Ronan O'Gara, You Are A Legend

For those of you who don't know, Ireland had a huge victory on Saturday.

For the first time in 61 years, the Irish National Rugby Team clinched not only the Six Nations Championship but also the Triple Crown and the ever-elusive Grand Slam!

Six Nations Tournament: A tournament comprised of six European nations - Ireland, Scotland, England, Wales, France, and Italy. In the spring each year, these six teams compete in a tournament to determine which country has the best rugby in Europe. This championship is not based on one single game, but rather a points system based on wins and losses. Whichever team has the most points at the end of the tournament wins. This year, in winning the Six Nations, Ireland has become more recognized as among one of the best rugby teams in the world. It was their first championship win since 1985.

Triple Crown: The Irish team won all of their games against the other three teams competing for the Triple Crown - Scotland, England, and Wales.

Grand Slam: Probably the most distinguishable award of the tournament. Ireland went undefeated in the tournament for the first time since 1948.

For all of you rugby fans out there (Calvin), I'll give a quick rundown of the game.
Wales came out with a 6-0 lead in the first half off of two penalty kicks, and Ireland remained scoreless until the first minutes of the second. Halftime did the Irish well, as they came out of the gates flying and scored two tries and connected on both kicks to make the score 14-6 (one try was off a beautiful kick to the wing and the other off a steal from the Wales backline). Wales clawed their way back with a series of penalty kicks (stupid British sir) to make the score 14-12. Wales couldn't miss; they were scoring from at least 45m every time...one kick was even 57m!! Then, to Ireland's horror, Wales scored on a conversion with five minutes left to take the lead 15-14. Ireland kicked off, regained possession of the ball, and advanced the ball with crashes by the forwards for several phases. FINALLY, with just over 2 minutes remaining, the ball swung out to the backs and none other than Ronan O'Gara scored on his own conversion, regaining the lead for Ireland at 17-15. Just when we thought Ireland was safe, the sir called a (pardon my French) BULLSHIT penalty at the 48m in the center of the field and awarded a kick to Wales with just ten seconds left in the match. Galven Henson hesitated, and missed the kick short by about a foot. The uproar in the pub was insane; even I was jumping up and down and screaming with everyone.

It was definitely one of the most memorable moments I have ever had in Ireland so far.