Sport
- Carroll's Irish Open is won by Hubert Green (USA).
- The Republic of Ireland national football team fail to qualify for the 1978 FIFA World Cup in Argentina.
- In September Cork Hurlers complete the '3 in a row' by beating Wexford in the All-Ireland senior hurling final).
- Kerry footballers start on their road to '4 in a row' by beating Dublin in the All-Ireland senior football final).
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Famous quotes containing the word sport:
“The sport of digging the bait is nearly equal to that of catching the fish, when one’s appetite is not too keen.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“What sport shall we devise here in this garden
To drive away the heavy thought of care?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Every American travelling in England gets his own individual sport out of the toy passenger and freight trains and the tiny locomotives, with their faint, indignant, tiny whistle. Especially in western England one wonders how the business of a nation can possibly be carried on by means so insufficient.”
—Willa Cather (1876–1947)