tour of Europe; 1978 New Zealand rugby union tour of Britain and Ireland; 1979 New Zealand rugby union tour of England, Scotland and Italy; 1981 Romania rugby union tour of Scotland; 1981–82 Australia rugby union tour of Britain and Ireland
A Grand Slam tour is one in which a touring national team from Australia, New Zealand, or South Africa plays Test matches against all four home nations (England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales). If the tourists win all four of these games, they are said to have achieved a Grand Slam.
The 2008 mid-year rugby union tests (also known as the Summer Internationals in the Northern Hemisphere) refers to the international rugby union played from May to July 2008; they were mostly in the Southern Hemisphere. For Australia, New Zealand and South Africa they were preparation for the 2008 Tri-Nations.
The list includes all tours and series involving a rugby union team that represented the whole of New Zealand and was officially sanctioned by the body now known as New Zealand Rugby (NZR). Unofficial teams, such as the 1986 New Zealand Cavaliers , and teams from before the formation of NZR (in 1892) are not included.
The concept dates to the original Home Nations Championship, predecessor of the Six Nations Championship, when the competition only involved England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Like the modern Grand Slam, the Triple Crown was an informal honour to a team that won the Championship with straight victories.
The 1906 match between Scotland and South Africa was South Africa's first official international rugby tour. It was also the tour in which the Springbok nickname was coined. South Africa lost to Scotland, defeated Ireland and Wales and drew with England. They also played a game against a representative French side drawn from two Parisian clubs ...