Ultimate Irish Sports Quiz: Test Your Knowledge on Gaelic Games and Irish Athletes

Quiz

Which stick-and-ball team sport for women is a variant of the game "hurling"?
The Irish football team achieved a historic victory over which country in the 1994 FIFA World Cup?
Both Gaelic football and hurling is played by teams of how many players?
Who was the first Irishman to win the Tour de France?
Who is the most capped international player in Irish rugby?
Which Dublin stadium was demolished in 2007 to make way for the Aviva Stadium?
Which Irish athlete set a 2000 metres world record in 1994 that stood until 2017?
Which Irish swimmer won three gold medals at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta?
What is the nickname of boxer Conor McGregor?
Liam Brady finished his career with which London football club?
Which Northern Irish professional football club's badge displays Windsor Castle?
Name the principal national stadium of Ireland which is also the headquarters of the Gaelic Athletic Association?
Irish golfer Rory McIlroy has won how many major championships as of 2024?
The trophy awarded to the winners of the All-Ireland Senior Gaelic Football Championship is often known by what three-letter man's name?
In Irish sport, what is a sliotar?
Which Irish snooker player won the World Snooker Championship in 1997?
Former jockey Tony McCoy is commonly known by which two initials instead of his first name?
Which golfer won the British Open in both 2007 and 2008?
Former Manchester United footballer Roy Keane was born in the Ballinderry Park area of which city?
Which flat racecourse in County Kildare is home to Ireland’s five most important flat races?
FBD Semple Stadium is the home of hurling and Gaelic football for the province of Munster and which county?
In rugby union, Munster, Leinster, and Ulster were all officially founded in 1879. Which province was founded ten years later?
Which Irish sportsman would you associate with the town of Clones?
William Porterfield played for Ireland from 2006 to 2022, in which sport?
Name the only football club in Northern Ireland that George Best ever played competitively for?

Answers

Camogie
Italy
Fifteen
Stephen Roche
Brian O'Driscoll (133)
Lansdowne Road Stadium
Sonia O'Sullivan
Michelle Smith (Michelle Smith de Bruin)
The Notorious
West Ham United
Linfield Football Club
Croke Park
Four Majors
Sam (Sam Maguire Cup)
The ball used in the Gaelic games of hurling, camogie, and rounders
Ken Doherty
AP (AP McCoy)
Padraig Harrington
Cork
The Curragh Racecourse
Tipperary GAA
Connacht
Barry McGuigan (nicknamed The Clones Cyclone)
Cricket
Tobermore United