March 2006 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - → Look up March in Wiktionary, the free dictionary March is the third month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This page deals with current events in the English-speaking places of Europe. ... January 2006 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December Events in Britain and Ireland This page deals with current events in Great Britain and Ireland, of interest to and/or involving the British or the Irish. ... This page deals with current events in the English-speaking places of Europe. ...

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This page deals with current events in the English-speaking places of Europe. These are England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, the Isle of Man, Jersey, Guernsey and Gibraltar. Europe is conventionally considered one of the seven continents of Earth which, in this case, is more a cultural and political distinction than a physiographic one, leading to various perspectives about Europes borders. ... Royal motto (French): Dieu et mon droit (Translated: God and my right) Englands location (dark green) within the United Kingdom (light green), with the Republic of Ireland (blue) to its west Languages None official English de facto Capital None official London de facto Largest city London Area – Total Ranked... For an explanation of often confusing terms such as Great Britain, Britain, United Kingdom, England and Wales and England, see British Isles (terminology). ... Motto: Nemo me impune lacessit (English: No one provokes me with impunity) Scotlands location within Europe Scotlands location within the United Kingdom Languages English, Gaelic, Scots Capital Edinburgh Largest city Glasgow First Minister Jack McConnell Area - Total - % water Ranked 2nd UK 78,782 km² 1. ... Dieu et mon droit (motto) (French for God and my right)2 Northern Irelands location within the UK Main language English Other recognised languages Irish, Ulster Scots Capital and largest city Belfast First Minister Office suspended Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Peter Hain MP Area  - Total Ranked 4th...

28 March 2006 (Tuesday)

• 1.5 million council workers across the country begin a 24 hour strike over pensions. (BBC), (Times)

March 28 is the 87th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (88th in Leap years). ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A pension (also known as superannuation) is a retirement plan intended to provide a person with a secure income for life. ...

24 March 2006 (Friday)

• 4,000 job cuts have been announced in the National Health Service over the last two weeks with more feared (Guardian).
• Muhammad Babar, a suspected al-Qaeda "supergrass", in court at the Old Bailey in London in connection with alleged plots to commit terrorist offences including attacks on Bluewater Shopping Centre (The Times).
• Britain has been idenitifed as a prime candidate to host interceptor missiles part of the "son of Star Wars", the United States' missile defence system (Telegraph).
• Captain Peter Norton awarded the George Cross for bravery in Iraq in which he lost a leg. he is only the 22nd member of the armed forces to received this medal (BBC).

March 24 is the 83rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (84th in Leap years). ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The logo of the NHS for England. ... Al-Qaeda (Arabic: القاعدة, the foundation or the base) is the name given to a worldwide network of militant Islamist organizations under the leadership of Osama bin Laden. ... The Old Bailey by Mountford (1907) The Central Criminal Court, commonly known as The Old Bailey (a bailey being part of a castle), is a Crown Court (criminal high court) in London, dealing with major criminal cases in the UK. It stands on the site of the mediaeval Newgate Gaol... Bluewater exterior Bluewater Shopping Centre is a large out-of-town shopping mall located in Greenhithe in the borough of Dartford, just outside London in north west Kent. ... The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), commonly called Star Wars after the popular science fiction movies, was a system proposed by U.S. President Ronald Reagan on March 23, 1983[1] to use ground-based and space-based systems to protect the United States from attack by strategic nuclear ballistic missiles. ... Peter Allen Norton GC (born 1962) is an Ammunition Technical Officer with the British Army Royal Logistic Corps who was awarded the George Cross for his service in Iraq. ... George Cross The George Cross (GC) is the highest Commonwealth decoration awarded for acts of conspicuous gallantry not in the face of the enemy and is equal to the Victoria Cross. ...

23 March 2006 (Thursday)

• A tortoise that once belonged to British colonial Lord Clive in the 18th Century has died at the age of 250 in a zoo in Calcutta. (BBC)
• The British Embassy in Baghdad confirms the rescue of three Christian Peacemaker hostages held in Iraq for nearly four months; Briton Norman Kember and Canadians Harmeet Singh Sooden and James Loney. They were freed during a multinational military operation involving American, British, Canadian and Iraqi forces. (Channel 4 News), (BBC), (CTV)

March 23 is the 82nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (83rd in Leap years). ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Genera Chersina Dipsochelys Furculachelys Geochelone Gopherus Homopus Indotestudo Kinixys Malacochersus Manouria Psammobates Pyxis Testudo A tortoise is a land-dwelling reptile of the order Testudines. ... In general, the word colonial means of or relating to a colony. In United States history, the term Colonial is used to refer to the period before US independence. ... This article needs a complete rewrite for the reasons listed on the talk page. ... This article is on Calcutta/Kolkata, the city. ... Location of Baghdad within Iraq Baghdad (Arabic: ‎ translit: , Kurdish: Bexda, from Persian Baagh-daad or Bag-Da-Du meaning “Garden of God” [1]) is the capital of Iraq and of Baghdad Governorate. ... Norman Kember and Harmeet Singh Sooden were held hostage, as depicted here on Al Jazeera television. ... Norman Kember being held as a hostage. ... Harmeet Singh Sooden (born 1973) is a Canadian peace activist working with Christian Peacemaker Teams in Iraq. ... James Loney (born 1964) is a Canadian peace activist, who has worked for several years with Christian Peacemaker Teams in Iraq and Palestine. ... The word multinational can refer to: A Multinational corporation A Multinational State This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title. ...

22 March 2006 (Wednesday)

• Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown unveils his tenth Budget. PDF version (BBC)
• The Law Lords rule that Shabina Begum's human rights were not infringed by her school preventing her from wearing a jilbāb, overturning the previous decision of the Court of Appeal. (Times)
• Tracy Williams from Oldham is ordered to pay £10,000 damages, plus £7,200 legal costs for libelling former parliamentary candidate Michael Keith-Smith in a Yahoo chat room and in her blog. She had accused him of being a sex offender and a racist bigot. Williams did not file a defence to the libel writ. (Manchester Evening News), (Times), (BBC)

22 March is the 81st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (82nd in Leap years). ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Rt. ... James Gordon Brown, Ph. ... The House of Lords, in addition to having a legislative function, has a judicial function as a court of last resort within the United Kingdom. ... Shabina Begum was a pupil at Denbigh High School, in Luton, England, who was expelled for insisting on wearing a jilbab (a long and flowing gown) to school (which she believed was required by her Muslim faith), in contravention of the school uniform policy. ... Woman wearing jilbāb In modern day usage, jilbāb (Arabic جلباب) refers to a long, flowing, baggy overgarment worn by some Muslim women. ... Her Majestys Court of Appeal is the second most senior court in the English legal system (with only the judges of the House of Lords above it). ... Location within the British Isles Mumps Bridge, Oldham Backwoods of Delph, Oldham Oldham is a large town in North West England, lying in the foothills of the Pennines on the north-eastern edge of the Greater Manchester conurbation: the town proper has a population of 103,544, including a large... In English and American law, and systems based on them, libel and slander are two forms of defamation (or defamation of character), which is the tort or delict of making a false statement of fact that injures someones reputation. ... Look up Yahoo in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... A chat room is an online forum where people can chat online (talk by broadcasting messages to people on the same forum in real time). ... A weblog (usually shortened to blog, but occasionally spelled web log or weblog) is a web-based publication consisting primarily of periodic articles, most often in reverse chronological order. ...

21 March 2006 (Tuesday)

• John Humble, 50, who admitted being the hoaxer "Wearside Jack" in the Yorkshire Ripper serial murder investigation in 1978-79, is jailed for eight years. (BBC)
• Irish Taoiseach Bertie Ahern has said in the Dáil that he believes the British security forces colluded with loyalist paramilitaries in the planning of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane's murder in 1989. (Irish examiner)
• Metropolitan Police confirm they are to investigate claims that the Labour Party broke the Honours (Prevention of Abuses) Act 1925 in the ongoing controversy over "cash for Peerages" row. (BBC)

March 21 is the 80th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (81st in leap years). ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Peter Sutcliffe (born June 2, 1946), infamous as the Yorkshire Ripper, was convicted in 1981 of the murders of thirteen women and attacks on seven more from 1975 to 1980. ... The Taoiseach (plural: Taoisigh) or, more formally, An Taoiseach, is the head of government of the Republic of Ireland and the leader of the Irish cabinet. ... Patrick Bartholemew Ahern (Irish name: Pádraig Parthalán Ó hEachthairn) (born 12 September 1951), commonly called Bertie Ahern, is an Irish politician. ... Dáil Éireann[1] is the lower house of the Oireachtas (parliament) of the Republic of Ireland. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Unionists (Ireland). ... WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: 54. ... Patrick Finucane (born 1949)[1] was a Belfast lawyer murdered by loyalist paramilitaries on February 12, 1989, for defending members of the IRA in court. ... Metropolitan Police redirects here. ... The Labour Party has since its formation in the early 20th century been the principal left wing political party in the United Kingdom (see British politics). ... The Honours (Prevention of Abuses) Act 1925 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that makes the sale of Peerages and other Honours illegal. ... Cash for Peerages describes a political scandal in the United Kingdom in March 2006 when several men nominated for peerages by Prime Minister Tony Blair were rejected by the House of Lords Appointments Commission. ...

20 March 2006 (Monday)

• Government announces plans to make all donations to political parties public knowledge after controversy over nominated peers who had made substantial loans to the Labour Party (BBC).
• First motorway car-sharing lane in Britain to be built on the junction of the M62 and M606 between Bradford and Leeds in an attempt to reduce traffic congestion. (BBC).

March 20 is the 79th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (80th in Leap years). ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Labour Party has since its formation in the early 20th century been the principal left wing political party in the United Kingdom (see British politics). ... The M62 motorway connects the cities of Liverpool and Hull, in England. ... The M606 Bradford Spur motorway leaves the M62 motorway at junction 26, near Cleckheaton, and heads into Bradford, to join the A6177 Bradford Ring Road at an incomplete terminus. ... Bradford is the major settlement in the City of Bradford Metropolitan District, in the county of West Yorkshire in the north of England. ... Leeds is the urban core of the metropolitan borough and city the City of Leeds in West Yorkshire in the north of England. ...

15 March 2006 (Wednesday)

• The High Court of Justice refuses to allow Doctors to allow a severely disabled baby to die by turning off his ventilator against his parents wishes. (BBC).
• Five arrests made over protests in London against the cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad (Guardian)
• The House of Commons votes to approve an education reform bill. Tony Blair's authority is called into question for his relying on the opposition Conservative party to secure the vote, due to revolt within his own Labour party. (Bloomberg)
• Over 1 million local authority workers plan to go on strike in what would be the largest industrial unrest since the 1926 General Strike. (Independent)

March 15 is the 74th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (75th in Leap years). ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Her Majestys High Court of Justice (usually known more simply as the High Court) is, together with the Crown Court and the Court of Appeal, part of the Supreme Court of England and Wales: see Courts of England and Wales. ... The controversial cartoons of Muhammad, first published in Jyllands-Posten in September 2005. ... British House of Commons Canadian House of Commons In some bicameral parliaments of a Westminster System, the House of Commons has historically been the name of the elected lower house. ... The Subsidised Mineowner - Poor Beggar! from the Trade Union Unity Magazine (1925) Foraging for coal in the strike Tyldesley miners outside the Miners Hall during the strike The UK General Strike of 1926 lasted nine days, from 3 May 1926 to 12 May 1926, and was called by the General...

14 March 2006 (Tuesday)

• In London, six men taking part in a clinical trial for a new anti-inflammatory drug TGN1412 are placed in intensive care, some in a life-threatening condition, after suffering adverse side-effects. (BBC)
• Euronext, a derivatives exchange based in Amsterdam and Paris, announced that it might join the ongoing auction for the London Stock Exchange — which would put it in competition with bidders Nasdaq and the Deutsche Boerse. (Forbes)

March 14 is the 73rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (74th in Leap years) with 292 days remaining in the year. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the British city. ... In medicine, a clinical trial (synonyms: clinical studies, research protocols, medical research) is a research study. ... TGN1412 (also known as CD28-SuperMAB®) is the working name of an immunomodulatory drug intended for the treatment of B cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (B-CLL) and rheumatoid arthritis. ... Intensive care medicine or critical care medicine is concerned with providing greater than ordinary medical care and observation to people in a critical or unstable condition. ... Euronext N.V. is a pan-European stock exchange with subsidiaries in Belgium, France, Netherlands, Portugal and the United Kingdom. ... Amsterdam Location Flag Country Netherlands Province North Holland Population 742,951(1 January 2005) Coordinates Website www. ... The Eiffel Tower, the international symbol of the city, with the skyscrapers of La Défense business district 5 km/ 3 mi behind. ... The Source by Greyworld, in the new LSE building Paternoster Square. ... NASDAQ (originally an acronym for National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations ) is a U.S. electronic stock exchange. ... The Frankfurt Stock Exchange (outside) The DAX chart (inside) The Frankfurt Stock Exchange (German: FWB® Frankfurter Wertpapierbörse) is a stock exchange located in Frankfurt, Germany. ...

13 March 2006 (Monday)

• London Metropolitan Police chief Sir Ian Blair admits secretly recording conversations with the Attorney General Lord Goldsmith, an act that could lead to a civil legal proceedings if the other party has not granted permission for conversations to be taped. (BBC)

March 13 is the 72nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (73rd in leap years). ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) (commonly referred to by its former official name of the Metropolitan Police, or colloquially as The Met; often referred to in legislation as the Police of the Metropolis) is the Home Office (territorial) police force responsible for Greater London, England, with the exception of the... Sir Ian Blair, QPM (born 19 March 1953) is the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police in London. ... Her Majestys Attorney General for England and Wales, usually known as the Attorney General, is the chief legal adviser of the Crown in England and Wales. ... Lord Goldsmith Attorney General The Right Honourable Peter Henry Goldsmith, Baron Goldsmith, PC, QC (born 5 January 1950), is the current Attorney General of England and Wales. ...

8 March 2006 (Wednesday)

• An inquest at Bury St Edmunds declares the largest hoard of Roman copper-alloy coins ever discovered in Britain, found near Mildenhall, Suffolk, last October, to be treasure. 258 coins of the usurper Carausius (AD 287-293) and 347 of the usurper Allectus (293-296) were discovered by a metal detectorist. (Eastern Daily Press)
• European Union lifts ban on British beef exports imposed after outbreak of BSE 10 years ago. (Guardian).
• Police stand by "shoot to kill" policy regarding suspected terrorists despite the killing of Jean Charles de Menezes in 2005. (Reuters).
• House of Lords to rule on whether Leeds City Council breached the human rights of Gypsy travellers by evicting them from a public recreation area (Manchester Evening News).
• The Channel Island of Sark votes to maintain its feudal system of governance (BBC)

March 8 is the 67th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (68th in Leap years). ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Map sources for Bury St Edmunds at grid reference TL8564 Bury St Edmunds is a town in the county of Suffolk, England, with a population of 35,015 (2001 census). ... For other senses of this name, see Roman Empire (disambiguation). ... This article is about the village of Mildenhall, Suffolk. ... Suffolk (pronounced SUF-fk) is a large traditional and administrative county in the East Anglia region of eastern England. ... Carausius coin from Londinium mint. ... Allectus (died 296) was a Roman emperor in Britain (293–296). ... Look up Bovine spongiform encephalopathy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Jean Charles de Menezes (7 January 1978–22 July 2005) was a Brazilian electrician living in Tulse Hill in south London, England. ... This article is about the British House of Lords. ... Leeds City Council is the city council for the Metropolitan Borough of Leeds in West Yorkshire, England. ... Human rights are rights which some hold to be inalienable and belonging to all humans. ... Irish Travellers are a nomadic or itinerant people of Irish origin living in Ireland, Great Britain and the United States. ... The Channel Islands are a group of islands off the coast of Normandy, France, in the English Channel. ... Flag of Sark Sark (in French, Sercq, in Sercquiais Sèr) is a small island of the Channel Islands, part of the Bailiwick of Guernsey. ... Roland pledges his fealty to Charlemagne; from a manuscript of a chanson de geste. ...

7 March 2006 (Tuesday)

• British Lieutenant General Nick Houghton announces that the UK's 8,000 soldiers in Iraq could begin leaving the country within weeks. Most would be home by 2008, he says. (Guardian Unlimited)

March 7 is the 66th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (67th in leap years). ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The British Army is the land armed forces branch of the British Armed Forces. ...

6 March 2006 (Monday)

• The United Kingdom government is defeated in the House of Lords over a plan to make biometric ID cards compulsory for passport applicants. The government is to seek to overturn the defeat in the House of Commons. (United Press International)

March 6 is the 65th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (66th in Leap years). ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the British House of Lords. ... At Disney World, biometric measurements are taken of the fingers of multi-day pass users to ensure that the pass is used by the same person from day to day. ... German identity document sample An identity document is a piece of documentation designed to prove the identity of the person carrying it. ... The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ...

3 March 2006 (Friday)

• Gary Glitter jailed for three years by a Vietnamese Court for sexually abusing two girls. After serving his sentence he will be deported to the United Kingdom where he may face further charges (BBC).
• Footballer Ashley Cole sues The Sun and News of the World for "libel, harassment and breach of privacy" over sexual allegations printed by those newspapers despite not being explicitly named in the articles (BBC).
• Securitas depot robbery: Police recover millions of pounds in a raid in Tonbridge related to the armed robbery (Guardian).
• VAT rates on condoms and morning after pills to be reduced from 17.5 % to 5% in Britain in a drive to reduce rates of sexually transmitted diseases (Telegraph).

March 3 is the 62nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (63rd in leap years). ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Gary Glitter on the cover of a Greatest Hits album. ... Ashley Cole (born December 20, 1980 in Whitechapel, London) is an English football player of half Barbadian descent. ... Look up sun in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The News of the World is a British tabloid newspaper published every Sunday. ... The Securitas depot in Tonbridge The Securitas depot robbery was a robbery which took place in the early hours of 22 February 2006, between 01:00 and 02:15 UTC in England, an operation that succeeded in stealing the largest cash amount in British crime history. ... Tonbridge is a market town in the English county of Kent, with a population of 31,600 in 2001. ... vat can be a type of barrel used for storage. ... A condom sealed in typical packaging A condom is a device, usually made of latex or more recently polyurethane, that is used during sexual intercourse to reduce the risk of pregnancy and/or some sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) such as gonorrhea, syphilis and HIV. Condoms are also often used to... The morning-after pill, also known as emergency contraception or emergency birth control, is a pill regimen that a woman can take up to three days after she has had sexual intercourse to prevent the implantation of a fertilized egg in her uterus. ... Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) – also known as sexually transmissible diseases, sexually transmitted infections (STIs), or (infrequently) venereal diseases (VD) – are diseases or infections that have a significant probability of transmission between humans by means of sexual contact—vaginal intercourse, oral sex, and/or anal sex. ...

2 March 2006 (Thursday)

• Securitas depot robbery: three suspects to appear in court over the armed robbery (BBC).
• Italian judges in Milan to charge Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and David Mills, husband of Tessa Jowell the Culture Secretary, in connection with a bribery scandal. (Independent).
• Four people killed in an explosion in a GlaxoSmithKline factory in Irvine, North Ayrshire (Telegraph).
• The Times publishes letters from Charles, Prince of Wales revealing his opposition to the Human Rights Act 1998, lobbying the Prime Minister and the Lord Chancellor (Times).
• Sir Menzies Campbell has been elected the new leader of the UK Liberal Democrats Party. (BBC)

March 2 is the 61st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (62nd in leap years). ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Securitas depot in Tonbridge The Securitas depot robbery was a robbery which took place in the early hours of 22 February 2006, between 01:00 and 02:15 UTC in England, an operation that succeeded in stealing the largest cash amount in British crime history. ... Milan (Italian: Milano; Milanese: Milán) is the main city of northern Italy, and is located in the plains of Lombardy, the most populated and developed region in Italy. ... (born 29 September 1936) is an Italian politician, entrepreneur, and media proprietor. ... David Mackenzie Mills is a British corporate lawyer who specialises in international work for Italian companies, and who has been accused in Italy of corruption. ... Rt. ... The Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport is a UK cabinet position with responsibility for the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. ... GlaxoSmithKline plc (LSE: GSK NYSE: GSK) is a British based pharmaceutical, biologicals, and healthcare company. ... Irvine is a coastal new town in Ayrshire, Scotland, administered by North Ayrshire council. ... The Times is a national newspaper published daily in the United Kingdom. ... The Prince of Wales The Prince Charles, Prince of Wales (Charles Philip Arthur George Mountbatten-Windsor) (born 14 November 1948), is the eldest son of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. ... The Human Rights Act 1998 is a United Kingdom Act of Parliament which received Royal Assent on November 9, 1998, and came into force on October 2, 2000. ... Sir Robert Walpole, the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. ... The Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, or Lord Chancellor and in former times the Chancellor of England and the Lord Chancellor of Scotland, is one of the most senior and important functionaries in the government of the United Kingdom, and its predecessor states. ... Rt. ... The Liberal Democrats, often shortened to Lib Dems, are a liberal political party in the United Kingdom. ...

1 March 2006 (Wednesday)

• Football results:
  • Switzerland 3 – Scotland 1 (Reuters).
  • Northern Ireland 1 – Estonia 0 (Reuters).
  • England 2 – Uruguay 1 (Reuters).
  • Wales 0 – Paraguay 0 (Reuters).
  • Republic of Ireland 3 – Sweden 0

March 1 is the 60th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (61st in leap years). ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Look up Football in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... First international Scotland 0 - 0 England (Partick, Scotland; 30 November 1872) Largest win Scotland 9 - 0 Wales (Glasgow, Scotland; 23 March 1878) Worst defeat Uruguay 7 - 0 Scotland (Basel, Switzerland; 19 June 1954) World Cup Appearances 8 (First in 1954) Best result Round 1, all European Championship Appearances 2 (First... First international Ireland 0 - 13 England (Belfast, Ireland; February 18, 1882) Largest win Ireland (IFA) 7 - 0 Wales (Belfast, Northern Ireland; February 1, 1930) Worst defeat Ireland 0 - 13 England (Belfast, Ireland; February 18, 1882) World Cup Appearances 3 (First in 1958) Best result Quarterfinals, 1958 European Championship Appearances none... First international Scotland 0 - 0 England (Partick, Scotland; 30 November 1872) Largest win Ireland 0 - 13 England (Belfast, Northern Ireland; 18 February 1882) Worst defeat Hungary 7 - 1 England (Budapest, Hungary; 23 May 1954) World Cup Appearances 12 (First in 1950) Best result Winners, 1966 European Championship Appearances 7 (First... First international Scotland 4 - 0 Wales (Glasgow, Scotland; 26 March 1876) Largest win Wales 11 - 0 Ireland (Wrexham, Wales; 3 March 1888) Worst defeat Scotland 9 - 0 Wales (Glasgow, Scotland; 23 March 1878) World Cup Appearances 1 (First in 1958) Best result Quarter-finals, 1958 European Championship Appearances none (First...

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