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Old 01-17-2009, 10:03 AM   #41
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Yes. Rugby, football and field hockey are probably the 3 main international team sports. Football is the only one with separate national teams.

Gaelic sports, which are as big in Ireland, are, of course, ultimately competed on an All-Ireland basis.

It is only football which has this weird political issue over having one team. It's the way forward for our football teams. We're a small island with several popular sports competing for a small pool of talent. It makes sense for the football team to come from the whole island and pool the talent together. An Irish united football team would be quite a handy little side at the moment.
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Old 01-19-2009, 02:00 PM   #42
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How does that work? I always thought Ireland and Northern Ireland were separate countries. For example, how is this different than Holland-Belgium competing together, or even say USA-Canada?
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Despite citizens of Northern Ireland having the right to claim Irish citizenship, it isn't. Some countries just like to pool their resources in sporting events.
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It's obviously different. When the Irish teams were established in rugby, for example, it was still just Ireland. Same as for football, but the Irish free state formed its own association after partition. It's not the same situation as two countries which have always been separate. Ireland was a single nation less than a hundred years ago, and possibly will be again within the next 100.

Anyway, Belgium probably won't be a country for much longer.
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Good point. Forgot they've only been seperated since 1923.
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