Where have you watched an Ireland game?

Come on then , lets lighten the mood here away from all the serious stuff.

Wheres the best/worst places or most extremes youve gone to in order to watch an Ireland game ??

I'll give you my mine :

For Ireland v Russia I was in Canada with my long suffering girlfriend. We had our itenary all worked out and were in Jasper when I discovered that the bar in town I was told that had the game on - didnt. The bar staff reckoned the only chance to see the game was to go to Vancouver.

I convinced my girlfriend that we could get ourselves a few days in Vancouver squeezed in to the holiday and in exchange for putting up with the journey I would go horse riding with her (which I really wasnt looking forward to).

I drove for 10 hours straight (one break for food and bathroom - 600 miles) and after checking in to a hotel , got up at 5am and took her to the Croatian Cultural Centre in Vancouver which was the only place anyone knew was showing it.

They had a large shed out the back of the bar and a weak satellite signal and 20 of us squeezed in to watch the 1-1 draw.


I did meet two guys in their 50s in Japan who had sold their cars to get the money for the trip but had told their wives they had them nicked from their local in Monaghan.

Thats a good story.

Nothing as exciting as that but I watched the Ireland Italy World Cup 94 game when I was at the Gaeltacht in Connamara. We had to watch it with the sound down in case we heard any English.

I saw the Ireland Holland game in 2001 in Nevada Smiths bar in New York. I was living there at the time.

I was living in Riga at the time of the Ireland-Holland playoff at Anfield for Euro 96. Nowhere was showing the match on TV so I had to listen to the radio coverage. The only place I could get a reception was up on the roof of our apartment building (flat roof by the way). It was minus 15 degrees centigrade with me dressed in about 10 layers constantly walking around the roof as the reception kept shifting depending on where I stood. The girlfriend brought some of our Latvian neighbours up to have a laugh at me.:(

"Nothing as exciting as that but I watched the Ireland Italy World Cup 94 game when I was at the Gaeltacht in Connamara. We had to watch it with the sound down in case we heard any English." :D

Mmm...watched plenty of matches at 2, 3, 4am in Australia.

Had two big arguments with the ex girlfriend over watching Ireland matches. She was English and we watced a double header at the Irish club in Perth (Scotland v England followed by Ireland v either Belgium or Turkey...cant remember which play off it was). She went mad at me for cheering for Scotland. Put her in a right mood. I told her there was no chance I'd go for England. She said she'd be following Ireland, so i should in turn follow England. Needless to say when I hit the roof after Scotland scored along with all the Scots and Irish in the venue, sparks flew. She called me every name under the sun and stormed out At 3.30am! I let her go and watched the Irish match afterwards and met her in the car after at about 6am(she was asleep). Worst thing was I had to go straight to work after.

Needless to say she is my ex now! Ha ha

My family moved to Oz for a year or so in '89 and I remember watching the Italia '90 quarter final game against Schilachi and Co. in Sydney - back when I was just a nipper!! :D

We were late for Mass cos we stayed for the end... hehe

My mate had to listen to a match in a phone booth in rural Italy while his mum put the radio up against her home phone in Derry.

I got chucked by an old girlfriend after abandoning a walk in Aran Mor to watch the Ireland 2 Croatia 2 friendly in '96 in the pub in the harbour. I met an old mate from UCD watching the match so actually it was quite a good outcome.

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Originally Posted by Stuttgart88

I got chucked by an old girlfriend after abandoning a walk in Aran Mor to watch the Ireland 2 Croatia 2 friendly in '96 in the pub in the harbour.

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Getting dumped for a friendly - now that's a real supporter.

Stuttgart
Now thats what I call hard core!

i was in pokhara in nepal 1999 , went for dinner and then to bar for a pint it was showing highlights of yugoslavia v ireland 1999 i seen last 5 mins a few liverpudlians had found out the game was on and were looking for me all day(i had watched a liverpool game 4 days before witht hem)
i seen 5 mins...

It was worth it, believe me!

Ha ha Stuttgart. Classic stuff

Stuttgart has the lead !

Although I live in England I actually met my girlfriend in Dublin after the Estonia game five years ago so whenever she wants to complain about me watching an Ireland game I always comeback with "if it wasnt for Irish football we never would have met!"

Women .. know your limits !

I was working in Greece at the time of Belgium - Ireland 2nd leg play-off in 97. Had gone away for the weekend to a small town called Volos. Anyway, had given up on finding anywhere to watch the game when I spotted some footy on a TV in a closed TV shop across the road from where I was staying. Went over and couldn't believe it was the game!! Got myself a few amstel tinnies and spent 1 1/2 hours drinking by myself watching the game in a shop window! Made friends with lots of stray dogs but still went hope unhappy after the 2-1 defeat :(

When I was in Germany for Euro 88 the day of the Ireland- Soviet Union game in Hannover, Holland played England in the Group earlier. Myself and a few lads walked into a resident TV lounge in a hotel in Hannover to watch the Dutch beat the English. Then it was on to the stadium for the Ireland game.

Nothing as exciting as that but I watched the Ireland Italy World Cup 94 game when I was at the Gaeltacht in Connamara. We had to watch it with the sound down in case we heard any English.

Ditto, i was in cloaiste lurgan, in spideal. what a memory!

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Ditto, i was in cloaiste lurgan, in spideal. what a memory!

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The very same. Maybe we watched the game together or even worse danced together at a ceili.

i watched the italian 94 game from the adelaide hospital ...just after got my tonsils out - couldnt really talk but i managed to scream that night...got sick and had some mad infection afterwards...nearly feckin died but it was worth it

Listening to Ireland Holland match 1990 on RTE radio in London as the signal wavered every 10 seconds..england Egypt game on TV and I was ****ed off for not going out to Italy or home as I had previously been in Germany for 88 Then I heard Jim Beglin go beserk as the signal came back on the radio..went mad with my brother and some friends..Stuggart did you play in the UCD superleague by any chance? Same question for college till I die.

Noelys Guitar

Well when I was in UCD, there were no DARTS so being a Northsider meant that any visits to Belfield at weekend meant 1.5 hour to 2 hour bus journeys in each direction.so no I didn't play but I watched one or two though after Saturday morning lectures though. One of my best friends was the Superleague secretary and kept goal for Foster during his first year in College. He actually ended up playing for every UCD representative team before he left College. Ending with 3 League of Ireland Appearances and 3 in the Shield.