2015 was a ruddy good year for Irish sport and Irish sports people.
And the good folk at Inpho were there to capture the glory, the heartbreak and the stunning triumphs that made us delight, curse and swear we’d never allow ourselves get so emotionally invested in men and women running around a field again.
From Martin O’Neill to the forlorn Paul O’Connell, enjoy a selection of the best sporting pictures of 2015
1. Taste the frost as NUIG face Mayo in the Connacht FBD Football League in January.
2. Stephanie Roche makes Messi and Ronaldo take notice.
3. The King leaves the stage as Henry Shefflin retires from inter-county hurling.
4. Dave Kearney goes ‘Legs 11’ in the Six Nations.
5. The Cork camogie team are head over heels for the O’Duffy Cup.
6. This is how we want to remember Paul O’Connell at the World Cup.
7. But this is the abiding memory.
8. Out of the fog came clarity…and Robbie Brady.
9. Connacht’s George Naoupu steaming up in Russia.
10. Poor Pascal Donohoe, like the spare wheel at a teenage disco.
11. Simon Zebo and young fan Jennifer Malone.
12. Martin O’Neill jumps for joy after the 1-0 win over Germany.
