As We Are In The Six Nations Anyone Remember This?

[ToraToraTora]

When the IRA threatened England and probably more so, the legend Willie John McBride, when the Scots and welsh bottled it. We went, we lost but we went:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/60236293
"The match itself saw one of the most memorable moments in rugby history.

Before kick-off the Ireland team was deliberately held back so that England ran out alone. There followed a huge standing ovation from the crowd that lasted more than five minutes. " - I went to watch England (we lost again!) in Lansdowne road a few years ago and they still give us that ovation. Very emotional.

[New Judge]

I think (though cannot be sure) that Rugby Union is the only sport where an all-Ireland team is fielded.

[ToraToraTora]

Yeah I think it is judge, I remember once in 2009 ago I was in Dublin and the guy I was with, not very knowledgeable about rubgy, advised me not to wear my Lions shirt to the pub, I said why? It's the British and Irish Lions (or known as The British Isles in the southern hemispere) and Brian O'Driscoll is the captain!

[THECORBYLOON]

The Irish cricket team includes Ulster.

[New Judge]

So I was wrong! :-)

[THECORBYLOON]

Wikipedia gives these as all-Ireland sports:
American football
basketball
boxing 
cricket 
curling 
Gaelic games 
golf 
hockey
lawn bowls
korfball
rowing 
rugby league 
rugby union

[ichkeria]

Hockey and cricket two of the obvious many

Yes it was a memorable occasion
I remember the game at Twickenham the year before that finished 16-12. We were camped in the England half for much of the second half at 10-12.
There’s a great documentary by Brian O’Driscoll tracing the North-South divide/ connection in Irish rugby, in the course of which he goes to Loughgall, the birthplace of the Orange Order, and dons and beats a Lambeg drum

[Togo]

""Then there is that famous quote from the England captain Pullin at the post-match dinner: "We may not be very good, but at least we turn up."

His comment received another five-minute applause.""

Willie John McBride was the bravest of them all. He was raised in a protestant household in N.I. But everybody who follows R.U. knows what a lion of a man he is. Ask the Boks.
Born 1940 and still with us.

[douglas9401]

Unusual in troubled times for Scots or any other home nationals not to be pressed into service and sent into potential danger first though.

I'm beginning to see the courageous, never duplicitous, perish the thought, English in a different light.

If only they didn't hoard bog-roll and pasta every time someone sneezed eh?