Sport
- Carroll's Irish Open is won by Hubert Green (USA).
- The Republic of Ireland national football team fail to qualify for the 1978 FIFA World Cup in Argentina.
- In September Cork Hurlers complete the '3 in a row' by beating Wexford in the All-Ireland senior hurling final).
- Kerry footballers start on their road to '4 in a row' by beating Dublin in the All-Ireland senior football final).
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Famous quotes containing the word sport:
“Drag racing is a sport of egos, and it’s all male egos.”
—Shirley “Cha Cha” Muldowney (b. 1940)
“Sweet Auburn, loveliest village of the plain,
Where health and plenty cheered the labouring swain,
Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid,
And parting summer’s lingering blooms delayed,
Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease,
Seats of my youth, when every sport could please,
How often have I loitered o’er the green,
Where humble happiness endeared each scene.”
—Oliver Goldsmith (1730?–1774)
“I wish glib and indiscriminate critics of industrialists had some conception of the problems that have to be met by factory management.... General condemnation of employers is a favorite indoor sport of the uninformed intelligentsia who assume the role of lance- bearers for labor.”
—Mary Barnett Gilson (1877–?)