Rugby
The year rugby became professional.
What is 1995?
'Hail Cricket! Glorious, manly _________ game!'
Hail Cricket! Glorious, manly British game!
Winner of three gold medals in swimming at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta.
Who is Michelle Smith?
Former captain of Manchester United and the Republic of Ireland.
Who is Roy Keane?
Number of players on each team during a game of hurling.
What is 15?
The team Ireland play against in the first ever rugby game played in the GAA’s headquarters of Croke Park.
What is France?
Person who uttered this quote in 2007: “there’s normally a battle for the TV remote control between football and horse or dog racing. That night all four sets were on the cricket. The entire pub was in silence, a unique experience in an area where there would be very little cricket played”
Who is Bertie Ahern?
Number of gold medals Ireland had won in the Olympics from 1896-1996.
What is 5?
Captain of the Ireland national rugby team from 2019 until 2023, just retired this month.
Who is Johnny Sexton?
Historically the most successful county in Gaelic Football.
What is Kerry?
The Irish province who has won the most European Cups.
What is Leinster?
The Irish-born 'Champion Walker of America'.
Who was Dan O'Leary?
Storyteller and source of folk culture for anthropologists and scholars. A native Irish speaker from the Blasket Islands.
Who was Peig Sayers?
Stadium in which the Irish national football and rugby teams play their home matches.
What is the Aviva Stadium?
All-time leading goal scorer for the Republic of Ireland men's national football team.
Who is Robbie Keane?
Dublin university closely associated with the Ireland Rugby Football Union (IRFU).
Trinity College Dublin.
Laws which condemned the vast majority of the Irish to a life of idleness and poverty.
What were the Penal Laws?
First female President of Ireland.
Who is Mary Robinson?
Irish professional golfer who plays on the European Tour and the PGA Tour, won the 2019 Open Championship and the Irish Open as an amateur in 2009.
Who is Shane Lowry?
Irish professional footballer who plays for English Women's Super League club Arsenal and captains the Republic of Ireland women's national team.
Who is Katie McCabe?
Song used as a national anthem by some sports competitors representing the island of Ireland.
What is Ireland's Call?
American city where Dan O'Leary called home.
What is Chicago?
The undisputed and lineal world lightweight champion and the undisputed and lineal world super lightweight champion in boxing.
Who is Katie Taylor?
Cian O'Connor's horse who tested positive for a banned substance after winning gold at the 2004 Olympics.
Who is Waterford Crystal?
Number of seconds it took Conor McGregor to knock out Jose Aldo in 2015.
What is 13?