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)
“Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting.
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—George Orwell (1903–1950)
“I wish glib and indiscriminate critics of industrialists had some conception of the problems that have to be met by factory management.... General condemnation of employers is a favorite indoor sport of the uninformed intelligentsia who assume the role of lance- bearers for labor.”
—Mary Barnett Gilson (1877–?)