The best Ireland results ever

Best team Ireland, and Northern Ireland sporting results ever. Ireland at the top, Ulster at the bottom

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1 1948 Grand slam Most Notable Victory being a 6-3 home Victory against Wales, the last match Ireland had of the season, being against the side who with Ireland who won all the Rugby 5 nations titles from 1947-1952, other than 1 shared by England,

2 2009 Ireland 30 France 21 Ireland beat France on the way to 2009 Grand Slam

3 1994 Ireland 1 Italy 0 Ireland beat Italy the eventual World Cup runners up, qualifying to the second round of the competition. in the USA.

4 1990 Ireland 0 Romania 0 Ireland 5-4 penalty win puts them to the Quarter finals of the World Cup in Italy.

5 1988 Ireland 1 England 0 Ireland beat England to finish above them in the group of Euro 88. in West Germany

6 1914 England 0 Ireland 3, Ireland win their first and only Home International Championships

7 2009 Wales 15 Ireland 17 Ireland win the last match of the 2009 Six Nations to win the Six Nations Grand Slam the first since 1948 by Ireland

8 1948 England 10 Ireland 11 on the way to Ireland winning the 1948 Grand Slam

8 1990 Netherlands 1 Ireland 1 Ireland qualify for the World Cup second round against the Euro 88 winners.

9 1987 Ireland 2 Bulgaria 0 Ireland defeat them to help put them into Euro 88, their first tournament

10 1991 Australia 19 Ireland 18 Ireland go out by 1 pt to the eventual winners, the smallest lose to the big 2 sides.

11 1995 Ireland 23 Wales 22 Ireland qualify for the World cup of Rugby Quarter Finals

12 1975 Athlone Town 0 AC Milan 0 Irish football's biggest result, they got beaten in the next game, so lost on agg, so went out in early rounds,

13 2006 Munster 23 Biarritz 19 win the European Rugy Cup

14 2007 Ireland 43 England 13 Ireland's record rugby win over England, it was in the six nations. Ireland went on to win the Triple crown, and finish 2nd in the competition

15 2007 Ireland beat Pakistan in the Cricket World Cup in the West Indies by three wickets.

16 2008 Munster 16 Toulouse 13 Munster win their 2nd European Rugby Cup

17 Padraig Harrington Wins The Open Championship in 2007 and 2008 and the PGA Championship, in 2008.

18 Stephen Roche Wins the 1987 Tour De France

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Ulster only top 7

1 1999 Ulster 21 Colomiers 6 win the Rugby Heineken Cup

2 1982 Northern Ireland 1 Spain 0, Ulster defeat the hosts of the world cup, and reach the Quarter finals for the second time

3 1980 Ulster wins it's first outright Home International Championship

4 1958 Northern Ireland 1 Czechoslovakia 0 Heads the team to the Quarter Finals for the first time

5 1966 Valerengen 1 Linfield 4 Linfield are the first of 2 Ulster teams to reach a European Quarter final. the only for a European cup.

6 1958 West Germany 2 Northern Ireland 2 drawing with the World Champions in the world cup

7 1930 Ulster/ Northern Ireland 7 Wales 0

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A site listing which nations in Europe have won the most European trophies http://www.lonympics.co.uk/europeantrophies.htm

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