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There are many sports people from Galway in Ireland. Joe Canning, who plays Hurling for Portumna and for Galway, would be one of the best known. Players with international profiles include the Rugby player Robbie Henshaw and Republic of Ireland soccer goalkeeper David Forde.

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There are many famous Irish sports people. Some may not be so well known in other countries and it would also depend on what sports people are interested in as to whether they would have heard of them. Some would be:

Eddie Irvine (Motor Racing)

Brian O'Driscoll, Ronan O'Gara, Paul O'Connell (Rugby)

Eamon Coughlan (Athletics)

Robbie Keane, Roy Keane (Soccer)

Tony McCoy (Horse Racing)

Padraig Harrington, Rory McIlroy (Golf)

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there are famous people from Ireland but i not sure who?

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At the moment it's probably Kenny Egan the olympic boxer

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Here are just a few. Roy Keane (soccer), Padraig Harrington (golf), Brian O'Driscoll (rugby), Johnny Murtagh (Horse Racing). There are a huge amount of others.

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