Lowest irish sporting moment

redmgar

Last year RTE had a list of Ireland greatest sporting moments.
What would be in your top three lowest Irish sporting moments?
Denmark last year?
Saipan?
Rugby world cup 2007

aj89

Losing 5-2 away to Cyprus in the Euro 08 qualifier

Fighting Tao

Dave Rogers sacking: https://m.independent.ie/regionals/argus/sport/soccer/dundalk-defiant-26934115.html

Not sure if it’s low enough as he didn’t go below the bum cheeks.

Beechwoodspark

Denmark was pretty bad.

There was plenty of awful results in Irish soccer for decades before the charlton years.

Same in rugby. Awful results in the 90s especially.

Another one that comes to mind is the disgrace of the rio olympics

redmgar

Michelle Smith? Our greatest ever Olympian..................

seamus

2012, probably

Despite somewhat not terrible results scraping us into Euro 2012, we then comprehensively got our arses handed to us in the tournament, including one match against Spain that made us look like a schoolboy's league team fielding out against Spain.

Four months later, Germany made us somehow look even poorer with our worst home defeat ever.

Though that's just the soccer. In other spheres it was good; that's the year Katie Taylor shined at the Olympics. It was also the last time a GAA football final didn't have Dublin or Kerry in it. Donegal took home the title for the first time in 20 years.

redmgar

3. Scrapping a last minute win against san marino
2. France 2007
1. Saipan

sydthebeat

Denmark in isolation was a bad day, but it was great campaign to get us to that point, so I don't view it as that much of a low point in soccer.
Cyprus and Macedonia were way lower.

2007 Rwc was a disaster when considering the squad we had and the form we were in going into it.

Ladies rwc last year was an unmitigated disaster.

ligerdub

Thierry Henry/Paris: 2009

But this one made that seem bearable

CWF

Has to be Michelle Smith

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The former priest draped in an Irish flag preventing the Brazilian from winning the marathon at the Athens Olympics.

CWF

We need a poll

lawred2

George Gibney

Pauliedragon

Henry handball for me. I literally felt sick. When people used to say that to me I always thought it was just a figure of speach but I genuinely felt like vomiting.

Damiencm

Im a bit young to remember the year but that olympics where Sonia O'Sullivan was coming last and then drooped out b4 the finish. The interview afterwards was heartbreaking

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Damiencm wrote:

Im a bit young to remember the year but that olympics where Sonia O'Sullivan was coming last and then drooped out b4 the finish. The interview afterwards was heartbreaking

It was heartbreaking wasn't it, but she was ill.

I wouldn't class it as the lowest Irish moment though as it would be unfair to suggest Sonia was responsible for that accolade. She was an ambassador for Ireland on the world athletics stage which are in short supply.

The J Stands for Jay

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The former priest draped in an Irish flag preventing the Brazilian from winning the marathon at the Athens Olympics.

When the Irish priest ran into the track at Silverstone.

Cosmo Kramer

Lowest for me...in no particular order:

Rugby: Ireland v Georgia 2007 RWC. Won but should have lost, to be honest. Honourable mention for the 60-0 drubbing off New Zealand in 2012, it was the week after we got knocked out of Euro 2012 as well. Of course, you could point to any number of beatings we took in the 90s also, but we just didn't have the players then.

Football: The 5-2 game in Cyprus is the standout one for me.The 0-0 in Liechtenstein was a shocker too. And, of course, Saipan. I probably wouldn't include Euro 2012, since we actually did well to qualify for a 16 team tournament as it was then.

Other sports: Mick Smith obviously, Cian O'Connor in Athens as well. Cathal Lombard for the sheer stupidity of what he did. Our PED record is sadly not the best. And of course Neil Horan pushing the Brazilian athlete in the marathon in Athens. That was a particularly bad Olympics even by our usual low enough standards.