What are the most iconic photos in Irish sporting history?

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1. https://preview.redd.it/bfkuszogwswc1.jpeg?width=250&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c026cf9cfeae92ae5c3d718b91636659be8a83fe

2. Quite a few actually

   [Robbie Brady](https://i.redd.it/lnofuldrks671.jpg)

   [Italia 90 squad meeting the pope](https://i2-prod.irishmirror.ie/incoming/article21951698.ece/ALTERNATES/s615/0_inpho_00143028.jpg)

   [Donncha O’Callaghan](https://focus.independent.ie/thumbor/MYuX501q6JVsW6YkAxxVWMKFM4c=/0x15:885×503/550×550/prod-mh-ireland/27940744-bced-11ed-b8d3-0210609a3fe2.jpg)

   [Roy Keane and Mick McCarthy handshake](https://www.thetimes.co.uk/imageserver/image/%2Fmethode%2Ftimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2F4ca6dabc-ef5f-11e8-8888-d940336e3709.jpg?crop=1873%2C1054%2C206%2C314&resize=360)

3. [Hurl bent over face](https://i.imgur.com/fDj0XMh.jpeg)

   [Junior B hurling](https://deiseach.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/hurlfatboyhurl.jpg)

   [Any one of Drico’s shite haircuts](https://www.thesun.ie/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2019/06/Brian.jpg?w=620)

4. The one of Packie Bonner saving Timofte’s penalty

5. [Euro 2012 – NSFW](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FSt-BKJWQAA2NOi.jpg:large)

6. That one of the GAA player with his meat and two veg hanging out.

7. https://preview.redd.it/c6gbkgud3twc1.jpeg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f5fe0c06c278ab41d594156e5d521b490a879ffb

8. For all the wrong reasons

   https://preview.redd.it/7qfurrxh4twc1.jpeg?width=615&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1f02758105b5f924489bd65e00803f691afda3ed

9. Always loved this

   https://preview.redd.it/xph22r535twc1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4a6b6b3499b2bae94405d7c1b07bd4388e9a1607

10. my mind just said out loud – “We need to put em under pressure” in a Geordie accent….

11. https://preview.redd.it/9yc9smek6twc1.jpeg?width=1873&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=febd86575383fd5abbb50f658a9a1d495ffcf4b5

    Lets not forget what happened in Saipan Korea…

12. https://preview.redd.it/t2nf2el37twc1.jpeg?width=320&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cf93700f6672b08ff9abce6eea7ea9c443da6bcb

13. This one always come to mind[John Aldridge loses it.](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimHyv0ewzql51Y_n9HtEE56XgR8e3vDSY0pLSgtR8iJ9gREalZlNmlu9SqEsFL8KaCcaIRomwqZ0ex1bQ_HtEFqxfFVlz8fvRc9Xwv7dPcM6fbIM7b-jDQzaNtOP8Z1cSQy0ChzLO06Upl/s1600/Aldo4.jpg)

14. https://preview.redd.it/ogmnfqyfctwc1.jpeg?width=726&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6477e83d2edd6ee6a448cd29845b47b60d88121c

    Robbie Henshaw try that sealed the win against the All Blacks in Chicago

15. https://preview.redd.it/om6uab03dtwc1.jpeg?width=398&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6db645813df355f5034e4cc1d942a3a01ad0d7bd

16. https://preview.redd.it/m10dvg4gdtwc1.jpeg?width=466&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=42d0bd142b32f4c4b28a8743fe2da51700672388

17. One tackle changed a whole game and set us on the way to a famous victory

    https://preview.redd.it/yu8q2p3qdtwc1.jpeg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=edfd7f924c9f1a371efdd1845f9a114019ee52f7

18. https://preview.redd.it/f9p22b1retwc1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fddce02ccdd6caf466a793e8d0743afc4d552137

    REACHING FOR GLORY Ireland v England at Croke Park (2007) Cyril Byrne

19. Sean Kelly, 84 Paris Roubaix win.[Sean](https://images.app.goo.gl/pa2DEXvSpNcAGx8s5)

20. Shane Duffy choking the rapist

    https://www.thesun.ie/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/11/e5d147c8-db60-406e-9272-63666b623969.jpg?strip=all&w=743

21. Packie Bonner saving the peno.

22. https://preview.redd.it/wh98rcorltwc1.jpeg?width=930&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=98049b86bfa1ba27809955045541f8488fc066ce

    Whether you like him or not…

23. Surely “A nation holds its breath” is the most iconic

    https://preview.redd.it/09m6gla9ntwc1.jpeg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0da3a6f8a2a8ddf588f2a0565fd9b8a5fa94e7a8

24. 1. Stephen Roche roided out of his mind crossing the line.
    2. Eamon Coughlan raising hand.
    3. Michelle Smith’s 4 medal pic.
    4. Liam Brady walking off final game (great photo from rear).

25. [Great photo of Joe Canning putting Galway into the 2017 AI Hurling final.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DNar6BAX4AE8nHm.jpg:large)

26. https://preview.redd.it/7bv4ht9ottwc1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c64d2d3daaea29887d4a1f51a2215596f5e72dc3

    Pains me as a Munster fan but this was a big watershed moment when Leinster moved into the driving seat as strongest team and never let it go.

27. https://preview.redd.it/78rrw683vtwc1.jpeg?width=774&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6834b18d702a9ac0c28e2a628a90d28eaf4877a6

28. https://preview.redd.it/2y5yas7lvtwc1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=406a1bda1eb5ac60a1bb564ad88d01612a15c231

    Everyday for weeks! 😂

29. [<image>](https://d1ur8kxvk6cuvz.cloudfront.net/uploads/2018/06/13114834/090681.jpg)

30. https://preview.redd.it/uj5le36s0uwc1.jpeg?width=696&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c3dede391a069759510ef4b8478dd647430dc450

31. As a Dub:

    https://preview.redd.it/nlf4v6ap0uwc1.png?width=960&format=png&auto=webp&s=e6eaf93e7db561ecc186dfea04fc6aa05dd33740

    It helps that this was almost exactly the view I had of the kick, in the lower Cusack five rows from the front.

32. Packie Bonner penalty save in Italia 90 is probably THE most iconic photo in irish sport ever.

33. https://preview.redd.it/gqgryz9c5uwc1.jpeg?width=620&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f6870868c43b8bcd2fccf4360717d7e483468ebb

34. https://preview.redd.it/dl6hligj5uwc1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6f3f13bb29a9a4627f9f9bb845fa2d8c6b763928

35. https://preview.redd.it/1qgjdb5zfuwc1.jpeg?width=468&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4ac005dbb82d7fc329941f2385729473de26c640

36. https://preview.redd.it/dzf86masbvwc1.jpeg?width=474&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=eed9952faab5c08f55753912cc79b2f555af54d8

37. The one of Katie Taylor in the Airport with Shane Ross creepily photobombing 

38. Packie Bonner, everybody knows the photo

39. Having looked through the thread OP, you actually picked the best.

40. https://preview.redd.it/e0yx79klgwwc1.jpeg?width=4587&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bd395e903789bab47824238ed68f5ba2fee8ccef

    Love him or hate him this has to be up there

41. [Balls of steel](https://www.thesun.ie/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2018/11/haka1.jpg?crop=28px%2C0px%2C515px%2C343px&resize=620%2C413)

    I love that the New Zealanders appreciated it, saw it as a great challenge. Shame they lost!

42. https://preview.redd.it/stkkozzxtwwc1.jpeg?width=5942&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c5932cb4326e4a27b6ed14e66f1bff73d50f37c7

43. https://preview.redd.it/ibfvgz3ruwwc1.jpeg?width=1440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9dcaa3459ffe792225d1db15e1457407c118b0a5

    The Foley “8”