17 Photos From A Very Special Night That Proved You Will Never, Ever Beat The Irish

Ray Houghton. Stuttgart. 1988.

Packie Bonner and David O’Leary. Genoa. 1990.

Ray Houghton. New York. 1994.

Jason McAteer. Dublin. 2001.

Robbie Keane. Yokohama. 2002.

And tonight… Shane Long. Dublin. 2015.

We saw history happen tonight – a rare night that we’re going to be talking about, recalling, reminscing upon and drunkenly weeping over for as long as football lives.

Here, to have and to hold, is a record of how it happened.