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Gaelic football is one of the most popular sports in Ireland.. Sport in Ireland plays an important role in Irish society. The many sports played and followed in Ireland include Gaelic games (including Gaelic football, hurling, camogie and handball), association football, horse racing, show jumping, greyhound racing, basketball, fishing, motorsport, boxing, tennis, hockey, golf, rowing, cricket ...
Great City Games Newcastle, United Kingdom [3] 200 m: 20.30 (+0.1 m/s) Paul Hession: 21 July 2007 National Senior T&F Championships Dublin, Ireland 200 m (straight) 20.66 (−0.4 m/s) Paul Hession: 16 May 2010 Great CityGames Manchester: Manchester, United Kingdom [4] 300 m: 32.47 Paul Hession: 12 June 2008 Golden Spike Ostrava: Ostrava, Czech ...
Michael Cusack was born in 1847, during the great Irish famine to fluent Irish-speaking parents, [2] Matthew and Bridget Cusack. [3] The third oldest of five children, he had one sister, Mary and three brothers, John, Patrick and Thomas. Cusack was raised in Carron, in the east of the burren region, Co Clare and attended Carron National School ...
Appearances made in youth football are not deemed to be official. War-time results are also excluded if they were later regarded as unofficial by the relevant Football Association(s); if they were included, Billy Meredith would be the first ever player to have played in 1,000 official matches, [1] and Stanley Matthews would also make the list. [2]
Note the list only includes men who have played in a Test match (which includes those who played against the 1888–89 New Zealand Native football team) Those who represented the British and Irish Lions but were never capped for Ireland are not included - for example William Joseph Ashby was part of the first Lions team to tour South Africa in ...
The Ireland national rugby union team represents the island of Ireland in international rugby union and plays in the Six Nations Championship and Rugby World Cup. Thomas Gisborne Gordon , who played for Ireland between 1877–78, is the only one handed player to have competed in international rugby of either code.
Gaelic games (Irish: Cluichí Gaelacha) are a set of sports played worldwide, though they are particularly popular in Ireland, where they originated. They include Gaelic football, hurling, Gaelic handball and rounders. Football and hurling, the most popular of the sports, are both organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA).
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