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
Mark Davis (fisherman) Mark Davis (fisherman) Mark Davis (born October 11, 1963) is a professional sport fisherman of the Bass Anglers Sportsman Society (B.A.S.S.) and is one of only two anglers to have won the B.A.S.S. Angler of the Year and the Bassmasters Classic tournament in the same year. Davis was born in Mount Ida, Arkansas. He has competed in 234 tournaments, and had five first place finishes and forty-five top ten finishes. He resides in Mount Ida, with his wife Tilly and their three children James, Hunter and Fisher, Tournaments Entered: 250<br> Winnings: $1,683,702.30<br> Wins: 6<br> Top 10s: 51<br> Money finishes: 167