Well, there's a game that will last long in the list of great Irish sporting moments, and indeed Irish history generally with God Save The Queen being played in Croke Park.
Indeed. Though I really get understand all the fuss, It wasn't like the English Rugby team were going to charge into Croke Park armed with Machine Guns and fire randomly into the air?
That reminds me of the text message doing the rounds in the last few days, about how the Irish team would have two changes from the last outing in Croke Park, O'Driscoll and Stringer, but that the English side would be radically different from their last visit, having to make do without armoured cars and machine guns. (Though based on the performance they may have needed such things to win today.)
Yeah, in fairness, there was never much chance of the English team or fans doing anything silly. (Though had something happened along the lines of a couple of years ago with them standing on the wrong side and refusing to move, who knows what could've happened.) There was though, a not inconceivable chance that there may have been an element of disrespectfullness when the English anthem was played. Thankfully, this didn't happen. (The traditional rugby going crowd being, on the whole, quite different from the traditional GAA crowd, helped in this regard.)
