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What nickname is given to Kilkenny sporting teams?
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The Cats
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Which Irish golfer won the PGA championship and The Open in 2008?
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Padraig Harrington.
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The Scottish sport of shinty has a different name in Ireland. What is it?
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Hurling.
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Which horse trained by John Oxx, won the 2009 Eclipse, Epsom Derby, 2,000 Guineas, Irish Champion Stakes and Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe?
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Sea The Stars
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What is Arkle, from which the legendary Irish racehorse took its name?
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A Scottish mountain
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Which Englishman became an honorary Irishman for his management of Ireland’s Italia 90 soccer team?
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Jackie Charlton.
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Before international rugby was played at Croke Park, what was the name of the ground which was the home of Irish Rugby?
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Lansdowne Road.
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An Irish trained horse is the only animal to date to win both the Champion Hurdle and the Cheltenham Gold Cup, National Hunt racing’s Blue Riband events. Who was she?
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Dawn Run.
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What name is given to the ball in hurling?
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A sliotar.
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The All Ireland Senior Football Championship is held for a trophy named after whom?
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Sam Maguire.
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Which county has won the Sam Maguire Cup for football four times more than any other county?
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Kerry.
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Niall Quinn is chairman of which English Premier League club?
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Sunderland
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Who is the legendary Irish jockey who won the Grand National at his fifteenth attempt?
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A.P. McCoy
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Roddy Doyle’s ‘The Van’ is set against the background of which sporting event?
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The 1990 World Cup (Italia 90).
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Which jockey was most closely associated with racehorse Arkle throughout his career?
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Pat Taaffe
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What record did Irish bobsledder Aoife Hoey set at the 2010 Olympics?
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She was the tallest woman competitor (6’ 4’’).
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Who was Ireland’s goalie in Italia 90 whose fantastic save against Romania put them into the quarter – finals?
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Packie Bonner
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Belfast’s City airport is named after which Irish sports person?
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George Best.
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What sport did Irishman Alex ‘Hurricane’ Higgins play?
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Snooker.
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Padraig Harrington is a golfer but what does Mrs John Harrington do?
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She is Jessie Harrington, racehorse trainer.
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Which Irish snooker player beat Steve Davis to become world champion in 1985?
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Dennis Taylor
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Which Irish boxer of Traveller heritage became a hero in the 1996 Olympics?
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Francie Barrett
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Which soccer club was Roy Keane most closely associated with as a player?
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Manchester United
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Which Irish sprinter has competed in both the Paralympics and 2010 European AthleticsChampionships?
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Jason Smyth
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Which boxer styled himself 'The Celtic Warrior?'
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Steve Collins
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Dubliner Jason 'Jacko' Barry is an international player of which sport?
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Darts
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Who was the first manager of legendary boxer Barry McGuigan
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Barney Eastwood
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Tommy, Paul, Philip, Nina. Which Irish racing family?
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The Carberrys
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Which Irish racehorse trainer won the Cheltenham Glenfarclas cross-country race three years in a row?
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Enda Bolger
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Which Irish athlete was the women's 5000m world champion in 1995
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Sonia O'Sullivan
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Ireland won the Six Nations Championship in 2009 in what sport?
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Rugby Union
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