Sport in Ireland Football in 2003 accounted for 34% of total sports attendances at events in the Republic of Ireland, followed by hurling at 23%, association football (soccer) at 16% and rugby at 8%, and Initiative's ViewerTrack study measuring 2005 sports audiences showed the sport's highest-profile match, the All-Ireland Football Final, to be the most watched event of the nation's sporting year. Football is the most played team sport in Ireland. Gaelic football, hurling, golf, aerobics, cycling, swimming and billiards/snooker are the other sporting activities with the highest levels of playing participation in the Republic of Ireland. As Northern Ireland is a constitute
Emma Davis World Cup series. She was the Biathle World Champion in 2007 and was previously ranked 10th in the World on the ITU ranking list. Emma Davis Emma Davis (born 4 July 1987, Bangor, County Down) is a Northern Ireland-born Irish triathlete who competed in the 2008 Summer Olympics. Davis became Ireland's first ever Olympic qualifier for the Triathlon when her 15th place at the 2008 World Championships guaranteed her enough ranking points. She finished 37th in the Triathlon at the 2008 Summer Olympics event competing with two fractures in her sacrum due to a bike crash that occurred during the