Each weekend we take a look back on the sporting highs from across Ireland and around the world through the medium of numbers. This weekend there was a century and a rare hat trick in Rugby, confirmation that age is just a number in Gaelic Football and Triathlon, the harsh metrics of success in the English Premier League and an impressive cycling debut in the Netherlands…

100

Johnny Sexton won his 100th Cap for Ireland and scored his 15th try in a 60-5 blow-out win against Japan in front of a 40,000 crowd at the Aviva Stadium on Saturday.

3

He was almost upstaged by Andrew Conway who scored a hat-trick of tries, a feat which has been completed only 54 times in the history of the Six Nations, and only by only four other Irish players in that competition in the modern era.

39

Naas Gaelic Football Captain Eamonn Callaghan might be edging towards the veteran’s stage but he sparked the biggest celebrations of the GAA Club weekend when lifting the Kildare Senior Football Title for only the second time in the Club’s history and the first time since 1990. The Kildare Final tickets were the most expensive of all the County Finals, at €22 but the start still had to be delayed by 10 minutes due to the large crowd.

59

Siobhan Kennedy is our latest Irish World Champion, taking the Age Grade 55-59 World Duathlon Championship in Spain over the weekend, Born in 1962 and hailing from Waterford she overcame a field of international competitors in Aviles in Spain to complete the double run and 42-kilometre cycle in a time of 2:29:21 to land the title.

5

The number of consecutive defeats in the Premier League it takes to get the sack these days. Dean Smith took over Aston Villa in 2018 when they were fifth in the second-tier Championship. Friday night’s 1-0 defeat away to Southampton though was the final straw for a board disappointed to have ‘not seen the continuous improvement in results, performances and league position which we have all been looking for.”

32

The number of ‘grid’ places that international debutant 16-year old Liam O’Brien from Cork made up on his first appearance at the European Cyclocross Championships in the Netherlands at the weekend. Starting 51st on the grid he made it up to finish in 19th place.

 

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