1998 International Rules Series

{{Infobox football match

| title = 1998 International Rules Series

| image =

| event = International Rules Series

| team1 = Ireland

| team1association = {{flagicon|Ireland|size=50px}}

| team1score = 128

| team2 = Australia

| team2association = {{flagicon|Australia|size=50px}}

| team2score = 118

| details = Ireland win series 128–118 on aggregate

| firstleg = First test

| team1score1 = 61

| team2score1 = 62

| details1 =

| date1 = 11 October 1998

| stadium1 = Croke Park, Dublin

| city1 = County Dublin

| man_of_the_match1a =

| man_of_the_match1atitle =

| man_of_the_match1b =

| man_of_the_match1btitle =

| referee1 = Mick Curley{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-football/curley-to-join-referee-exodus-25998104.html|title=Curley to join referee exodus|work=Irish Independent|first=Colm|last=Keys|date=4 February 2005}} (Ireland)
Andrew Coates (Australia)

| attendance1 = 22,900

| weather1 =

| secondleg = Second test

| team1score2 = 67

| team2score2 = 56

| details2 =

| date2 = 18 October 1998

| stadium2 = Croke Park, Dublin

| city2 = County Dublin

| man_of_the_match2a =

| man_of_the_match2atitle =

| man_of_the_match2b =

| man_of_the_match2btitle =

| referee2 = Mick Curley (Ireland)
Andrew Coates (Australia)

| attendance2 = 35,221

| weather2 =

| television = N2 (Ireland)
Seven Network (Australia)

| previous = 1990

| next = 1999

}}

The 1998 International Rules Series was the fifth annual series between Gaelic footballers from the Gaelic Athletic Association and Australian rules footballers from the Australian Football League and the first since it was cancelled in 1990. It was part of a four-year agreement.{{cite web|url=http://www.tariksport.com/intrules.shtml|title=Tarik's International Rules Football|accessdate=6 April 2008|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080322211229/http://www.tariksport.com/intrules.shtml|archivedate=22 March 2008|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}} Ireland and Australia both won a game however Ireland won the overall series by 10 points in aggregate.{{cite web|url= http://internationalrules.gaa.ie/1998.html|title= International Rules – Series 5 – 1998 – Ireland|accessdate= 6 April 2008|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070328094417/http://internationalrules.gaa.ie/1998.html|archive-date= 28 March 2007|url-status= dead|df= dmy-all}}

Results

Both tests were played at GAA Headquarters (Croke Park in Dublin). The total series attendance was 58,121.

Sources for the following details: Footy Stats{{Cite web |url=http://footystats.freeservers.com/Footystats/Aust-Ireland.html |title=Ireland v Australia 1998 |access-date=22 May 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006072553/http://footystats.freeservers.com/Footystats/Aust-Ireland.html#1998 |archive-date=6 October 2014 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}
Source for scores in the second test: International Rules Gold (TG4){{Cite web|url=http://www.tg4.ie/ie/tg4-player.html|title = TG4 TV | Irish TV | Irish Television Channel | Súil Eile | Gaeilge}}

= First test =

class="wikitable"
style="background:#f03;" ! Team !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4 !! Total
30px Ireland	0.5.4 (19)	1.9.6 (39)	2.11.9 (54)	2.13.10	(61)
30px Australia	0.2.2 (8)	0.8.4 (28)	0.11.8 (41)	2.13.11	(62)
colspan="6"\| Australia won by 1 point

class="wikitable"
Date \| style="width:275px; text-align:center;"\|Sunday, 11 October 1998
Scoring (IRL) \| style="width:275px; text-align:center;"\|Goals: McCabe, Donnellan Overs: Stynes 4, Canavan 3, McCabe 2, Foley 2, Donnellan, Fallon
Scoring (AUS) \| style="width:275px; text-align:center;"\|Goals: Neitz, Eagleton Overs: Carey 4, Lloyd 4, Neitz, Everitt, Camporeale, Farmer, Crawford
Best \| style="width:275px; text-align:center;"\|IRL: McCabe, McDermott, B. Stynes, Canavan AUS: Buckley, Smith, Carey, Neitz, Silvagni
Injuries \| style="width:275px; text-align:center;"\| Nil
Venue \| style="width:275px; text-align:center;"\|Croke Park, Dublin, Ireland
Attendance \| style="width:275px; text-align:center;"\|22,900
Referees / Umpires \| style="width:275px; text-align:center;"\|Mick Curley (Ireland) Andrew Coates (Australia)
colspan="2"\| [http://www.hoganstand.com/ArticleForm.aspx?ID=36173 Match report]

class="wikitable"

Date

| style="width:275px; text-align:center;"|Sunday, 11 October 1998

Scoring (IRL)

| style="width:275px; text-align:center;"|Goals: McCabe, Donnellan

Overs: Stynes 4, Canavan 3, McCabe 2, Foley 2, Donnellan, Fallon

Scoring (AUS)

| style="width:275px; text-align:center;"|Goals: Neitz, Eagleton

Overs: Carey 4, Lloyd 4, Neitz, Everitt, Camporeale, Farmer, Crawford

Best

| style="width:275px; text-align:center;"|IRL: McCabe, McDermott, B. Stynes, Canavan

AUS: Buckley, Smith, Carey, Neitz, Silvagni

Injuries

| style="width:275px; text-align:center;"| Nil

Venue

| style="width:275px; text-align:center;"|Croke Park, Dublin, Ireland

Attendance

| style="width:275px; text-align:center;"|22,900

Referees / Umpires

| style="width:275px; text-align:center;"|Mick Curley (Ireland)
Andrew Coates (Australia)

colspan="2"| [http://www.hoganstand.com/ArticleForm.aspx?ID=36173 Match report]

= Second test =

class="wikitable"
style="background:#f03;" ! Team !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4 !! Total
30px Ireland	0.6.2 (20)	2.7.4 (37)	4.9.7 (58)	4.12.7	(67)
30px Australia	1.1.1 (10)	2.6.6 (36)	2.8.10 (46)	2.10.14	(56)
colspan="6"\| Ireland won by 11 points

class="wikitable"
Date \| style="width:275px; text-align:center;"\|Sunday, 11 October 1998
Scoring (IRL) \| style="width:275px; text-align:center;"\|Goals: Canavan, Fallon, de Paor, Donnellan Overs: Canavan 3, Fallon 2, Stynes 2, Daly, Cavlan, Kenny, Lockhart, Tohill
Scoring (AUS) \| style="width:275px; text-align:center;"\|Goals: Harvey, Camporeale Overs: Holland 2, Eagleton 2, Ricciuto 2, Buckley, Stevens, Lloyd, Stynes
Best \| style="width:275px; text-align:center;"\|IRL: Canavan, McDermott, Fallon, Donnellan, McConnell AUS: Hart, Holland, Buckley, Carey, Ricciuto, Silvagni, Wellman
Injuries \| style="width:275px; text-align:center;"\|Nil
Venue \| style="width:275px; text-align:center;"\|Croke Park, Dublin, Ireland
Attendance \| style="width:275px; text-align:center;"\|35,221
Referees / Umpires \| style="width:275px; text-align:center;"\|Mick Curley (Ireland) Andrew Coates (Australia)
colspan="2"\| [http://www.hoganstand.com/ArticleForm.aspx?ID=36173 Match report]

class="wikitable"

Date

| style="width:275px; text-align:center;"|Sunday, 11 October 1998

Scoring (IRL)

| style="width:275px; text-align:center;"|Goals: Canavan, Fallon, de Paor, Donnellan

Overs: Canavan 3, Fallon 2, Stynes 2, Daly, Cavlan, Kenny, Lockhart, Tohill

Scoring (AUS)

| style="width:275px; text-align:center;"|Goals: Harvey, Camporeale

Overs: Holland 2, Eagleton 2, Ricciuto 2, Buckley, Stevens, Lloyd, Stynes

Best

| style="width:275px; text-align:center;"|IRL: Canavan, McDermott, Fallon, Donnellan, McConnell

AUS: Hart, Holland, Buckley, Carey, Ricciuto, Silvagni, Wellman

Injuries

| style="width:275px; text-align:center;"|Nil

Venue

| style="width:275px; text-align:center;"|Croke Park, Dublin, Ireland

Attendance

| style="width:275px; text-align:center;"|35,221

Referees / Umpires

| style="width:275px; text-align:center;"|Mick Curley (Ireland)
Andrew Coates (Australia)

colspan="2"| [http://www.hoganstand.com/ArticleForm.aspx?ID=36173 Match report]

Squads

Source: Official Series match-day programme{{ Cite journal | publisher = DBA Publications Limited. | issue= 11 & 18 October 1998 | journal = 1998 International Rules Series Programme | title= Squads }}

colspan="4" \| Ireland ! colspan="4" \| Australia
style="margin:auto;" class="wikitable"
Num. ! Name ! Team ! Position ! Num. ! Name ! Team ! Position
\| N/A	Colm O'Rourke	Meath	Manager	N/A	Leigh Matthews	N/A	Head coach
\| 1	Finbarr McConnell	Tyrone	Goalkeeper	1	Stephen Silvagni	Carlton	Goalkeeper
\| 2	Peter Canavan	Tyrone	Vice Captain[http://www.hoganstand.com/ArticleForm.aspx?ID=36173 An uncompromising success November 1998]	2	Nick Holland	Hawthorn
\| 3	Kieran McGeeney	Armagh		3	Matthew Lloyd	Essendon
\| 4	Diarmaid Marsden	Armagh		5	Nathan Buckley	Collingwood
\| 5	Anthony Tohill	Derry		6	Sean Wellman	Essendon
\| 6	Seán Marty Lockhart	Derry		8	Anthony Stevens	North Melbourne
\| 7	Brendan Devenney	Donegal		9	Shane Crawford	Hawthorn
\| 8	Paul Brewster	Fermanagh		10	Peter Everitt	St Kilda
\| 9	Dermot McCabe	Cavan		11	Jim Stynes	Melbourne
\| 10	Darren Fay	Meath		12	Todd Viney	Melbourne
\| 11	James Nallen	Mayo		14	Nathan Eagleton	Port Adelaide
\| 12	Colm Parkinson	Laois		15	David Neitz	Melbourne
\| 13	Derry Foley	Tipperary		16	Scott Camporeale	Carlton
\| 14	Finbar Cullen	Offaly		17	Nigel Smart	Adelaide
\| 15	John Kenny	Offaly		18	Wayne Carey	North Melbourne	Captain
\| 16	Brian Stynes	Dublin		19	Rohan Smith	Western Bulldogs
\| 17	Séamus Moynihan	Kerry		20	Jeff Farmer	Melbourne
\| 18	John McDermott	Meath	Captain	21	Shaun Rehn	Adelaide
\| 19	Jarlath Fallon	Galway		22	Wayne Campbell	Richmond
\| 20	Michael Donnellan	Galway		24	Brad Johnson	Western Bulldogs
\| 21	Niall Buckley	Kildare		32	Mark Ricciuto	Adelaide
\| 22	Seán Óg de Paor	Galway		34	Ben Hart	Adelaide
\| 23	Colm McManaman	Mayo		35	Robert Harvey	St Kilda
\| 24	Glenn Ryan	Kildare
\| 25	Kevin O'Brien	Wicklow
\| 26	Martin Daly	Clare
\| 27	Jim McGuinness	Donegal
\| 28	Eoin Gormley	Tyrone
\| 29	Gerard Cavlan	Tyrone
\| 30	Kevin Walsh	Galway
\| 31	Seán Ó Domhnaill	Galway
\|	Michael Magill	Down	Standby
\|	Damien Donlon	Roscommon	Standby

Jim Stynes Medal – Stephen Silvagni

References

External links

[https://web.archive.org/web/20081101154659/http://www.tariksport.com/intrules.shtml Tarik's International Rules Football]
[http://www.gaa.ie/ Official GAA website]
[http://www.afl.com.au/ Official AFL website]
[http://www.rte.ie/sport/gaa/football_internationalrules_index.html RTÉ International Rules section]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20081216030345/http://www.hoganstand.com/int_rules/ Hogan Stand International Rules section]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20080903015412/http://www.afl.com.au/News/InternationalRules/tabid/13021/default.aspx AFL International Rules section]

International Rules Series

Category:International Rules series

Category:International sports competitions hosted by Ireland

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