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Ireland's biggest sporting embarrassment?

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  • 21-12-2014 9:07pm
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    ColeTrain
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    What do you think is Ireland's most embarrassing moment on the sporting stage?

    'Ireland's most successful Olympian' Michelle Smith and her doping gets my vote.


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    DeanAustin
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    John Delaney and the 33rd team debacle.


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    0ph0rce0
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    Sonia o sullivans last outing. think the race was over a good half hour and she was still going.


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    AboutaWeekAgo
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    Euro 2012 is the most recent one that comes to mind.


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    Starscream25
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    Drawing to The power house of international football Liecenstein in 95 I believe.


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    buyer95
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    Cyprus 5 Ireland 2. "Who is the gaffer?"


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    MightyMandarin
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    Losing 5-2 to Cyprus has to be up there

    Edit: Dammit got there just before me


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    Duff
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    DeanAustin wrote: »
    John Delaney and the 33rd team debacle.

    Fixed that there for you.


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    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
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    ColeTrain wrote: »
    What do you think is Ireland's most embarrassing moment on the sporting stage?

    'Ireland's most successful Olympian' Michelle Smith and her doping gets my vote.


    What's embarrassing about that is the public refusla to accept that she was on anything at all.

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



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    dodderangler
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    ColeTrain wrote: »
    What do you think is Ireland's most embarrassing moment on the sporting stage?

    'Ireland's most successful Olympian' Michelle Smith and her doping gets my vote.

    Cian o'connor and his junkie horse Waterford crystal "meths" losing gold medal for the fcuking HORSE being on drugs


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    NoMore MrNiceGuy
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    There was a shot putter who knocked down the cage at an Olympics once.


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    DeanAustin
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    Duff wrote: »
    Fixed that there for you.

    Good point well made. Just thought that particular incident encapsulated everything that should mean the man has no place in football.


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    buyer95
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    DeanAustin wrote: »
    John Delaney and the 33rd team debacle.



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    murpho999
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    That mad priest Neil Horan who ran on to the Marathon course in Athens 2004 and cost the leader a gold medal.

    I was embarrassed that he was Irish.


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    braddun
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    any world cup game


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    padd b1975
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    NoMore MrNiceGuy wrote: »
    There was a shot putter who knocked down the cage at an Olympics once.

    It was the hammer.

    1984.

    Not only did he flatten the cage once, delaying the whole schedule of events, he managed to do it a second time.

    Our hero's name was Declan Hegarty.


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    pajor
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    murpho999 wrote: »
    That mad priest Neil Horan who ran on to the Marathon course in Athens 2004 and cost the leader a gold medal.

    I was embarrassed that he was Irish.

    And the 2003 British GP. Now that was nearly suicide.


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    irishgeo
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    Saipan

    The Irish Management not spotting that the Spanish were down to 10 men for the whole of the 2nd half of extra time.


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    foxy farmer
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    Plan B in Croke Park.


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    DeanAustin
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    sugarman wrote: »
    Do you mind explaining why?

    We got played off the park by the eventual winners, runners up and a very good Croatian side.

    Being there alone was an achievement for a nation of our size.

    There was nothing to be embarrassed about.

    We live in a world where you are either brilliant or hopeless. In that context, Euro 2012 can only be viewed as hopeless.

    Reality and common sense just go out the window. Most people think we should have passed Italy, Spain and Croatia off the park and battered them despite the fact we didn't have the players to really compete against those teams.


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    JaseBelleVie
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    A good few sprung to my mind:

    -Michelle Smith-DeBruin
    -Cian O'Connor and Waterford Crystal
    -Ireland 2-5 Cyprus
    -Dublin v. Galway, All Ireland Football Final 1983 ('The Game Of Shame')
    -Saipan
    -Euro 2012 (the manner of the defeats more than the defeats themselves)
    -'The 33rd Team'
    -Ireland 1-6 Germany (the manner of the defeat more than the defeat itself)


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    Dirty Dingus McGee
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    padd b1975 wrote: »
    It was the hammer.

    1984.

    Not only did he flatten the cage once, delaying the whole schedule of events, he managed to do it a second time.

    Our hero's name was Declan Hegarty.

    Brilliant.

    Is there a video of this anywhere on the internet?


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    Omackeral
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    Anytime Liverpool play Manchester United is embarrassing over here. Lads from Dublin/Cork/Wherever calling each other Scouse scum and Manc b*stards.


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    Iranoutofideas
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    The welcome home after the world cup with Joe Duffy onstage

    Think it was the Phoenix Park.


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    Breffnigolfer
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    sugarman wrote: »
    Do you mind explaining why?

    We got played off the park by the eventual winners, runners up and a very good Croatian side.

    Being there alone was an achievement for a nation of our size.

    There was nothing to be embarrassed about.

    Nonsense.
    We were humiliated on the biggest stage. Our manager and players were an embarrassment.

    "Being there alone" is such a defeatist attitude. No point going there if we cannot compete. Trapp, by sticking with older, established players and refusing to pick players in form, also seemed happy to just be there. Delaney's awarding of a contract to Trapp before the tournament was also a joke.


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    Dirty Dingus McGee
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    JaseHeath wrote: »
    A good few sprung to my mind:

    -Michelle Smith-DeBruin
    -Cian O'Connor and Waterford Crystal
    -Ireland 2-5 Cyprus
    -Dublin v. Mayo, All Ireland Football Final 1983 ('The Game Of Shame')
    -Saipan
    -Euro 2012 (the manner of the defeats more than the defeats themselves)
    -'The 33rd Team'
    -Ireland 1-6 Germany (the manner of the defeat more than the defeat itself)

    I think Mayo have lost enough All Irelands without needing to be given credit for losing one they didn't even play in.


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    Dirty Dingus McGee
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    Omackeral wrote: »
    Anytime Liverpool play Manchester United is embarrassing over here. Lads from Dublin/Cork/Wherever calling each other Scouse scum and Manc b*stards.

    Disagree.They clearly all have very close connections with those cities.


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    Ave Sodalis
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    JaseHeath wrote: »
    Cian O'Connor and Waterford Crystal

    I'm not a fan of Cian O Connor by any length. In his defence though, that was very unreasonable and not entirely his fault. Cian wasn't the only one who was taken out of the running. They were EXTREMELY strict that year. The trace of the drug found in Waterford Crystal was given to the horse months beforehand by a vet as a treatment and would ordinarily not have affected the results. Although the drug was in the system still, it would not have had any effect of the horse. Like I said, the FEI were very very very strict that year and have since apologised and admitted they made a mistake with the strictness of the drug testing.


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    Breffnigolfer
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    JaseHeath wrote: »
    A good few sprung to my mind:

    -......
    -Dublin v. Mayo, All Ireland Football Final 1983 ('The Game Of Shame')
    - .....

    You're some man, remembering something that never happened. Mayo were not in AIF'83!


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    Jawgap
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    JaseHeath wrote: »
    A good few sprung to my mind:

    -Michelle Smith-DeBruin
    -Cian O'Connor and Waterford Crystal
    -Ireland 2-5 Cyprus
    -Dublin v. Mayo, All Ireland Football Final 1983 ('The Game Of Shame')
    -Saipan
    -Euro 2012 (the manner of the defeats more than the defeats themselves)
    -'The 33rd Team'
    -Ireland 1-6 Germany (the manner of the defeat more than the defeat itself)

    Think that was Galway not Mayo - not a great advertisement for the game either way. An early nod to 'puke football' :)


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    _dof_
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    DeanAustin wrote: »
    John Delaney and the 33rd team debacle.

    but a bit of embarrassment in return for 5 million quid from FIFA, not too shabby

    uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/news/world-cup-fifa-bought-irish-silence-5m-pay-080222869--sow.html


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