Welcome to the Extra.ie Irish sporting moments of the decade survey. We want your opinion on what were the biggest, best and more important events of the past ten years in Irish sport?

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* 5. What province do you live in?

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* 7. What were the Irish sporting moments of the decade? (Select up to 3 from the below options)

2010: Derval O’Rourke wins European silver in the 100m hurdles at the European Championships

2011: Ireland shock the cricket world by beating England at only their second Cricket World Cup

2012: Katie Taylor makes history and wins gold at London 2012

2012: Leinster hammer Ulster to win their third Heineken Cup in four years

2013: Ireland women’s team win first-ever Grand Slam and become first Irish team to beat New Zealand

2013: Clare win first hurling title in 20 years after two incredible finals against Cork

2014: Rory McIlroy wins two Majors in the same year

2014: Andy Lee wins WBO middleweight title; first person from a traveller background to win a world title

2015: Willie Mullins sets a new Cheltenham record by training 8 winners

2015: Ireland stun world champions Germany with a 1-0 win in Dublin

2016: Robbie Brady’s incredible header sees Ireland beat Italy at Euro2016

2016: The O’Donovan brothers take silver medal in rowing at Rio 2016

2016: Ireland finally beat the All Blacks for the first time ever in Chicago

2016: Connacht turn Irish rugby on its head by winning their first-ever Pro12 title

2017: Galway break Waterford’s heart and win their first hurling title since 1988

2018: Limerick win their first All-Ireland hurling title in over 30 years

2018: Ireland’s women’s hockey team come from nowhere to reach World Cup final

2018: Joe Schmidt guides Ireland to an incredibly dominant Grand Slam win

2019: Dublin complete the historic ‘Drive for Five’

2019: Shane Lowry wins The British Open on Irish soil

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* 8. Who were the Irish sporting heroes of the decade? (Select up to 3 from the below options)

Niamh Briggs – Top try scorer as Ireland won the 2013 and 2015 Six Nations

Stephen Cluxton – Crucial member of the Dublin team that won six All-Ireland titles during the decade

Joe Canning – Hurling’s star man inspired Galway to an All-Ireland title

Andy Lee – Won the WBO middleweight title in 2014, and was the first world champion with a travelling background

Shane Lowry – Became the first Irishman to win a Major on home soil

Conor McGregor – The superstar is the first ever Irish UFC champion and the first ever ‘champ champ’

Ayeisha McFerran – The hockey goalie who was crucial to Ireland reaching a World Cup final and qualifying for the 2020 Olympics

Rory McIlroy – The golf superstar won an incredible four Majors this decade

Gary & Paul O’Donovan – The two men put Irish rowing on the world map by winning Olympic silver medals and world champions

Johnny Sexton – Won three European Cups with Leinster, and scored ‘Le Drop’ to help Ireland win the 2018 Grand Slam

Katie Taylor – The 2012 Olympic gold medallist and current world undisputed lightweight champion and Jr Welterweight champion

Ruby Walsh – Rider of 59 Cheltenham Festivals winners who retired earlier this year

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* 9. What was the best All-Ireland final of the decade? (Select 1 from the below options)

2010 Hurling Final: Kilkenny 1-18 Tipperary 4-17

2012 Football Final: Donegal 2-11 Mayo 0-13

2013 Hurling Final: Clare 5-16 Cork 3-16

2014 Hurling Final (drawn): Kilkenny 3-22 Tipperary 1-28

2016 Football Final: Dublin 1-15 Mayo 1-14

2019 Football Final (drawn): Dublin 1-16 Kerry 1-16

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* 10. What was the biggest Irish sporting shock of the decade? (Select 1 from the below options)

2010: Graeme McDowell coming from nowhere to win the 2010 US Open

2010: Down knocking out Kerry and then reaching an improbable All-Ireland final

2015: Ireland beating world champions Germany in Dublin just two years after losing to them 6-1

2016: Katie Taylor losing to Mira Potkonen in the quarter-finals at Rio 2016

2018: Ireland knocking out Spain and reaching the Women’s Hockey World Cup final

2018: The ‘Half-Parish’ Mullinalaghta St. Columba's winning the Leinster club football title

2019: Ireland losing 12-19 to Japan in the Rugby World Cup

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* 11. What were the lowest Irish sporting moments of the decade? (Select up to 3 from the below options)

2010: Meath ‘ghost goal’ at the end of the Leinster football final breaks Louth’s hearts

2012: Ireland are hammered three times at Euro 2012, finishing with a 4-0 defeat to Spain

2013: A miserable Six Nations campaign under Declan Kidney ends with a defeat to Italy

2016: Olympic ticket scandal in Rio sees OCI president Pat Hickey arrested in Rio

2016: Michael O’Reilly disqualified from Rio 2016 for failing a drugs test

2016: Katie Taylor’s hopes of back-to-back gold medals ended by shock quarter-final loss

2016: Michael Conlon accuses Olympic judges of cheating after his defeat in Rio

2017: Ireland finish seventh in a poor campaign in the Women’s Rugby World Cup hosted on Irish soil

2017: Ireland’s World Cup hopes end with a heart-breaking 5-1 defeat to Denmark

2019: FAI’s plunged into crisis after John Delaney’s ‘bridging’ loan is revealed

2019: Rory McIlroy’s first round at The Open sees him card an 8 on the first hole and a 7 on the last

2019: A total hammering by the All Blacks ends Ireland’s 2019 World Cup campaign

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* 12. Who were the Irish coaches of the decade? (Select up to 3 from the below options)

Mick Bohan – Won three successive All-Ireland ladies football titles with Dublin

Brian Cody – Added four more All-Ireland titles with Kilkenny to his CV

Leo Cullen & Stuart Lancaster – The Leinster coaching team won two Pro14 titles and cruised to a Champions Cup victory in 2018

Philip Doyle – Won an historic first-ever Six Nations title with Ireland and guided them to a win over the Black Ferns

Jim Gavin – Successfully completed the Drive for Five with Dublin, as they won five successive All-Ireland titles

Stephen Kenny – Won five league titles with Dundalk and brought them to the 2016 Europa League group stages

John Kiely – Delivered the first All-Ireland title to Limerick in 45 years in 2018

Jim McGuinness – Brought the Sam Maguire back to Donegal in 2012 and nearly won it again in 2014

Martin O’Neill – Brought Ireland to Euro 2016 where they got to the last 16 after beating Italy

Joe Schmidt – Won two Heineken Cups with Leinster before winning three Six Nations – one of which was a Grand Slam – with Ireland

Graham Shaw - Oversaw Ireland’s shock run to the 2018 Hockey World Cup final

Billy Walsh – Coached the Irish boxing team to their historic medal haul in 2012

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* 13. Who were the Irish teams of the decade? (Select up to 3 from the below options)

2010 Kilkenny team, who were came just short of winning the first-ever ‘Drive for Five’

2012 London Olympics boxing team, who won four medals including one silver and a gold

2012 Leinster team, who won their third Heineken Cup in four years by hammering Ulster

2013 Ireland women’s rugby team, who won a Grand Slam and beat New Zealand at that year’s World Cup

2016 Dundalk team, who won the Premier Division and reached the Europa League group stage

2016 Cork ladies football team, won who six All-Ireland titles in a row between 2011 and 2016

Euro 2016 Ireland team, who beat Italy and became the first Irish team to take a lead in a knockout tournament match

2018 Irish rugby team, who won a Grand Slam, won a tour in South Africa, and beat the All Blacks on home soil

2018 Limerick hurling team, who ended their county’s 40-year wait to win the Liam McCarthy

2018-19 Ireland women’s hockey team, who won silver at the 2018 World Cup and then qualified for Tokyo 2020

2019 Dublin football team, who won five successive All-Ireland titles

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