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2006 was the year of the Love Ulster riot, when a planned loyalist march down O Connell Street led to chaos and street fighting in Dublin city centre.
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Watch: RTÉ News report on riots in Dublin on 25 February 2006 (via RTÉ Archives)
Although Irish soccer manager Steve Staunton struggled in his new role, it was also a year of sporting success: Cork sprinter Derval O Rourke won gold at the World Indoor Championships, Katie Taylor won World and European boxing titles and Bernard Dunne took the European Super bantamweight title.
The Greatest Race You’ve Never Heard Of
By Jonathan Gault
February 1, 2015
(Editor’s note: Sunday, February 1, 2015, marks the 25th anniversary of one of the greatest race finishes in track and field history – the final of the 1990 Commonwealth Games 5000. We became aware of the race while reading this messageboard thread last year: Best come from behind wins ever – and decided to the research necessary to tell the story of the epic race).
As the 14 finalists toed the line on February 1, 1990, for the final of the men’s 5,000 meters at the Commonwealth Games, there was no indication that the fans in Auckland’s Mount Smart Stadium were about to witness one of the most exciting races of all time. A Kenyan sweep seemed the most likely outcome: Kenyan
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Jessica Ennis continued her build-up towards Olympic glory (Owen Humphreys/PA)
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Jessica Ennis won gold in the pentathlon at the World Indoor Championships in Doha on this day in 2010.
Ennis defied a foot injury to become the first British athlete to win the title following Kelly Sotherton’s silver medal two years previously.
Ennis said: “The injury was always at the back of my mind and I was always a little bit worried thinking about it.
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