IN CASE YOU didn’t realise and have somehow ended up in work wondering where everyone is, today is St. Patrick’s Day and what better way to celebrate than to look back at some of the moments when sportspeople and teams made you feel ridiculously proud to be Irish.
This is obviously not a definitive list — the two lads who blagged their way into the Super Bowl didn’t make it — but we felt 17 was a good number for the day that’s in it.
Let us know what else you’d include in the comments below but, in no particular order…
1. When Ray Houghton put the ball in the back of the England net
2. When Dave O’Leary kept his nerve as the nation held its breath
3. When Ireland beat the Italians in New York
4. When Steph Roche rubbed shoulders with the best in the world
5. When Ronan O’Gara dropped at goal with a Grand Slam at stake
6. When Ireland thrashed ‘the old enemy’ at Croke Park
7. When the women’s rugby team won their first Grand Slam
8. When Ireland hosted the Special Olympics World Games
9. When the cricket team announced themselves on the world stage
10. When Sonia O’Sullivan became champion of the world
11. When Eamon Coughlan told Dmitriy Dmitriyev ’watch me go’
12. When Barry McGuigan won a world title for all the people of Ireland
13. When Katie Taylor took gold at the London Olympic Games
14. When Pádraig Harrington won his first Major title
15. When Rory McIlory ripped up the record books at the US Open
16. When Ken Doherty became World Snooker Champion
17. When we watched the world fall in love with Gaelic Games in 2014
Ashley Yonng never came across as the sharpest tool in the box
@Kieran: how is it dumb to keep trying to compete? He’s not saying they’ll be successful , just that he won’t give up trying. Real losers are the ones that quit. What would you do?
@Andrew Keane: thing is, United don’t try and compete. Especially not against good teams. They try not to lose.
@James Doyle: They competed against Chelsea!
@The Bunk: I said good teams….
But in fairness, they were at home against a team that has lost 3 out of the last 4, were beaten by 3 by both Watford and Bournemouth, and even then only “went for the win” with 30 minutes left, and Chelsea still had a goal incorrectly disallowed to equalize. It wasn’t all that great, really.
@Kieran: Tool? Yes. Sharp? No.
Ha.
Easy on the glue there Young ya gimp!
@glenn kilfeather: what do you expect him or anyone else put in that position to say ! Now who’s the ‘GIMP!’
@thatsnotme: Ashley Young
@thatsnotme: Ashley Young?
Playing to win? Is that what he calls turning out Jose’s patented 6-4-0 formation anytime United play a team in the top 6? Playing not to lose may get United tremendous results like a 0-0 at Anfield, or a 2-1 over an out of sorts Chelsea, but it does not a “title challenge” make. United have lost 16 points on Man City in 21 games. They were level after 7. That’s the opposite of “going to win every game”.
Deluded as the rest of them!
@Eoin McCarthy: why is he deluded?
@Andrew Keane: By thinking that United, or any team for that matter, might catch City at this stage.
New story on Young tomorrow, “Ashley Young fails drug test”
Dived in there Ashley
Well you hardly expect them to concede matches do you. Everyone else is playing for top 4 places since before Xmas.
Ah brilliant. You have to love Marlo Stanfields optimism. Hahahhah.
@England’s Envy: Careful now, or Young will get Chris and Snoop to put you up in those vacants.
@Alan J. McKenna: Haahaha McNulty will get their asS
You’re talking shiit Ashley….probably just returning what that bird dumped in your mouth that time though ha!
Clown
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