Last month Póg Mo Goal commissioned international and Irish designers to produce a series of match-day posters for the Republic of Ireland’s three group games in France for OFFSIDE a fringe event of the design conference OFFSET and now here are all the amazing match-day posters.
With the European Championship in France approaching ever faster, Adam Murphy takes a look back at one of the best individual performances seen in a green shirt in recent times. It didn’t come in a major tournament, however, rather a cold September evening in Moscow in the Euro 2012 qualifiers.
The countdown is on to Euro 2016. We look back at the Republic of Ireland’s draw with USSR in 1988, considered among our best ever displays and one man in green had an inside line on the opposition. Tony Galvin studied Russian at university and shocked the Soviets by conversing with them in the warm-up before his teammates shocked them on the pitch in a game we should have won against the eventual finalists.