A-Z of moments that made you proud to be YBIG fan

First foreign team to beat them in England and not the Hungarians as they'd have you believe

Despite being all over the world following the Irish team including World Cups,post game piss up after Germany game in Chiba and Euros and home matches etc the moment that made me most proud was watching the game away to Russia in 2011 when Richard Dunne was at his best.

I wasnt even at the game but sitting in my living room whilst feeding/holding my new born son.

As i said in another post i wanted to explain to him and show him, even tho he didnt know what was going on, why his dad goes all over the world supporting the Irish team and what it was all about and why it matters.I wanted him to see the passion and dedication of the fans,the spirit of the players. First time father.Two of us crying like babies after it.A magical moment.

If we're talking on the field....

Shane Long, Germany. A brilliant moment, a brilliant goal. Can't stop watching it, the crowds reaction and thinking back to full-time, the sheer emotion of it. Still makes the hairs on my neck stand up

It was also the greatest two fingers you could show to any Rugby snob or barstooler with no interest in the national team who have slated the Senior Team and those who follow them across the World. 

Richard Dunne in Russia is a worthy mention too

Numerous late goals in our last campaign might not feature highly for some but it revived our never say die attitude amongst the masses once more. And we made those points count in the end!

I'm going to go with two. My earliest memory of a famous Ireland victory was watching on TV when Ireland beat the mighty USSR in 1974 with Don Givens scoring a hat trick and Liam Brady making his debut. Some of the crowd were up on top of the roof in Dalymount.

1/ Roy keane performance vs Holland at home and Jason Mc goal vs Holland
2/Liam Brady's silky goal vs Brazil
3/David O'Leary penalty vs Romania
4/Tony Galvin's mazy run that ended up in houghton's goal vs England 88
5/Ireland's performance vs france in wc qualifiers in a 3/2 win `
6/Any Aldo performance in the green shirt
7/Any Mark Lawrenson and kevin Moran's performances  as partnership in the green shirt
8/Ronnie Whelan's scissor beauty
9/PAUL MC GRATH
10/IRELAND TEAM'S PERFORMANCE VS SPAIN  AT WC 2002
11/The very best right forward of his time playing for IRELAND ..... Steven Heighway

The ones that made me proudest have all been said and explained here; Shane Long v the Germans, McAteer, Keano at the death in Ibaraki, Duffer in the second round, Dunne in Moscow... One that made me fiercely proud from the last campaign: McClean's almighty (and fair!) reducer on Milik, and the absolute almighty roar that went up after. Just one of those great moments. the roof came off the f**king place 

Edited by OnTheOneRoad - 18 Apr 2016 at 6:33pm

To me its gotta be 1988, been in UK then for 2 years and listening to the patronising garbage about we along to make up numbers and it was England's to win.

Studying desperately for exams and didn't see the game as no working TV in common area in house and one guy with a TV deliberately decided no football........................

Scoring and holding on was brilliant.
What rubbed it further for England fans was BBC decided the following Satuday that it was showing Ireland v Holland rather than the England game as both at same time.
Work was fun and got my exams :)

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Japan was wonderful as we were 1st game in Japan for World cup, Robbie's goal was out of this world given who against.
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France 2004 when French National Anthem was sung by everybody was hair on back of neck standing up moment, got free tickets to that game as guy who got me tickets and was with me at game refused to accept payment because way we as fans had behaved.
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Bringing my lad to Brazil game in London when full shirt was down to his feet and having fans demand a picture with him because he was so sweet and good natured.

He was a passenger with his mum during our 2 friendlys in London in 2004.

International: aside from the many great moments, just being on the Kop in 1995 aged 11 against the Dutch was a special moment. There was a clear sense before the game that we were a spent force so it was a foregone conclusion in many ways against mostly an Ajax side that had just won the Champions League that year. Of course, we went in hope but was a fair result, Very moving as a kid to see YNWA sung to Charlton by both Dutch and Irish fans after the game and a good proportion of the Irish fans on the kop singing Aida, the usual Dutch chant at the time, as the Dutch players did their lap of honour.

Niall Quinn sliding in against Van Breuklen in Palermo was the moment I fell in love, remember my old man shaking me up and down in front of the fireplace telling me that my lucky Ireland hat had done it (on it's debut mind!) 

Domestically, torn between a few moments but #1:

Pats beating Kilkenny 2-1 in Buckley Park to win the league with about 15 mins to go after Shels threw it away in Dundalk. The FAI had the league trophy sent up to Dundalk so Gormley and Ozo lifting some Kilkenny District League trophy instead on the night  Never experienced celebrations like it when the goal went in though, very special

Tony Sheridan's wonder strike in Landsdowne to deny Pats the FAI cup around 95 or 96, lovely strike by any standards

Seeing lads throwing a battered sausage at Tomas Ravelli a few months after Sweden reached the semis of USA 94 when IFK Gotenburg played a LOI 11 in Tolka, in fairness he took it in good spirits 

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