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 Reason: Wherever Green Is Worn?: Multiculturalism in contemporary Ireland
In May, when the Irish national football team was training on the Pacific island of Saipan, its captain and only bona fide international star, Roy Keane, was summarily dismissed by the team manager, Mick McCarthy.
What shocked the Irish public was not so much the bitter nature of the disagreement between the feuding former teammates, but the vehemence and offensiveness of Keane’s remarks to McCarthy at a team meeting that led to the sacking.
The 30-year midfielder, who calls Cork home, currently captains one of Europe’s most storied professional soccer teams, Manchester United, and thus lives for much of the year in England where he represents the British team.
www.reason.com /0302/cr.mm.wherever.shtml   (2145 words)

  
 Reason: Wherever Green Is Worn?: Multiculturalism in contemporary Ireland
If the former sort of ethnic nationalism triumphed in late-19th century and early 20th century Ireland and continues to prevail among the more ardent adherents and sympathizers of the IRA and Sinn Fein, the latter notion is a lost but recuperable heritage of the United Irishmen.
The 30-year midfielder, who calls Cork home, currently captains one of Europe’s most storied professional soccer teams, Manchester United, and thus lives for much of the year in England where he represents the British team.
What shocked the Irish public was not so much the bitter nature of the disagreement between the feuding former teammates, but the vehemence and offensiveness of Keane’s remarks to McCarthy at a team meeting that led to the sacking.
www.reason.com /0302/cr.mm.wherever.shtml   (2145 words)

  
 ipedia.com: List of United Kingdom-related topics Article
Irish Football Association (not to be confused with the Football Association of Ireland)
Irish Football League (not to be confused with the Football League of Ireland)
NSPCC National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
www.ipedia.com /list_of_united_kingdom_related_topics.html   (352 words)

  
 Ireland Irish Sports - Irish: Miscellaneous Sports - Irish
Ireland's outdoor experts, are organising again a number of shooting and stalking opportunities in Ireland, Scotland and England.
Ryder Cup 2006 Ireland Irish Rugby Football Union is the body managing Rugby football in Ireland.
The IRFU has grounds at Football Association of Ireland is the organising body for soccer in Ireland.
www.browseireland.com /Sports_-_Irish/Miscellaneous_Sports_-_Irish/index.shtml   (1050 words)

  
 Northern Ireland national football team - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Northern Ireland team is the successor to the all-Ireland national football team that existed before the formation of the Irish Free State (now the Republic of Ireland) in 1921.
There is currently speculation of building a national stadium for Northern Ireland at the disused Maze prison outside Lisburn for the use of Rugby, Gaelic games and football.
Football Association of Ireland - National Team - Football League
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Northern_Ireland_national_football_team   (894 words)

  
 British Home Championship
At the time, the football associations of each Home Nations (The Football Association (England), the Scottish Football Association, the Football Association of Wales and the Irish Football Association) had slightly different rules for football, and when matches were played the rules of whoever was the home team were used.
Northern Irelands two home matches, against England and Wales, were not moved, so both teams refused to travel to Belfast to play.
By the early 1880s, the development of football in the United Kingdom was gathering pace and the four national football teams of the UK were playing regular friendlies against each other, with nearly every team playing all the others annually.
read-and-go.hopto.org /United-Kingdom-football/British-Home-Championship.html   (1128 words)

  
 Wikinfo Irish Football Association
The IFA continues to have responsibility for the running of the Northern Ireland national football team.
Along with the other "home nations" associations (the FA, the SFA and the Football Association of Wales) the IFA sits on the International Football Association Board which is responsible for the laws of the game.
The Irish Football Association (IFA) is the organising body for the sport of football (soccer) in Northern Ireland.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Irish_Football_Association   (367 words)

  
 Irish Football Association, Northern Ireland
MEMBERS of the IFA's Football For All World United team fulfilled a lifelong ambition last Tuesday night.
The great and the good gathered at the City Hall to celebrate 125 years of the Irish Football Association.
IRISH Football Association statement on the current stadium debate
www.irishfa.com   (140 words)

  
 Fermanagh Northern Ireland Supporters Club Constitution
The club be established for the purpose of supporting the Northern Ireland international football team, and to bring together like minded people to enjoy friendship and social activities with other Northern Ireland supporters in Fermanagh and the surrounding area.
The Fermanagh NISC is open to all genuine Northern Ireland football fans, regardless of religious, cultural, racial or political background, gender, age, sexual orientation or disability.
This is wholly in keeping with the principles of the Irish Football Associations football for all campaign, which the club wholeheartedly supports and promotes.
niskins.com /constitution.htm   (453 words)

  
 CNN.com - McIlroy quits Northern Ireland job - Oct. 15, 2003
Sammy McIlroy has resigned as manager of the Northern Ireland national team to take over at English Second Division side Stockport County.
Northern Ireland lost 1-0 to Greece in Athens on Saturday, to finish winless and goalless in eight Euro 2004 qualifying games.
Irish Football Association president Jim Boyce said earlier he was "in the dark" about McIlroy's decision to leave.
edition.cnn.com /2003/SPORT/football/10/15/Ireland.McIlroy   (387 words)

  
 Land of the Giants
And because it was not well-known in Ireland, hockey arrived unencumbered by the political dogma attached to hurling and Gaelic football—traditional Irish-Catholic games—and rugby and football (soccer)—traditionally Protestant sports.
Northern Ireland’s only exposure to professional hockey had been through the odd ESPN rebroad-cast of a National Hockey League (NHL) game in the wee hours.
It’s this sort of enthusiasm that can be found in supporters of Northern Ireland’s first pro hockey team and the most recent member of the five-year-old Ice Hockey Superleague.
www.readersdigest.ca /mag/2002/03/giants.html   (1932 words)

  
 PanARMENIAN.Net: Armenian News
In secretary general of the Northern Irish Football Federation David Bowen's words, they got in touch with the British embassy in Yerevan, where they were assured of absence of any problems due to the situation in Iraq.
Vazgen Manukian noted, "it is possible to result from a national movement."
The Council of Europe press service also reported that judges to represent Armenia and Azerbaijan at the European Court of Human Rights will be elected April 2.
panarmenian.net /news/eng/?date=2003-03-24   (427 words)

  
 Irish Football Association - GFDb.com
National team roster, Irish Cup and international results dating back to 1882, association history and contacts.
A site dedicated to Northern Ireland's national team.
Official governing body of soccer in Northern Ireland.
www.gfdb.com /association.aspx?id=168   (135 words)

  
 Irish Football Association, Northern Ireland
Celtic’s young starlet, Daniel Lafferty, was left behind in Belfast yesterday as Northern Ireland’s Under 17s travelled to Holland.
1982 World Cup football hero Billy Hamilton is calling on football Supporters, the media and general public to come out to support the IFA’s inaugural Intercultural Cup Final 2006 tonight (22 March).
Some of the IFA Grassroots Development Officers who are based in centres across the province, and who are currently undergoing a series of training programmes.
www.irishfa.com /index   (186 words)

  
 SportsKnowHow.com - Soccer Rules - Irish Foorball Association (IFA)
IFA regulated the game in the North, and all results obtained by the Irish national side and records in the Irish Football League and the cup competition stood as Northern Irish records.
It also continues to be responsible for running the Northern Ireland national football team.
Formed on November 18, 1880, IFA is the organizing body of football in Northern Ireland.
www.sportsknowhow.com /soccer/rules/irish-football-association.html   (133 words)

  
 Texaco Cup - Psychology Central
Irish clubs withdrew from the competition in 1973-74 and from 1974 to 1975 competed in a separate Texaco Cup.
The Texaco Cup was an association football competition that involved clubs from the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland which had not qualified for European competions.
psychcentral.com /psypsych/Texaco_Cup   (140 words)

  
 storySouth / Stephen Ausherman
Betsy and I met in 1985 at Elon College, home of the "Fightin' Christians." Our mascot was an Amish man with his fists raised, (a design ripped off from Notre Dame's Fighting Irish mascot,) and our athletic teams regularly battled the Quakers of our nearby rival, Guilford College.
This is perhaps the only time of year when nationalist communities will lower their tricolors, the flag of the Republic, in favor of an orange one, and Catholic children play in the streets, all wearing bright orange jerseys.
It's the color of their favorite football team, Armagh, who soon will battle their archrival in Dublin.
www.storysouth.com /summer2004/drumcree.html   (3293 words)

  
 The Football Association of Ireland
Irish soccer stars, past, present and future gathered today, 22nd March 2006, to launch this year's Pepsi FAI Summer Soccer Schools which will take place in over 200 locations nationwide.
Ireland will play in the UEFA U17 Elite qualifying phase next week in Dublin against Romania, Israel and Serbia and Montenegro.
Dundalk and Kildare County clash at Oriel Park tonight in Division One of the eircom National League bidding to climb away from the bottom of the table
www.fai.ie   (349 words)

  
 Northern Ireland (UK)
A Northern Ireland Assembly may operate for some months without an executive, the Irish PM tells the BBC.
This purpose of this site is to provide information relevant to Northern Ireland region of the United Kingdom.
The DUP is close to the point where it will talk to loyalist paramilitaries, Peter Robinson says.
www.norniron.co.uk   (397 words)

  
 Flagging
For example, patrons of the Red Devils bar on the Falls Road in Belfast doubtless feel no less Irish for supporting an English football team (with a Scottish manager who used to play for Rangers).
The advantage of this approach is that the flag of St Patrick is distinctively Irish, the saint himself has a northern association, and the diagonal cross comprises the Irish section of the Union flag.
Such a flag could be the basis for a ‘rebranding’ of Northern Ireland as a normal, civic society with a distinctive, regional cachet, and the image should be capable of reproduction, on official publications, for regional sports teams and so on.
www.democraticdialogue.org /working/flags.htm   (397 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Northern Ireland national football team
The Republic of Ireland national football team was created when the Irish Free State came into being, but the Northern Ireland team continued to pick players from across the whole of Ireland until the practice was stopped by FIFA in 1950.
The Northern Ireland team is effectively the successor to the all-Ireland national football team that existed until 1920.
The Northern Ireland national football team represents the Northern Ireland region of the United Kingdom in international football.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Northern_Ireland_national_football_team   (332 words)

  
 Linfield FC - TheBestLinks.com - Belfast, Football (soccer), Northern Ireland, Scotland, ...
The governing body of Northern Ireland football, the Irish Football Association, leases the ground for use by the national team.
Linfield F.C. the Blues) are a Northern Irish football team, founded in March 1886 in south Belfast, who play at Windsor Park, the 'home' of the Northern Ireland international team.
Linfield FC, Belfast, Football (soccer), Northern Ireland, Scotland, 1886, 2004...
www.thebestlinks.com /Linfield_FC.html   (172 words)

  
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 Wikinfo Irish Football Association
The IFA continues to have responsibility for the running of the Northern Ireland national football team.
Along with the other "home nations" associations (the FA, the SFA and the Football Association of Wales) the IFA sits on the International Football Association Board which is responsible for the laws of the game.
The Irish Football Association (IFA) is the organising body for the sport of football (soccer) in Northern Ireland.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Irish_Football_Association   (367 words)

  
 Northern Ireland national football team - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Northern Ireland team is the successor to the all-Ireland national football team that existed before the formation of the Irish Free State (now the Republic of Ireland) in 1921.
The team selected by the Irish Football Association (based in Belfast, Northern Ireland) continued to claim to represent (and pick players from) all of Ireland even after the partition.
A rival Ireland team was set up by the Football Association of Ireland (based in Dublin, Irish Free State) in 1926 which also claimed to represent all of Ireland.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Northern_Ireland_national_football_team   (367 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Irish Football Association Article
The IFA regulated the game in the North, and all results obtained by the Irish national side and records in the Irish Football League and the cup competition stood as Northern Irish records.
The IFA continues to have responsibility for the running of the Northern Ireland national football team.
Along with the other "home nations" associations (the FA, the SFA and the Football Association of Wales) the IFA sits on the International Football Association Board which is responsible for the laws of the game.
www.ipedia.com /irish_football_association.html   (340 words)

  
 Reason: Wherever Green Is Worn?: Multiculturalism in contemporary Ireland
In May, when the Irish national football team was training on the Pacific island of Saipan, its captain and only bona fide international star, Roy Keane, was summarily dismissed by the team manager, Mick McCarthy.
The 30-year midfielder, who calls Cork home, currently captains one of Europe’s most storied professional soccer teams, Manchester United, and thus lives for much of the year in England where he represents the British team.
If the former sort of ethnic nationalism triumphed in late-19th century and early 20th century Ireland and continues to prevail among the more ardent adherents and sympathizers of the IRA and Sinn Fein, the latter notion is a lost but recuperable heritage of the United Irishmen.
www.reason.com /0302/cr.mm.wherever.shtml   (2145 words)

  
 SportsKnowHow.com - Soccer Rules - Irish Foorball Association (IFA)
It also continues to be responsible for running the Northern Ireland national football team.
IFA regulated the game in the North, and all results obtained by the Irish national side and records in the Irish Football League and the cup competition stood as Northern Irish records.
IFA used to be the organizing body for the sport across all of Ireland, however, in 1921, the Football Association of Ireland was set up to regulate the game in the entire country.
www.sportsknowhow.com /soccer/rules/irish-football-association.html   (133 words)

  
 Land of the Giants
A few weeks before my arrival in Belfast, one of the stars of Northern Ireland’s national football team, Neil Lennon, was booed at home by Protestant fans because he plays for the Catholic Glasgow Celtic.
And because it was not well-known in Ireland, hockey arrived unencumbered by the political dogma attached to hurling and Gaelic football—traditional Irish-Catholic games—and rugby and football (soccer)—traditionally Protestant sports.
Northern Ireland’s only exposure to professional hockey had been through the odd ESPN rebroad-cast of a National Hockey League (NHL) game in the wee hours.
www.readersdigest.ca /mag/2002/03/giants.html   (1932 words)

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