Editing Ulster (section)

==Sport==
The border has divided association football teams since 1921.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fai.ie/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=32&Itemid=47|title=Football Association of Ireland|website=www.fai.ie|access-date=5 January 2007|archive-date=7 December 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061207101708/http://www.fai.ie/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=32&Itemid=47|url-status=live}}</ref> The [[Irish Football Association]] (the I.F.A.) oversees the sport in N.I., while the [[Football Association of Ireland]] (the F.A.I.) oversees the sport in the Republic. As a result, separate international teams are fielded and separate championships take place ([[Irish Football League]] in Northern Ireland, [[League of Ireland]] in the rest of Ulster and Ireland). Anomalously, [[Derry City F.C.]] has played in the League of Ireland since 1985 due to crowd trouble at some of their Irish League matches prior to this. The other major Ulster team in the League of Ireland is [[Finn Harps]] of [[Ballybofey]], County Donegal. When Derry City F.C. and Finn Harps play against each other, the game is usually referred to as a 'North-West Derby'. There have been cup competitions between I.F.A. and F.A.I. clubs, most recently the [[Setanta Sports Cup]].

In [[Rugby union]], the professional rugby team representing the province and the [[Irish Rugby Football Union|IRFU]] Ulster Branch, [[Ulster Rugby]], compete in the [[United Rugby Championship]] along with teams from [[Wales]], [[Scotland]], Italy, South Africa and the other Irish Provinces ([[Leinster Rugby|Leinster]], [[Munster Rugby|Munster]] and [[Connacht Rugby|Connacht]]). They also compete in Europe's main club rugby tournament, the European Rugby Champions Cup, which they won (as the Heineken Cup) back in 1999. Notable Ulster rugby players include Willy John McBride, [[Jack Kyle]] and [[Mike Gibson (rugby union)|Mike Gibson]]. The former is the most capped [[British and Irish Lions|British and Irish Lion]] of all time, having completed four tours with the Lions in the sixties and seventies. At international level players from Ulster join with those from the other 3 provinces to form the island-wide Ireland team.

In [[Gaelic games]] (which include [[Gaelic football]] and [[hurling]]), [[Ulster GAA|Ulster]] counties play the [[Ulster Senior Football Championship]] and [[Ulster Senior Hurling Championship]]. In football, the main competitions in which they compete with the other Irish counties are the [[All-Ireland Senior Football Championship]] and [[National Football League (Ireland)|National Football League]], while the Ulster club champions represent the province in the [[All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship]]. Hurling teams play in the [[All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship]], [[National Hurling League]] and [[All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship]]. The whole province fields a team to play the other provinces in the [[Railway Cup]] in both football and hurling. Gaelic Football is by far the most popular of the [[Gaelic Athletic Association|GAA]] sports in Ulster but hurling is also played, especially in [[Antrim GAA|Antrim]], [[Armagh GAA|Armagh]], [[Derry GAA|Derry]], and [[Down GAA|Down]].

The [[Ulster Hockey Union]] organises [[field hockey]] in the province and contributes substantially to the all-island hockey team.<ref>{{cite news | url = https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/hockey/50209912 | title = Ireland hockey: Seven Ulster players in squad for Olympic qualifier against Canada | work = BBC Sport | date = 28 October 2019 | access-date = 28 October 2019 | archive-date = 29 October 2019 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20191029124619/https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/hockey/50209912 | url-status = live }}</ref>

[[Cricket]] is also played in Ulster, especially in Northern Ireland and East Donegal.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RPtXDMarWTEC&q=cricket+belfast+protestant&pg=PA225|title=Explaining Northern Ireland: Broken Images|first1=John|last1=McGarry|first2=Brendan|last2=O'Leary|date=8 June 1995|publisher=Wiley|via=Google Books|isbn=9780631183495}}</ref> Ulster enters two teams into the [[Cricket in Ireland#Inter-Provincial Series|Interprovincial Series]]; the [[Northern Knights (cricket team)|North Knights]] and the [[North West Warriors]], who are the respective representative teams of the [[Northern Cricket Union]] (NCU) and the [[North West Cricket Union]] (NWCU).

Golf is, however, by far the most high-profile sport and the sport that Ulster has succeeded at more than any other. Ulster has produced many great players over the years, from [[Fred Daly (golfer)|Fred Daly]] winning The Open Championship in 1947 at the Royal Liverpool Golf Club, Hoylake to most recently [[Rory McIlroy]] winning the US Open and [[Darren Clarke]] winning The Open Championship in 2011. Ulster also has another Major winner in [[Graeme McDowell]], who also won the US Open in 2010. The Open Championship returned to Ulster, after 68 years, in 2019 at [[Royal Portrush Golf Club]].

In horse racing, specifically National Hunt, Ulster has produced the most dominant jockey of all time, [[Tony McCoy]].

The [[Circuit of Ireland Rally]] is an annual [[auto racing|automobile]] [[rallying|rally]] held in Ulster since 1931.