Republic of Ireland national netball team
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{{redirect|Ireland national netball team|Northern Ireland's netball team|Northern Ireland national netball team}}
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| coach = Teresa Gillespie
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The Republic of Ireland national netball team is the national netball team of Ireland. Their best performance at international tournament was a 10th-place finish in the 1991 World Netball Championships.{{Cite web |url=http://www.netballireland.com/About |title=About Netball |publisher=Netball Ireland |accessdate=1 August 2012}} As of 25 August 2022, the Republic of Ireland are 24th in the INF World Rankings.{{cite web |url=https://netball.sport/events-and-results/current-world-rankings |website=Netball.org |title=Current world rankings - Based on matches up to 2nd December, 2019 |accessdate=20 December 2019}} The current team members are below.
Players
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* Aisling Sweeney
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Competitive record
The Irish team claimed their first Netball Europe Festival win in Gibraltar. Ireland took on Malta, Israel, Switzerland and hosts Gibraltar on their way to the crown in what was their first time playing world ranking games.
Losing only once in the opening round, they dominated the competition and finished with an emphatic 53–17 win over Gibraltar.
Ireland competed in Singapore finishing 4th, the most successful the nation has been at the tournament.{{Cite web|url=http://www.netballireland.com/|title=Netball Ireland {{!}} The National Netball Ireland Team and Sports Women|website=NetBall Ireland|language=en-US|access-date=2018-11-01}} Since then Ireland has competed in Hong Kong in February 2018 in the Asian Quad Series, where they walked away with gold and in Gibraltar where they were undefeated with another gold under their belt.{{Cite news|url=http://www.netballireland.com/senior-squad/|title=Senior Squad – NetBall Ireland|work=NetBall Ireland|access-date=2018-11-01|language=en-US}}