As an Englishman and a rugby fan I remember that day with mixed feelings, I thought it was entirely fitting that Ireland won convincingly but at the same time was hugely disappointed with our performance. Croke park became a fortress that day. A great game in a great venue, full marks to the GAA for allowing it.

Beating the All Blacks was a bit special but nothing compares to the comprehensive demolition of England Rugby in the GAA's magnificent Croke Park stadium. Never has a victory over the English been so paramount, and rarely has an Irish win been so beautifully executed. It was one of the most heroic and memorable performance of all time from all of the Irish players. Dempsey; Horgan, O'Driscoll; D'Arcy; Hickie; O'Gara, Stringer; Horan, Best,Hayes; O'Callaghan, O'Connell; Easterby, Wallace,Leamy. Substitutes - Trimble;Paddy Wallace; Boss;Flannery; S.Best;Neil Best; Mick O'Driscoll. Ronan O'Gara had 100% success with his kicks, as did Paddy Wallace. My namesake Girvan Dempsey scored the opening try, others followed by David Wallace, Horgan and Boss.

A momentous occasion and I had the honor of being there for the England/Ireland game. An extremely emotional occasion

will never forget the emotion around the english match in croker. great day in irish rugby!

God bless Ireland! I remember that day. What a day! The whole country sang the "Soldier Song"!

words cant describe the pride i feel every time i see this

Thanks to everyone who supported us I'm Irish and I appreciate it

Amazing thing is two of the English players are now coaching Ireland.

This video should be required watching for the leaving cert!

It was a day to be proud of... Never in my experience has any anthem been met with disrespect. A proud moment indeed. Sean Kelly and all of the GAA people with sense and reasoning deserve some kind of award for building a bridge that no engineer could possibly manage. After all, we had our proudest sporting moment as a result.

Even tho I wasnt in Croker that day, I will never forget it! Great day 2 b Irish! Ud forget that O'Driscoll wasnt playing in the French game, so the English match was his first rugby match in Croker! V emotional day!

A truly wonderful day to remember forever 🇮🇪❤️💚💪

england 15 times the size of Ireland, half the heart! show the respect,and kick their ass!! national anthem,sung by heroes

Its a shame some on here do not have the same grace as our fans did that day!!! it was a great day and game for us and made me proud to be Irish!!!!

Hammer the "Lard" outya yeah!!!! Lovely

what's the song that starts around 3:30? it sounds like the song in the "where the wild things are" preview...

You are absolutely right. I think rule 42 was and is a sham. Imagine the outrage today if an Irish sport was banned from a field in England or the FAA decided that Irish players were not longer allowed play in the English league. We Irish are sometimes long on memory and short on sense, we want everything, but were not inclined to give anything. We criticize the English but expect them to defend us in a time of need.

we have a great attitude in ireland well most of us we move on and express our pride were still learning were still a young naition but we have great hope

Rugby was NOT the first foreign sport to be played in Croke Park. American Football & Boxing (Muhammad Ali) took place there years ago. Also the GAA was quite happy to have Rock concerts in their "hallowed ground" together with the drug taking that goes with such concerts!

whats the song when the motion is passed?

If 1 moment defined how far Ireland has come since Independence then that day is it.

whats that song as ireland come out of the tunnel against england???

must have been before your time!!. it's The Stunning - Brewing up a Storm

A PERFECT DAY

20 moments that shook irish sport

43-13 :) mmmm I remember that day :)

Can somebody please upload the Sonia O'Sullivan clip from this show! Think it was #11! Thanks!

@rdliwet7 that's a very polite way to put it!!!

come on ireland!!!

I cried at amrhan na bhfiann , the passion was so huge it was unreal , no wonder the scoreline was the way it was , i was so physched meself and woulda dumped tackled vickery if i had of got the chance !

i here really want to see Irish Rugby play in Croke Park again. maybe have Croke park host a series of six nations games once every 4 years

What was the name of the song at the start

What happened to the Rule 42, when American football was played at Croke Park in 1996 and 1997?

Back again 27,03,2019

i will never 4get dat till i die!

@johneharold the ban wasn't regarding foreign sports, just english ones. Hallowed isn't supposed to be interpreted in the religious sense, it's a figure of speech. Drug taking hardly comes into it. Do you suggest banning rock concerts?

@corsellus you're right of course, had started out well but kind of got caught up in it. Irritating and ignorant comments are hard not to respond to. Anyway, was a great day for Rugby and thank fck there was a cultured crowd who showed the right respect and created a fantastic atmosphere.

there in the programs that u can get at the matches

Please watch 3:25 - SENSE PREVAILS IN (all) IRELAND!!

wheres moment number 1?

Without sounding too negative I really do believe the opportunity was missed that day. We ballzed it up in the last 5 minutes when we should have won. Doh!

I was at the previous game V France

Do the ulster boys sing GSTQ when England sing it?

your right we should rise above it all and become a superior nation true irish style

They understood

uploaded it there jimbojimjimbo

i am so proud to be irish roll on tomorrow

@waaeaa regarding my children they're growing up in Europe, I live in Italy where there is far more immigration than in Ireland. What they face can be seen as positive or a problem, depends on how flexible their outlook on life is. I'd like to think they'll be open minded.

Showed confidence to open it, and not disrespect the national anthem like some pubs did (playing Irish music during the English NA). You only ban things you're afraid of.

u got it..recorded it.. put up a few more clips from it there

If you look carefully At 4:54 England tried to do what martin johnson did in 2003 and go to the wrong side of the carpet

there making a new stadium suppose to be built in 2010

arcade fire- wake up

no, number 2

Soccer..its fucking FOOTBALL

Thats clearly Arcade Fire - "Wake Up", not what you're on bout...

Roy keane and the saipan incident with Mick...

This is what makes me soo proud to be Irish! Despite the hurt, despair and pain caused in Croke park many years ago by the British, we were still able to show respect! We have been called scumbags all our lives by the Brits! I think this says it all, we didnt succumb to them, once again we stood tall! xxx

english people take note thats how you move on

@waaeaa good to see you looked it up. Anyway, would really hate to be you, I doubt you enjoy life very much. I along with a great deal of our fellow Irishmen am an emigrant, so I tend to view immigration differently. You see things from just one side and as long as you do that you're never really going to be happy with much. Stop whinging and carry on....oh and by the way, enjoy the Rugby! Great multi-cultural sport that it is! ;)

@waaeaa you need to look at why a minority feels the need to close itself in and try and acquire strength in numbers. When Irish emigrants found themselves constantly judged soley on the fact that they were Irish, they formed Ghettos, South Boston, Shepards Bush, Hells Kitchen etc. They became notorious and dangerous places to go. With time, and mixing, people learned about the Irish, that we're not all alike and they opened their minds. Everything starts small, even hope, do the research

It is a very fine stadium. It's time to move on a little, is it not?

Forgive me, but as an American, this is all so confusing to me so I'm trying to learn about these wonderful countries history and the meaning behind moments like these. But why were the ppl who owned Croke park against Rugby and soccer being played there? If those two sports aren't played, what do they do there besides u2 concerts?

IRELAND r no.1

That was the door that started to open il never forget what has been and gone

I think if you actually paid attention to this video maybe you'd get your facts right, this was 6 nations 2007, Ireland thrashed England on the day 43 - 13 :)

i'd just like to point out that crokers capacity is 85,000

We listened respectfully to their national anthem, they listened respectfully to our national anthem, and then we hammered the living shit out of them.

yeah the world just loves ye england,and us irish are devastated that u dont like uslmao

If the truth be known, I dont think its a case of the English feeling superior to the Irish, but the Irish feeling inferior to the English. And for the life of me, I never understood that. When the fiasco of the Italian presidency of the European Union was coming to an end, it was English newspapers, with a huge sigh of relief that said Europe was now in a safe pair of hands (referring to the Irish) Maybe our biggest battle is yet to be won, that of our own inferiority complex.

@waaeaa crime is a problem, it's a part of human nature and is generally a result of poverty and frustration. Of course some of the points you make are valid. You seem to be confused as to what a bigot is but lets not get into that for now. I personally don't care what colour a person is as long as they behave in a rational manner.

that doesn't sound anything like tommy teirnan

It's not realy the irish it's the GAA loads of people are leaving the GAA to play other sports that they will get paid to play.

the day 6 counties were finally forgotten

@waaeaa "Irish who go there now do not form such gangs and haven't since those days."...are you absolutley sure? What are you basing this on? A little misguided I would say. My brother in law is ex DEA, right up there with the blacks and colombians you have the Italians and Irish. You could also look at the corruption in our government over the years...or is that not crime for you? It's what's contributing to the state of affairs at the moment in Ireland

@waaeaa sidestepped what issue? The inexistant communist regime in Arabia? Come on, you haven't really made any valid points. You take one sided statistics and run with it. Races have been mixing the world over since time began and that if we look at the percentages the Irish population has one of the highest emigration rates of any country over the last 50yrs. As an Irishman, each to his own sounds quite silly. As to pointing out that you seem to be whinging, not exactly an attack now is it?

Every 1 hates da english!!

Rule 42 is SHITE!! In the 90's Chicago Bears and Pitsburgh steelers played there and so did a collage american football match

762SLR762, Armitage should have been sent off. O'Driscoll ran into him because he cut off the shortest route to th ball. That's illegal. Care was sent off cos he tackled marcus horan in a ruck whenhe was standing up with his back turned to Care. It was a disgrace. The 2 times ye've played in Croke Park ye've made an absolute disgrace of yourselves. Whereas we welcomed ye into a ground where the British army murdered 12 people and wounded 60. So in terms of maturity, Ireland is superior.

thats seriously scary logic, they had no right to be there in the first place.

@waaeaaalso the trends in other European countries aren't exactly fact based are they? You got Italy completely wrong for one. What is your solution? All Irish people in the world come back to Ireland? No inter breeding? Where does that leave my family? Does that mean that my wife shouldn't be allowed to move to Ireland if she so pleases? It's ridiculous, it begs insult as an argument. I feel like I'm arguing with a 2yr old, not an attack Waaeaa, but as you say yourself, each to his own(opinion)

That was a holy disgrace what about the people that the black and tans killed in them grounds

Sorry you will have to do better than that, Hurling is on a different planet to cricket its all Instincts thats why you only can learn it from an early age.Anyone that sees it is totally captivated by it. Hurling is also oldest field game over 3k years. Gaa the governing body is something you will not find the like anywhere. Even the Yanks can stand by and say we are unique, never has a country so small has such an influence for the right reasons, your country opposite.

sell outs! Is there nothing sacred anymore?

Wonder how many more truths and acts f where lost in your British Empire. "It means football's origins date back 2,300 years to when Linzi was the capital of the ancient Qi kingdom. FIFA once announced China would be officially recognized as the birthplace of football. "

You really are slow, read back what you just said. You just stated my point for me!!!!. We have a sport here that very few people can play unless you grow up in it . Any fool can pick up a bat and throw a ball, just proved my point. So please state one thing that is totally unique to your country!!!, that cant be found anywhere else.

lol how many times have ye 2??????????. For 40m the mighty England lol. Get over yourself. Nearly 1/4 of this country plays OUR national games, we invented field sports.How many times in recent competition did England beat us in Football??? or rugby , You think rugby is tough try Hurling, 80k ppl watching amateurs play at a professional level for pride and honour. i see you like cricket haha funny stuff, shows the difference and whats wrong with your culture.

One we gave up more than we got, we lost our fishing industry, there is more oil in this country then in the UK. This country had nearly full employment for a long time. Listen ur a muppet and i'm only laughing at you. I work for an IT company that deals with UK and Irish customers, English people can not find out a thing by themselves,i have yet to deal with an Irish customer that hasnt tired to research it first. Be funny if it wasnt so sad!!!!.