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Sport in Northern Ireland plays an important role in the lives of many Northern Irish people. Most sports are organised on an all-Ireland basis, for example rugby union, Gaelic games, basketball, rugby league, hockey, and cricket, whereas others, like association football and netball are organised on a separate basis for Northern Ireland. [1]
Alan Green (born 25 June 1952) is a Northern Irish former sports commentator, mainly on football but also on golf, rowing and the Olympic Games. [1] Green was one of BBC Radio 5 Live 's most senior football commentators and was a winner of a Sony Radio Academy Award for Sports Broadcaster of the Year. [2] He is noted for his forthright style of ...
BBC Northern Ireland ( Irish: BBC Thuaisceart Éireann; Ulster-Scots: BBC Norlin Airlan) is a division of the BBC and the main public broadcaster in Northern Ireland. It is widely available across both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland . BBC Northern Ireland is one of the four BBC national regions, together with the BBC English ...
The Northern Ireland men's national football team ( Irish: Foireann peile náisiúnta Thuaisceart Éireann) represents Northern Ireland in international association football. From 1882 to 1950, all of Ireland was represented by a single side, the Ireland national football team, organised by the Irish Football Association (IFA).
The NIFL Premiership, known as the Sports Direct Premiership for sponsorship purposes, [2] and Irish Premiership colloquially, [3] [4] is a professional association football league which operates as the highest division of the Northern Ireland Football League – the national league in Northern Ireland. The NIFL Premiership was established as ...
Ireland (1930) Northern Ireland competed at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England between 28 July and 8 August 2022. [1] It was the twentieth Games participation for Northern Ireland. Lawn bowler Martin McHugh and boxer Michaela Walsh were the delegation's flagbearers during the opening ceremony. [2]
Jackie FullertonMBE. John Alexander Fullerton, [1] MBE [2] (born 22 May 1943 in Ballymena [1]) is a Northern Irish television presenter and journalist, who was a reporter and football commentator for BBC Northern Ireland until he retired in 2016. However, he made a return in 2020 to commentate on Ballymena United matches for their live ...
The 2021–22 Northern Ireland Football League Cup (known as the BetMcLean League Cup for sponsorship purposes) [1] was the 35th edition of Northern Ireland 's football knock-out cup competition for national league clubs, and the seventh edition of the competition as the Northern Ireland Football League Cup. The competition was contested by the ...