Sport in Ireland plays an important role in Irish society. The many sports played and followed in Ireland include Gaelic games (including Gaelic football...
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The Irish Sport Horse, or Irish Hunter, is an Irish breed of warmblood sporting horse, used mostly for dressage, eventing and show-jumping. It was bred...
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Sport in Northern Ireland plays an important role in the lives of many Northern Irish people. Most sports are organised on an all-Ireland basis, for example...
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of sport within Ireland. It is located at the National Sports Campus in the townland of Sheephill near Abbotstown House in Dublin. Sport Ireland was...
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the more notable sport programmes, broadcasting sport for almost 50 years. The BBC first began to brand sport coverage as 'BBC Sport' in 1988 for the 1988...
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TNT Sports (United Kingdom) (redirect from BT Sport 1)
TNT Sports (formerly BT Sport) is a group of pay television sports channels in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Now owned by Warner Bros. Discovery and...
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in rugby union. The team represents both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Ireland competes in the annual Six Nations Championship and in...
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Horse Sport Ireland (HSI) is the national governing body for all equestrian sport for Ireland. Established in 2008, it is responsible for the administration...
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Sport and Media (Irish: An tAire Turasóireachta, Cultúir, Ealaíon, Gaeltachta, Spóirt agus Meán) is a senior minister in the Government of Ireland and...
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Ireland (/ˈaɪərlənd/ IRE-lənd; Irish: Éire [ˈeːɾʲə] ; Ulster-Scots: Airlann [ˈɑːrlən]) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in north-western Europe...
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Ireland (Irish: Éire [ˈeːɾʲə] ), also known as the Republic of Ireland (Poblacht na hÉireann), is a country in north-western Europe consisting of 26 of...
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2005.00165.x. Fulton, Gareth; Bairner, Alan (2007). "Sport, Space and National Identity in Ireland: The GAA, Croke Park and Rule 42". Space & Policy. 11...
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Sport Northern Ireland (Irish: Spórt Thuaisceart Éireann), officially known as the Sports Council for Northern Ireland, is the regional government sports...
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Road bowling (Irish: Ból an bhóthair; also called [long] bullets) is an Irish sport in which competitors attempt to take the fewest throws to propel a...
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Hurling (redirect from Hurling (sport))
Bennett's performance in the 2020 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final that hurling was "the best sport ever and if the Irish had colonised the world...
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Republic of Ireland national football team (Irish: Foireann peile náisiúnta Phoblacht na hÉireann) represents the Republic of Ireland in men's international...
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and target sport of European origin, from which the modern sport of nine-pin bowling is descended. In regions of the United Kingdom and Ireland the game...
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Ireland includes the art, music, dance, folklore, traditional clothing, language, literature, cuisine and sport associated with Ireland and the Irish...
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James McClean (redirect from James McLean (Irish footballer))
"McClean tweet highlights simmering Irish tension". The Independent. London. "Sorry McClean kept in Ireland squad". Yahoo Sport. 8 September 2012. Archived from...
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represents Northern Ireland at international level in sport. Since the Northern Ireland government and parliament were abolished in 1972, the use of the...
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National Sports Campus (redirect from Irish Sport HQ)
Campus (Irish: An Campas Náisiúnta Spórt)- (sometimes known as Sports Campus Ireland, Sport Ireland Campus or Irish Sport HQ) is a large site in the western...
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Scotland, Wales and Ireland, before spreading to other parts of the Empire. For this reason, in many sporting contexts outside Olympic sport (which was first...
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Sport in Europe tends to be highly organized with many sports having professional leagues. The origins of many of the world's most popular sports today...
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Student Sport Ireland (SSI), formerly the Colleges and Universities Sports Association of Ireland (CUSAI), is the governing body for sport in third-level...
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Gaelic handball (redirect from Irish handball)
handball (known in Ireland simply as handball; Irish: liathróid láimhe) is a sport where players hit a ball with a hand or fist against a wall in such a way...
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of participation in the Republic of Ireland (with five-a-side games being included). It is the second most popular sport in Ireland and it is also the...
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of the Environment. Sport is a devolved matter in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland resting with the corresponding ministers in the Scottish Government...
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UEFA Euro 2028 (redirect from Ireland–United Kingdom 2028)
national teams amid Ukraine invasion". BBC Sport. Brussels. 2 May 2022. Retrieved 2 May 2022. "UK and Ireland set to host Euro 2028 after Turkey withdraw...
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Republic of Ireland women's national football team (Irish: Foireann sacair ban Phoblacht na hÉireann) represents the Republic of Ireland in competitions...
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Irish Sport Horses (also called Irish Draught Sport Horses) which excel at the highest levels of eventing and show jumping. References to the Irish Draught...
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