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Ireland’s under 20s have beaten New Zealand 33-24 this afternoon in Manchester at the World Rugby U20s Championship.

They join the senior women’s team in having the honour of beating the All Blacks at test level.

Laces out Johnny.

Update:

Meanwhile, in South Africa.


Final score: South Africa 20 Ireland 26

Pic: Irish Rugby

World Rugby U20 Championship

For the day that’s in it.

It was for this.

Shoot! magazine’s match report from the Republic of Ireland’s jammy comprehensive one goal victory over England at the 1988 European Championship.

Meanwhile..

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The unfortunately absent and badly injured Liam Brady with his feet up in Germany.

Via Brand New Retro

The Brand New Retro Buke (Liberties Press) 

Meanwhile…

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Arf.



Ollie ‘The Fla’ O’Flaherty (top)

The first installment of Fáilte Ireland’s venture into the world of V.R. and 3D footage of the Wild Atlantic Way.

A virtually gnarly 360′ of Ollie ‘The Fla‘ O’Flaherty riding the surf beneath the Cliffs of Moher, County Clare.

Next week: sheep scaring on the Burren.

360 Tow-in Surfing

Wild Atlantic Way 

Thanks Oval Head

1988

For the month that’s in it.

The European Championships, Wednesday, June 15, 1988.

The Niedersachsenstation, Hanover, West Germany.

Jackie’s Army travelled north to face Dynamo Kiev the Soviet Union achieving a stunning, unexpected and comprehensive 1-1 draw.

Kevin Myers, in the Irish Times, ruminated:

If there had been a little more justice in the world and a little less discreet burning of votive candles in the Kremlin, Ireland would have bagged three goals and we would be booking our hotels in Munich.

This Irish side showed itself to be one of great class, sophistication and courage. The days of eye-rubbing disbelief, suggestion that we had all been smoking illicit vegetables and were having the most preposterous hallucination should now be dispelled forever.

Vegetables?

You’re doing it wrong.

UEFA Euro 2016

Pic via Joe.ie

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For the month that will be in it.

Sunday, June 12, 1988.

The year the lotto went loive, Paddy Power was born and the ‘.ie’ domain was registerd.

In Stuttgart, the Irish football team, ranked 8th among the eight teams at the championship faced Bobby Robson’s star-stuffed, mullet-heavy English side.

Joxer dreamt.

Willie Clingan writing in the following day’s Irish Times said:

Somebody said that Dublin yesterday evening reminded them of Rome the day Italy won the World Cup in 1982 – a hot summer’s day with a crowded city centre in high spirits, spilling onto the streets to celebrate a great football victory. The blaring car horns added the continental flourish to Dublin’s celebrations

Mmf.

Meanwhile..

Euro 2016 Republic of Ireland Squad (RTÉ Sport)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=57&v=XN_nzRR5X_w

Footage from last years’s Gold Coast 600 V8 supercar race in Surfer’s paradise, Queensland, Australia.

In what could easily be a cut scene from a first person racing game, Paul “The Dude” Morris’s onboard camera films Matt Brabham hurtling around the course behind him.

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Janma Angibaud writes:

So my mate Dave’s recorded his own Euro 2016 anthem “Ireland Abú”. G’wan the Dave Boys in Green!

Ireland Abú

Previously: For Euro Consideration: Summer Of ’16

Euro 2016  songs to Broadsheet@broadsheet.ie marked ‘For Euro Consideration’.

Lace them up.

Ahead of this weekend’s F.A.I Junior Cup final at Lansdowne Road Nua between Dublin’s Sheriff YC and Limerick’s Pike Rovers.

Irish illustrator Kieran Carroll writes:

The images of each is a play on the team names of both finalists. The Sheriff Y.C. idea was an obvious one as I chose a Sheriff to represent the Dublin club. For Pike Rovers I chose a soldier armed with a pike, better known as a pikeman.

The intent here was to depict these old fashioned characters in a modern day battle between the Sheriffs of Dublin and the incoming Pikemen from Limerick…

Fight!



F.A.I Junior Cup