A joint venture between the Irish Rugby Football Union, the FAI and the Government, saw it replaced by a new state-of-the-art 50, 000 seat Aviva Stadium, which opened in May 2010.

The national rugby league team are nicknamed the wolfhounds, and the Irish Rugby Football Union, which governs rugby union, changed the name of the country's A ( second-level ) national team in that code to the Ireland Wolfhounds in 2010.

The headquarters of the Irish Rugby Football Union Leinster Branch is located opposite Donnybrook Stadium, where the professional Leinster team played their home games until recently.

The RDS has its grounds here, and the Lansdowne Road headquarters of the Irish Rugby Football Union ( IRFU ) is on the boundary between Ballsbridge and Irishtown.

Some attribute the rigid arms found in most forms of Irish Dancing to the oppressive ruling classes of 18th and 19th century Ireland, either the priests, who banned dancing for being unsavory, or the English landlords who sought to wholly eradicate Irish culture through policies that outlawed Irish games ( Hurling and Irish Football ), Language and Dance.

were members of the Irish Football League until they folded in 2005.

* Munster Rugby, one of four provincial branches of the Irish Rugby Football Union, and also the professional rugby team operated by this body

That afternoon, a mixed force of the British Army the Royal Irish Constabulary, and the Black and Tans retaliated by shooting up a Gaelic Football match at Croke Park.

The newest club in the University is the American football team, who were accepted into the Irish American Football League ( IAFL ) in 2008.

He continued to progress in the 1934 – 35 campaign, and was selected by The Football League for an Inter-League game with the Irish League at The Oval, which finished 6 – 1 to the English.

Shamrock commonly appears as part of the emblem of sporting and official organisations representing both the whole of Ireland ( such as the Irish Rugby Football Union or Tourism Ireland ) as well as organisations specific to the Republic of Ireland ( such as IDA Ireland ) and Northern Ireland ( such as Police Service of Northern Ireland ).

On 18 October 1950, at Blackpool's Bloomfield Road, Stubbins netted five goals in the Football League's 6 – 3 victory over the Irish League in an exhibition match.

It is occasionally used for names of organisations and various other things ; for instance: Hibernia National Bank, Hibernian Insurance Group, Ancient Order of Hibernians, The Hibernian magazine, Hibernia College, Hibernian Football Club, HMS Hibernia, the Hibernia oil field, and modern derivatives, from Latin like Respublica Hibernica ( Irish Republic ) and Universitas Hiberniae Nationalis ( National University of Ireland ).

* Irish Football Association, the organising body for football in Northern Ireland

" Ireland's Call " is a song commissioned by the Irish Rugby Football Union for use at international Rugby Union fixtures.

* Establishment of the Irish Football Association ( IFA ) in Belfast as the world's fourth oldest football association.

International Rules Football matches have taken place between an Irish national team drawn from the ranks of Gaelic footballers, against an Australian national team drawn from the Australian Football League.

Neath Rugby Football Club, the famous and very successful " Welsh All Blacks ", play at The Gnoll who have managed to win 4 consecutive titles in the Semi Professional Principality Premiership and 3 Swalec Cup titles ( Previously known as Schweppes and Konica Minolta Cups ) and are now competing in a new competition The British and Irish Cup founded in 2009.

The FAW, along with the other three home nations ' associations ( The Football Association, Irish Football Association and Scottish Football Association ), had a permanent seat on the International Football Association Board ( IFAB ) and it was thought that many FIFA members were resentful of this and pressing for the four unions to unite into one combined side for the whole of the United Kingdom.

Scholarly associations & centers: the Children's Literature Association, the International Research Society for Children's Literature, the Library Association Youth Libraries Group, the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators the Irish Society for the Study of Children's Literature, IBBY Canada and Centre for International Research in Childhood: Literature, Culture, Media ( CIRCL ), National Centre for Research in Children's Literature.

The latter developed along socialist lines mirroring the political developments in Official Sinn Féin, and eventually in the late 1970s was renamed the Irish Democratic Youth Movement ( IDYM ), ending its semi-paramilitary training.

* Irish Age Group / Youth Championships ( July )

Then on 14 January 2012, Glentoran were knocked out of the Irish Cup by Amateur league side Newington Youth Club.

Recently, Glentoran formed a strategic alliance partnership with Insaka AFC, the football club of the African Youth Diaspora in the Irish Republic by forming Insaka-Glentoran Football Academy at the same time becoming the first club on the island of Ireland to adopt a whole club approach to the UEFA ' Respect ' campaign.

* Irish Football Youth League

Just one month later, in early October 2011, Altan gave a special Irish gig in Letterkenny, County Donegal with the Donegal Youth Orchestra and young traditional musicians from the Donegal Gaeltacht.

Community organisations include a unit of Toastmasters International, an Order of Malta branch and several youth groups-including Clondalkin Youth Theatre ( associated with the Irish National Association for Youth Drama ).

* Irish Centre for Talented Youth Home Page

* 7 May-The Irish Youth Hostel Service, An Óige, is established.

From 1992 he became actively involved in the Irish pro-life movement, becoming the lead spokesperson of Youth Defence, and as a student in Athlone RTC he unsuccessfully contested the election for the Presidency of Union of Students in Ireland.

* Rosario Youth Club F. C., a Northern Irish football club

When he is followed by a beautiful white horse called Tír na nÓg ( meaning " Land of Eternal Youth " in Irish ), from the sea to Dublin, where the boys and their father now live, the boys are overwhelmed with joy and the dreams of becoming cowboys.

* Harry Cavan Irish Youth Cup: 1

Many ancient Irish tales involve a hero entering a hill of the Sidhe, or crossing a sea to a Land of Youth, or passing down through the waters of a lake into an Otherworld.

Comhairle na nÓg is Irish for Youth Council.

It operated in the An Óige ( Irish Youth Hostel Association ) network, which is affiliated with Hostelling International.

* An Óige ( Irish Youth Hostel Association )

The National Youth Council of Ireland also known as the NYCI is a representative body for Irish youth organisations, a role that is recognised in the 2001 Youth Work Act.

* Irish Red Cross Youth

The authority, whose Irish language name literally translates as " the Labour Facilities Foundation ", was the successor to An Chomhairle Oiliúna (" the training council ", commonly referred to as AnCO ), the National Manpower Service and the Youth Employment Agency.

Delany looked to be Ireland's most promising young goalkeeper after the 1999 World Youth Championship, in which he was part of the " Golden generation " of Irish youth football ( which included talent such as Damien Duff, Richard Dunne and Robbie Keane ), a side that eventually made it to the quarter finals of the competition.