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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“For generations, a wide range of shooting in Northern Ireland has provided all sections of the population with a pastime which ... has occupied a great deal of leisure time. Unlike many other countries, the outstanding characteristic of the sport has been that it was not confined to any one class.”
—Northern Irish Tourist Board. quoted in New Statesman (London, Aug. 29, 1969)
““Justice” was done, and the President of the Immortals, in Æschylean phrase, had ended his sport with Tess. And the d’Urberville knights and dames slept on in their tombs unknowing. The two speechless gazers bent themselves down to the earth, as if in prayer, and remained thus a long time, absolutely motionless: the flag continued to wave silently. As soon as they had strength they arose, joined hands again, and went on.
The End”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)
“How long, then, Catiline, while you abuse our patience? How long is this madness of yours to make sport of us?”
—Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)