Ireland Football

American college teams and thousands of their fans have been travelling to Dublin for football games since 1988.

We've got a bunch of Americans who want to be Irish, and a bunch of Irish who want to be Americans.’" Please review their details and accept them to load the content. The day may come when tens of thousands of Americans pouring into Dublin at the end of the summer to watch their own sport might not be a quirk so much as an annual celebration. Please review their details and accept them to load the content. For instance, Notre Dame travels all over the United States every season, which is part of its identity, and Ireland adds to the luster of "traveling the brand," as ND Athletic Director Jack Swarbrick put it in an interview with me. "And people in the stadium never sat down." Please review their details and accept them to load the content. According to an account in The New York Times, O'Brien – a big guy, as football players tend to be – got a lot of questions about whether he played the game. I was a graduate student in Scotland at the time and, as in Ireland, we saw an edited-down version of one game a week, plus highlights. the advertisement proclaims, touting a game on August 27th at the Aviva Stadium between Northwestern University and the University of Nebraska. 75 of these were from the professional National Football League (NFL) and seven from college games. The first thing to know is, despite regular controversies and concern about concussions, American football is the most popular sport in the United States. American football accounted for 82 of the top 100 telecasts of all types in the United States last year.

Aviva Ireland, a proud sponsor of the IRFU, the FAI Men's and Women's National Football teams, and Aviva Stadium, was joined by Leinster rugby player Jack Dunne ...

The support of my teammates and the solidarity we share on and off the pitch has always allowed me to express myself in football and in life. For the month of June, Aviva Pride will be celebrating the diversity within the LGBTQ+ community by sharing educational resources and creating fundraising opportunities. By choosing to #LaceUpWithPride, together we can show LGBTQ+ young people that there are spaces for them to come together and be who they are. In a year where we have seen first-hand the power of sport, we are hopeful that people will rally together to help raise much needed funds to support the crucial work of Belong To.” That said, we can all do more to ensure that Irish sport is a safe space for members of the LGBTQ+ community. Through our frontline work with LGBTQ+ youth, we see the confidence playing sport can give to young people who need it most.