I’ve also put together some photos to illustrate the answers!

Click more… to see who’s who.

Answers:

1. Ronnie Whelan (v. USSR 1988)
2. Jason McAteer (v. Netherlands, 2001)
3. Wim Keift (Netherlands, 1988)

A great goal, an important goal and a tragic fluke.

Last week, in the buildup to the Irish football team’s two big games against Bulgaria and Italy, they ran a competition for a trip for two to the away game in Bari on Wednesday night, with flights and accommodation thrown in.

Entry was simple. Each night, from Monday to Thursday, they played the same three clips, back-to-back. All one had to do was email in the names of the players who scored immediately after the commentary was cut off.  Sort of like a ‘What happened next’ round.

Click more… to have a listen for yourself.

Audio clip:

They’re not very hard, if you’re a fan of the Irish football team.  All three goals were (shall we say) significant in the history of Irish football.

Update: see the answers here.

1. Oliver Gough (Wexford ’55 and Kilkenny ’63)
2. Joe McNally (1982 and ’83)
3. Bobby Beggs (Galway ’38 and Dublin ’42) and Caleb Crone (Dublin ’41 and Cork ’45)*
4. Tony Davis and Martin O’Doherty (both Cork)*
5. Limerick (1921)
6. William ‘Squires’ Gannon (Kildare)
7. Pat O’Neill
8. Rome
9. Christy Ring, Jack Lynch and Dan O’Keeffe**
10. Antrim (1911)
11. Con Murphy
12. Offaly (1982)

If you’d like to hear how the final show went, with eight people taking part in an on-air quiz, you can check out the audio of the show here.

* Problems arose here with the wording of the questions.  If you notice on my original post, I had actually spotted this! Mind you, so did Mícheál but someone messed up subsequently when putting the questions on the website.

** Bit of a trick question this one.  Dan O’Keeffe is on the Team of the Millenium as a Kerry player but he was born in Cork.

This is basically the gaelic games equivalent of the Golden Ticket from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and will get you into any GAA game of your choice, anywhere in the country, throughout 2009.  This includes big games in Croke Park and you can even use it more than once a day!  That’s if your transport capabilities are up to the task, admittedly.  Still, it’s a great prize.

Anyways, you’ve probably guessed that I wouldn’t be mentioning it here if a quiz wasn’t involved and you’d be right.  They’re running a quiz all this week to find a suitable person to bestow this prize on.

Each night from Monday to Wednesday, a celebrity quizmaster will ask three questions.  Judging by the standard of Monday’s questions (asked by Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh), this could be one of the hardest quizzes we’ll come across here on the blog.

For the sake of completeness I’d going to reproduce the questions here.  That said, one could always just go straight to the source too.  I’ll give the answers the usual new blog post when they’re made known.

Night 1 (Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh):

1. Name the last player who won senior All-Ireland hurling medals with two different counties?
2. Who was the Dublin footballer that won an All-Ireland minor medal one year and a senior one the following year?
3. Who was the player who won Railway Cup football medals with two provinces and All-Ireland senior medals with counties in those provinces? (This isn’t exactly what’s on the RTÉ site but it’s how the question was clarified on air by Mícheál)
4. Who was the only player in the history of the GAA to have won All-Ireland medals at minor, under-21, junior and senior intercounty levels and at club level in football? (Again not exactly what’s on the site but he did say it’s a football question)

Night 2 (Seán Óg Ó Ceallacháin):

5. What county was the first to receive the Liam McCarthy cup?
6. Who was the first man to receive the Sam Maguire cup?
7. Name the Rhodesia-born player who won senior All Ireland football medals in 1976 and 1977?
8. An inter-provincial Railway Cup final (in hurling) was played outside the country for the first time in 2003. Where was it played?

Night 3 (Jimmy Magee):

9. Name three Cork men, each selected on a Team of the Millennium, who between them won 21 All-Ireland senior medals?
10. Which of the Ulster counties was the first to play in an All-Ireland senior final?
11. Which future president of the GAA, in a period of nine years, was involved in seven All-Ireland senior finals, winning four and refereeing two?
12. Which county won the Sam Maguire cup with five sets of brothers?

There ye go.  I’ll post up the answers tomorrow evening, when they’re announced.

If you’d like to enter the competition yourself you’ve got til sometime* on January 29 to email your answers to: drivetimesport@rte.ie.

* They’re a bit vague on the website.  All it really says is that four finalists will be announced on Thursday evening’s show.  Obviously, folks will have had to have entered by then!  That’s all I can tell ye…

Update: Answers are here…