Sports
Main article: Sport in Northern Ireland See also: Sport in IrelandSome team sports are played on an all-Ireland basis, while in others Northern Ireland fields its own team.
- Belfast Giants
- Gaelic football
- Hurling
- Gaelic handball
- Milk Cup, an international youth association football competition held in Northern Ireland
- Northern Ireland national football team
- Royal Portrush Golf Club
- Ulster GAA
- Ulster Rugby
Internationally well-known sports people include:
- George Best - footballer, born in Belfast
- Sir Danny Blanchflower - footballer
- Darren Clarke - golfer, born in Dungannon
- Joey Dunlop
- Jack Kyle
- Dave Finlay
- Paddy Hopkirk
- John Watson (racing driver)
- Mike Gibson (rugby union)
- Mike Bull
- Alex Higgins
- David Humphreys
- Eddie Irvine
- Dave McAuley
- Willie John McBride
- Tony McCoy
- Wayne McCullough
- Dame Mary Peters
- Ronan Rafferty
- Dennis Taylor
- Andrew Trimble
- Norman Whiteside
- Cormac McAnallen
- Rory McIlroy
Read more about this topic: Culture Of Northern Ireland
Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“...I didn’t come to this with any particular cachet. I was just a person who grew up in the United States. And when I looked around at the people who were sportscasters, I thought they were just people who grew up in the United States, too. So I thought, Why can’t a woman do it? I just assumed everyone else would think it was a swell idea.”
—Gayle Gardner, U.S. sports reporter. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 85 (June 17, 1991)
“It is usual for a Man who loves Country Sports to preserve the Game in his own Grounds, and divert himself upon those that belong to his Neighbour.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)
“Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn,
Thy sports are fled and all thy charms withdrawn;
Amidst thy bowers the tyrant’s hand is seen,
And desolation saddens all thy green;
One only master grasps the whole domain,
And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain;”
—Oliver Goldsmith (1730?–1774)