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Ireland's biggest sporting embarrassment?

ColeTrain

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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anncoates

ColeTrain wrote: »

Ireland's biggest sporting embarrassment?

Bohemians

John Delaney in general - by a country mile.

rmchmufc

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

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

Pure head in the sand stuff alright

ClovenHoof

Iranoutofideas wrote: »

The welcome home after the world cup with Joe Duffy onstage

Think it was the Phoenix Park.

Oh yeah. That was everything wrong with Ireland and the Irish in one event.

anncoates

sugarman wrote: »

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

Nonsense.

sugarman wrote: »

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

.....from Croatia which has the same population as us.

Grandeeod

1936.

Irish Free State V Germany in Dalymount park, Dublin.

The German lads do the oul Nazi salute during the anthems and then some of the Irish lads do it aswell for some unknown reason.

With hindsight, its up there with the embarrassment lark.

We won the match!

DeanAustin

_dof_ wrote: »

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

You think he made the 33rd team request solely as a tactic to get paid off?

padd b1975

[qtime te="Dirty Dingus McGee;93533281"]Brilliant.

Is there a video of this anywhere on the internet?[/quote]

I'm not sure...

I remember watching it as a child with my dad on a Sunday evening and watching him slowly shake his head in embarrasment when the cage went down for a second ti (my dad that is, Declan barely batted an eye!)

I'm nearly sure we haven't competed in the event since....

padd b1975

Dirty Dingus McGee wrote: »

Brilliant.

Is there a video of this anywhere on the internet?

I'm not sure...

I remember watching it as a child with my dad on a Sunday evening and watching him slowly shake his head in embarrasment when the cage went down for a second time (my dad that is, Declan barely batted an eye!)

I'm nearly sure we haven't competed in the event since....

SEPT 23 1989

Grandeeod wrote: »

1936.

Irish Free State V Germany in Dalymount park, Dublin.

The German lads do the oul Nazi salute during the anthems and then some of the Irish lads do it aswell for some unknown reason.

With hindsight, its up there with the embarrassment lark.

We won the match!

The enemy of my enemy is my friend

Nib

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.

Doesn't seem to be a video of it anywhere.

Here's an article from the Indo: http://www.independent.ie/sport/other-sports/a-love-affair-with-a-ball-and-chain-26878672.html

iDave

Louth fans

anncoates

Grandeeod wrote: »

1936.

Irish Free State V Germany in Dalymount park, Dublin.

The German lads do the oul Nazi salute during the anthems and then some of the Irish lads do it aswell for some unknown reason.
!

Because we now - in historical hindsight - associate that with Nazism and the holocaust but that was years before the denouement of Nazism and even 3 years before the outbreak of WWII even if anti-Semitic programs were in full swing in Germany. At that time in history though, the Irish state were presumably just going with the wishes of the guest team.

iDave

RTE pundits. Hook Dunphy Giles Spillane Brolly.

Venus In Furs

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

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

Totally.

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

The enemy of my enemy is my friend

What do you mean?

6541

Leave Mayo alone. Mayo for SAM 2015!!!

_dof_

DeanAustin wrote: »

You think he made the 33rd team request solely as a tactic to get paid off?

Not a chance, and it was cringeworthy at the time, but at least we got something out of it.. which is probably not the case for all the other embarrassments that will appear in this thread

downonthefarm

Michelle Smith roiding her way to victory

Bertser

We won, but the manner of the 2-1 victory in San Marino in 2007 was extremely bad. Another Staunton masterclass.

iDave

RWC 07 was some mess

CrabRevolution

While it was definitely embarrassing, I'd love to know what people actually expected from EURO 2012. We were in a group with the 2 previous World Champions who then went on to prove themselves as the best in the competition by reaching the final. Then there was Croatia, who would beat us more often than we'd beat them anyway. In comparison, we hadn't even qualified for the previous 5 tournaments.

I'm not saying we should have just been happy to be there, but losing all 3 games was a fairly probable outcome from the very start.

JaseBelleVie

Dirty Dingus McGee wrote: »

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

Breffnigolfer wrote: »

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

oops... Galway.

Meant to say Galway.

But sure it's an easy mistake to make; Mayo lose every final, don't they?!

DeanAustin

Bertser wrote: »

We won, but the manner of the 2-1 victory in San Marino in 2007 was extremely bad. Another Staunton masterclass.

Stan's interview afterwards was comical too. Didn't he say they'd cause other teams problems in the group (and didnt Germany slaughter them 13-0) as well as some bizarre claim about us traditionally not being great in February or some such nonsense.

Felt sorry for Stan but his appointment was one of the few I've ever seen that was completely bereft of common sense and logic. Another bit of Delaney genius.

jas376

Cork hurlers going on strike.

R1_Pete

The lack of coverage and support given to Eugene Laverty is both an embarrassment and missed opportunity imho.. A man competing truly on the world stage week after week.

Next season he will be flying the tricolour in the Moto GP no less and it will probably get less column inches than this year..

Too Tough To Die

'Best fans in the world'

Yamanoto

Stevie Staunton's comically oversized solar protection system, USA '94.

When I saw that hat, I just knew we had fcuk all chance that day.

iDave

JaseHeath wrote: »

oops... Galway. Meant to say Galway.

But sure it's an easy mistake to make; Mayo lose every final, don't they?!

Losing to 12 men was some embarrassment

oh and Mayos AI final record deserves a mention

The Strawman Argument

CrabRevolution wrote: »

I'm not saying we should have just been happy to be there, but losing all 3 games was a fairly probable outcome from the very start.

Yep, if there was anything embarrassing about it, it would've been the Irish people expecting anything more. I was pretty disconnected from it so I wouldn't know for sure if people were like that but it definitely seemed like there was some level of surprise to the results.

S. Goodspeed

sup_dude wrote: »

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.

I'm not sure it was as innocent as all that in fairness. Whoever stole or misplaced the B urine sample really hit a career / lifetime low.

branie2

The hooligans at the Ireland v Northern Ireland match in early 1995