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A thank you to the fans, the best support in the world. Devastating.

@King_Haughton @IrelandSLO No chance 😂

@declantmurphy @IrelandSLO Tap a way, Aidan is getting the pints in for the boys in green 🇮🇪🇮🇪

@IrelandSLO Hi, I’m at Prague Airport and found a AIB Bank card belonging to Aidan Hickey I’ve just come off the Heathrow flight and a Dublin and a Cork flight have all landed around the same time

@ExaminerSport @museumofjerseys I’ve a collection of old Ireland shirts but since having the worst kit manufacturer of the lot Castore I’ve not bought any Ireland products because they look cheap and rubbish quality + sponsor, the same Sky that questioned our ladies players about history. No thanks

In Ireland, we like a new kit more often than not (and everyone else...) irishexaminer.com/sport/soccer/a…

Reminder of the one soundtrack we were missing 🥊 🇮🇪 ⚽️

£500m spent in the summer. 10 defeats in 31 games. Hey @Carra23 and @GNev2, when are you scheduling an interview with Arne Slot? questioning about his tactics ? Or does it only apply to Manchester United managers ?

It must be love 💚

giveaway 🍀😎i have 2 mini bests prints left i'll give one away -simply RT pick a winner tomorrow 🍀

@CalSheedy @MalachyClerkin Same

@MalachyClerkin In the away end!!

Where were you for Troy Parrott's goal? Featuring (among others)... ✈️The woman who took the airport video 👶A midwife in the Rotunda, mid-delivery ⛹️‍♂️A soccer-mad cancer patient (11) ⚽☘️Everyone in Ireland at 4pm on November 16th 2025 irishtimes.com/sport/soccer/2…

These Adidas shirts for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are absolutely stunning. Just imagine what we'd have got had we've been with Adidas.

Today I$rael tried to kill me in a targeted airstrike in southern Lebanon as I was reporting on was the targeting of bridges and the forced displacement of 1 million people, an ethnic cleansing operation on a larger scale than the Nakba I have absolutely no doubt that this was deliberate. Despite claims there were no warnings ahead of the strike and no notifications sent to the Lebanese Army who allowed us to film As we have seen in Gaza they want to silence journalists who document and report their war crimes It is the western powers who provide political and military support for I$rael, arming it to the teeth to carry out genocide in Gaza and ethnic cleansing here in Lebanon. They are not simply complicit, but active participants and should be held accountable for their actions. But if I$rael thinks today’s strike will silence us and keep us out of the field they are very, very mistaken

Danny Kelly reveals cancer diagnosis and urges others to get checked

@shebahn Fair play

One for the road 🍀 Happy st Patrick’s day x 🇮🇪

“Erin Go Bragh” ✊🏽🇮🇪 (Oasis Live '25, Croke Park, Dublin) youtu.be/_C-H3mriPjg?si…

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@carefreejake_ Was unbelievable when it went in! Made up for all the crap trips/results over the years… some good videos on YouTube

Even as a staunch Englishman, I find it a bit gutting that the Ireland fans weren’t behind the goal. Given the circumstance, it would’ve been one of the best ‘limbs’ videos of all time

@MattCas04807118 Met him at Luton Airport before flying out to Poland for Euro 2012 him and his brother were going to Gdansk to watch Italy v Spain and us to Poznan to watch Ireland v Croatia and he was a top man 👏🏻 he was flat out on the red wine 🍷 to early doors 😂

A throwback to when the unbeatable Bernard Hopkins told Joe Calzaghe that he could never lose to a white boy… Legendary fight.

Today in 1995 Ireland played a friendly match against England it Lansdowne Road. Some level of mindless violence was predicted. The FAI struck a deal with the FA to reduce English fan tickets to 4,000 out of 40,000. Gardaí drilled for a few minor scenarios, however, their main presence was outside the stadium. Before the game, in a prelude to violence, nearby pubs were vandalised with Loyalist paramilitary and British National Party graffiti. It seemed the dangerous element landed in Dun Laoghaire on the ferry that day. President Mary Robinson was loudly booed from the English stands as she met the players. Kickoff was 6:15pm. The toxic, intimidating atmosphere grew by the second. There was the usual reprehensible behaviour of spitting and throwing missiles, which gradually ramped up. The tone of the verbal intimidation spoke volumes about the xenophobia and sectarianism endemic in the English hooligan's psyche. Chants of "F#ck the Pope" and "No surrender to the IRA" may seem childish taunts, but they were joined by provocative hate speech such as "Clegg is innocent", referring to British soldier Lee Clegg who murdered two Belfast teenagers, then was controversially cleared years later. 22 minutes in and David Kelly scored, 1 - Nil for Ireland. This was soon followed by a disallowed offside goal by England's David Platt, and then the thuggery stepped up a notch. Approximately 26 minutes in, and from the old West Stand, rubbish and torn up seating were infamously hurled down by the English hooligans on to the Irish fans in the lower stands. In an idiotic oversight, some Irish fans had been ticketed areas in the English zones, after the FA returned tickets to the FAI. This left them isolated and vulnerable, surrounded by their attackers. In fairness to the dismayed referee, he stopped the match at this point and pulled both teams off the pitch, littered with torn and thrown seats. No doubt the English team and their genuine fans were as disgusted by the behaviour of the "casual" gurriers as everyone else. As Jack Charlton left the pitch, vile verbal abuse from his fellow English countryman was hurled at him. "Judas" is the least obscene word. The Irish fans in the lower stands were essentially sitting ducks at the mercy of the English rioter's missiles. They eventually were forced to spill out on to the pitch to avoid worse injury. 12 more minutes and the match was called off. The PA system, and the presumably terrified match stewards, began to evacuate the crowd as the missiles and threats rained down. Mercifully the majority of the shocked fans and their families made their way safely and peacefully out of Lansdowne. But the not insignificant force of 4,500 English "fans" needed to be detained by Gardaí. The reason for this was twofold. Firstly for their own safety, to keep them segregated from the home supporters who they had cowardly assaulted (and who dramatically outnumbered them). Secondly to search and arrest the guilty parties, some of who British forces had identified as organised criminal and paramilitary elements. Predictably, this detention caused the violence and thuggery to escalate. The Garda response was hampered by access to the seating areas occupied by the rioters. One particularly nasty group of bigots essentially orchestrated the chaos, lead by an English fascist called Charlie Sargent, who notorious founded Combat 18 in 1992. For those blissfully unaware of these neo-nazi thugs, all you need to know is the "18" in their name is alphabet code for AH, Adolf Hitler. They were the muscle for the unabashedly racist right-wing British National Party (BNP). It will be surprising to no one that these English thugs had a close relationship with the loyalist paramilitary group, the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) and many were members of the National Front-> concludes in comments