The Dublin team plays most of their home league hurling and Gaelic Football games at Parnell Park.

Current League Champions and the first Irish side to reach the group stages of a European competition: 2011 – 12 UEFA Europa League group stage Shamrock Rovers play at Tallaght Stadium in South Dublin, play at Richmond Park, and play their home games at the UCD Bowl in Dún Laoghaire – Rathdown, while is based at Tolka Park.

* Dublin GAA, representative teams in Gaelic games

A game against the Irish Free State was played on 9 March 1929 in Dublin with Scotland winning 2 – 1 but regular games against a Republic of Ireland side did not begin until 1947.

** DCU GAA, a Gaelic games club in Dublin City University

As well as appearing on Ford Super Sunday with Richard Keys, Dublin has done commentary on a number of games including the UEFA Champions League games with Martin Tyler.

One of the main sights of Dublin is Croke Park, where Ireland's national games of Gaelic football and hurling may be seen.

A month after the 1924 Olympics he competed in Croke Park in Dublin, Ireland, in the Tailteann games.

Since then Swing Low, Sweet Chariot became a song to sing at England home games, in the same way that Fields of Athenry is sung in Dublin and Cwm Rhondda is sung at Cardiff.

The 2003 Special Olympics World Summer Games were hosted in Ireland, with participants staying in various host towns around the island in the lead up to the games before moving to Dublin for the events.

The community games were set up in 1968-initially only in Dublin as a way to deal with the problems of the lack of leisure-time activities for young people.

Of the eighteen players used in the three games, thirteen were from three Dublin clubs – Wanderers, Dublin University and Bective Rangers – and the remaining five were from Ulster.

The 1999 World Cup was staged in Wales though Ireland played all their pool games in Dublin.

At games played in Dublin " Ireland's Call " is always used alongside " Amhrán na bhFiann ".

All their games during the 6 Nations break went with home advantage, as did their trip to Dublin, before The Warriors turned up the heat and went unbeaten through their last 5 games: At home to Edinburgh ( winning the 1872 Cup in the process ) and the Scarlets, and on the road to Newport, Ulster and Munster ( the latter would win the HC the following week ) and meaning they would once again finish in 5th place.

Leinster's traditional home ground was Donnybrook Stadium, in Dublin 4 although the majority of home games are now played at the RDS Arena.

Increasing attendances at Leinster games led to a move across Dublin 4 from Donnybrook Stadium to the redeveloped RDS Arena.

Boylan coached the Ireland team in the 2006 International Rules Series against Australia in two games in Pearse Stadium, Salthill, Galway and Croke Park, Dublin in October, 2006.

For almost 60 years the club has been the centre of gaelic games in the historic south-west area of the city of Dublin.

* April 18-The Gaelic Athletic Association Congress in Dublin decides that the ban on foreign games is to stay in place.

Shamrock Rovers spent the next 22 years playing home games at various venues around Dublin and on occasions, Ireland.

The sloops Robert of Philadelphia and Good Intent of Dublin were stopped on 22 October 1717, and their cargo holds emptied.

The new recruits received three months ' hurried training, and were rapidly posted to RIC barracks, mostly in Dublin, Munster and eastern Connacht.

These Northmen may have been some of those who were driven out of Dublin in 902, but could also have been the same group who had defeated Domnall in 900.

From 1842, the boundaries of the city were comprehended by the baronies of Dublin City and the Barony of Dublin.

In 1930, the boundaries were extended by the Local Government ( Dublin ) Act.

As of 2005, approximately 800, 000 people were employed in the Greater Dublin Area, of whom around 600, 000 were employed in the services sector and 200, 000 in the industrial sector.

The Dublin Roller Girls were the first roller derby league to form in the country.

The semantics of Dublin Core were established and are maintained by an international, cross-disciplinary group of professionals from librarianship, computer science, text encoding, museums, and other related fields of scholarship and practice.

The additional terms were identified, generally in working groups of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, and judged by the DCMI Usage Board to be in conformance with principles of good practice for the qualification of Dublin Core metadata elements.

The guiding principle for the qualification of Dublin Core elements, colloquially known as the Dumb-Down Principle, states that an application that does not understand a specific element refinement term should be able to ignore the qualifier and treat the metadata value as if it were an unqualified ( broader ) element.

Three of the unarmed Dublin Metropolitan Police were shot dead on the first day of the Rising and their Commissioner pulled them off the streets.

Reinforcements were sent to Dublin from England, and disembarked at Kingstown on the morning of 26 April.

All 16 police fatalities and 22 of the British soldiers killed were Irishmen British families came to Dublin Castle in May 1916 to reclaim the bodies and funerals were arranged.

At first, many members of the Dublin public were simply bewildered by the outbreak of the Rising.

James Stephens, who was in Dublin during the week, thought, " None of these people were prepared for Insurrection.

Some exterior shots for the episode " And God Created Woman " were filmed in Dún Laoghaire, South County Dublin.

The house and lands of the poet Thomas Tickell were sold in 1790 to the Irish Parliament and given to the Royal Dublin Society for them to establish Ireland's first Botanic Gardens.

Plans to construct a Dublin Metro service including underground lines were mooted in 2001, but stalled in the financial crisis at the end of that decade.

The first steps towards reorganizing the defeated Irish Volunteers were taken on 27 October 1917 when a convention took place in Dublin.

The other elected members were: M. W. O ' Reilly ( Dublin ); Austin Stack ( Kerry ); Con Collins ( Limerick ); Seán MacEntee ( Belfast ); Joe O ' Doherty ( Donegal ); Paul Galligan ( Cavan ); Eoin O ' Duffy ( Monaghan ); Séamus Doyle ( Wexford ); Peadar Bracken ( Offaly ); Larry Lardner ( Galway ); Dick Walsh ( Mayo ) and another member from Connacht.

The six were all Dublin men: Eamonn Duggan ; Gearóid O ' Sullivan ; Fintan Murphy ; Diarmuid O ' Hegarty ; Dick McKee and Paddy Ryan.