Most embarrassing Irish sporting moment?

Optimalprimerib · 29-06-2015 07:24AM

Has to be the phantom goal in the 2010 leinster final. At the time i was delighted with the decision and tried my damnedness to justify it. But i couldnt. I think everyone from both meath and lost felt they lost that day.

the groutch · 29-06-2015 08:00AM

The "Bertie Bowl".
€43m spent on it without a single brick laid.

jack presley · 29-06-2015 08:24AM

Didn't some minister about 10-15 years ago come out and say with a straight face that Ireland should bid for the Olympics?

diomed · 29-06-2015 08:41AM

John Delaney obviously had just come out of some media training.
An interview went something like this
Delaney: Am I doing a good job?
Delaney: Good question. Well, actually, I am doing a good job.

That interview, his "rapport" with the fans, his appointment as international manager of a player who managed a UK lower league team, his claim for a 33rd World Cup place, his taking $5 million from Blatter - all embarrassing.

AudreyHepburn · 29-06-2015 08:50AM

Zebra3 wrote: »

The Gah desperate for attention and money in 1991 ordering a replay in the Dublin-Meath game after somebody had won the match.

That's not what happened. At all. It was a draw, twice in a row if I'm not mistaken.

Working class people jumping on the rugby bandwagon. Sad.

Snobbery of the highest order. Rugby is anyone's game nowadays , not just the so called 'Upper Classes'.

IMO the whole Michelle De Bruin fiasco was one of the most cringe worthy episodes in Irish sporting history.

AudreyHepburn · 29-06-2015 08:55AM

philstar wrote: »

Gaelic Games

why do we persist with this parochial muck, we should concentrate on international sports

Clearly you've never watched a Gaelic match of any sort in your life.

Nothing beats a day out at Croker!

LiamoSail · 29-06-2015 09:09AM

mikemac1 wrote: »

An English club and a Scottish club playing the "Dublin Derby"

Did that actually happen or are you confusing it with the Dublin Decider?

The Irish fans doing a Mexican wave at a recent international would be up there for me. That, the booing of Raheem Sterling and Delaney crying on the radio because his bird was getting pelters on Twitter

crybaby · 29-06-2015 09:10AM

I think the fact that we won't qualify for Euro 2016 must be up there

Euro 2012 was fairly cringe inducing stuff

ComfortKid · 29-06-2015 09:23AM

crybaby wrote:

I think the fact that we won't qualify for Euro 2016 must be up there

crybaby wrote:

Euro 2012 was fairly cringe inducing stuff

Why is not qualifying be embarrassing? Germany the best team in the world. Poland a population of 40million. Scotland have a better team than us. Not embarrassing at all.

Euro2012 we played Spain worlds best at the time. Italy one of the best teams of all time. Croatia were ranked 7th at the time.

ComfortKid · 29-06-2015 09:24AM

I'd hate to be at a match if it was just boardsies at it. Not aloud sing, not aloud support our team if we're losing, not aloud do a mexican wave. Should we just sit there like vegetables?

Menas · 29-06-2015 09:27AM

ComfortKid wrote: »

I'd hate to be at a match if it was just boardsies at it. Not aloud sing, not aloud support our team if we're losing, not aloud do a mexican wave. Should we just sit there like vegetables?

And there would be disagreements from all in attendance about the final score.

spurious · 29-06-2015 09:39AM

The hammer thrower was Declan Hegarty. As I recall, his personal best was pretty good and in an Olympics without the big hammer throwing Soviet states, he should have been in with a decent chance of a medal. It's a tricky sport though. If your timing's off that's it.

I think he's a doctor now. Another fine mesh he's gotten himself into.

dan1895 · 29-06-2015 10:02AM

There's was a sports minister not too long ago who said we should set up a team in Dublin and enter them in the Champions League. A sports minister showing that he has no knowledge of how the world's most popular sport actually works.

ComfortKid · 29-06-2015 10:22AM

dan1895 wrote:

There's was a sports minister not too long ago who said we should set up a team in Dublin and enter them in the Champions League. A sports minister showing that he has no knowledge of how the world's most popular sport actually works.

Haha dont we have a team that enters it every year. Which minister was this?

blade1 · 29-06-2015 10:22AM

ComfortKid wrote: »

Not aloud sing, not aloud support , not aloud mexican wave. Should we just sit there like vegetables?

Just keep it down a bit so!!:D

Son Of A Vidic · 29-06-2015 11:25AM

Not sure if this was mentioned, but Sonia O'Sullivan being forced to strip naked in the tunnel before her race at the Atlanta Olympics in 1996. Was a particularly embarrassing moment for Irish sport.

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/sonia-forced-to-strip-before-her-heat-1.71643

the_monkey · 29-06-2015 11:31AM

crybaby wrote: »

What a sad, pathetic individual

Indeed, the time he ran out on the F1 track - endangering the drivers and the stewards life ... what a f*cking asshole ..

juniord · 29-06-2015 11:36AM

when cork went off to catch a train during a national league final , they didnt come out for extra time , the ref restarted with only the dublin team on the pitch ,

wp_rathead · 29-06-2015 11:44AM

Didn't we bid to host the Euros before with Scotland -
We proposed 3 stadiums :
1) that had been recently burnt (old landsdowne)
2) Rule 42 still in place so couldn't play in it (Croker)
3) Didn’t exist (Bertie Bowl)

Needless to say we got nowhere

ComfortKid · 29-06-2015 11:48AM

wp_rathead wrote:

Didn't we bid to host the Euros before with Scotland - We proposed 3 stadiums : 1) that had been recently burnt (old landsdowne) 2) Rule 42 still in place so couldn't play in it (Croker) 3) Didnâ€™t exist (Bertie Bowl)

I think the Aviva is hosting a few games for the 2020 Euros?

dirtyden · 29-06-2015 11:48AM

dan1895 wrote: »

There's was a sports minister not too long ago who said we should set up a team in Dublin and enter them in the Champions League. A sports minister showing that he has no knowledge of how the world's most popular sport actually works.

There was active interest in moving Wimbledon FC to Dublin back in the mid nineties. Is that what you are talking about? This was led by the Wimbledon ownership not by some irish minister. If it is something else you are referencing I apologise.

dirtyden · 29-06-2015 11:50AM

wp_rathead wrote: »

Didn't we bid to host the Euros before with Scotland -
We proposed 3 stadiums :
1) that had been recently burnt (old landsdowne)
2) Rule 42 still in place so couldn't play in it (Croker)
3) Didn’t exist (Bertie Bowl)

Needless to say we got nowhere

Id have to agree with this one. A laughable proposal. Bertie took the UEFA committee to see a green field site and a stadium he did not know could be used in the bid process (Croke Park, in the middle of championship season). There was no agreement from the GAA to hand over their stadium in the middle of their season and rightly so. Id say the UEFA executives only showed up out of politeness.

29-06-2015 11:52AM

salmocab wrote: »

the 60 nil loss to NZ was the morning of my wedding, every time I look at the wife I have to think of that game.

Haha I also got married that day, was a good excuse to start the champagne a bit early!

dan1895 · 29-06-2015 12:15PM

dirtyden wrote: »

There was active interest in moving Wimbledon FC to Dublin back in the mid nineties. Is that what you are talking about? This was led by the Wimbledon ownership not by some irish minister. If it is something else you are referencing I apologise.

No it wasn't that although the people here wanting that to happen are another entry onto the list.

To answer the other poster I think it was McDaid but am probably wrong.

irishguitarlad · 29-06-2015 12:18PM

That mayo fella running on to the field against kerry last year, it was hilarious but really embarrassing also, staying with mayo that song they had about Sam mcguire coming home to mayo.

Bridge93 · 29-06-2015 12:20PM

crybaby wrote: »

I think the fact that we won't qualify for Euro 2016 must be up there

Euro 2012 was fairly cringe inducing stuff

Not qualifying for a competition 'must be up there' with the most embarrassing sporting moments ever? Get a grip. What about every other time we haven't qualified?
And then qualifying is embarrassing as well? Losing to 3 of the worlds top 10 and two of the finalists?
What a stupid post.

Akrasia · 29-06-2015 12:34PM

gizmo23 wrote: »

I think someone got the Clare Offaly game of 98 mistaken when the ref blew up with 5 or 6 minutes of time left to play... I really doubt it was to do with the "GAH" wanting more money ... But hey let's not facts ruin a good story ðŸ˜€

There was 2 minutes of normal time and Jimmy Cooney blew the whistle with Clare 3 points ahead

I don't think he ever refereed a championship game again

While the mistake he made was an embarrassment, it was nothing compared to the shocking behaviour of some of the gaa supporters who sent him death threats

Akrasia · 29-06-2015 12:41PM

YFlyer wrote: »

Only team in Ireland to beat the All Blacks. Can't cringe that.

The womens team beat them last year in the world cup.

tricky D · 29-06-2015 12:48PM

When some turkey won the Tour de France in 1987. Translation: when Charlie Haughey mooched on to the podium when Stephen Roche won the TdF. /cringeworthy

partyguinness · 29-06-2015 12:48PM

The thousands of Irish people that are quite happy to spend their money traveling to the UK every wend to watch games but have never set foot inside a LOI ground....:(

Most embarrassing Irish sporting moment?

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