League Table

	P	W	L	T	PF	PA	Pts
*Dublin Rebels	8	8	0	0	267	36	16
*Carrickfegus Knights	8	6	2	0	168	115	12
*University of Limerick Vikings	8	5	2	1	156	54	11
*Cork Admirals	8	4	3	1	184	107	9
Dublin Dragons	8	2	4	2	82	123	6
Belfast Bulls	8	3	5	0	142	201	6
Dublin City University Saints	8	1	7	0	125	324	2
North Dublin Marshals	8	1	7	0	129	303	2

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Playoff Results

Date	Home Team		Away Team
	Semi-Finals
06.08.2006	Dublin Rebels	58	Cork Admirals	22
06.08.2006	Carrickfergus Knights	25	UL Vikings	30
	Shamrock Bowl XX (Sportslink, Santry, Dublin)
20.08.2006	Dublin Rebels	44	UL Vikings	12

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Regular Season Results

Date	Home Team		Away Team
	Week 1
12.03.2006	UL Vikings	20	Belfast Bulls	0
	Week 2
19.03.2006	UL Vikings	58	DCU Saints	0
	Week 3
26.03.2006	Belfast Bulls	0	Dublin Rebels	30
26.03.2006	UL Vikings	12	Dublin Dragons	0
	Week 4
02.04.2006	Carrickfergus Knights	23	Cork Admirals	30
02.04.2006	Dublin Rebels	24	UL Vikings	6
	Week 5
09.04.2006	DCU Saints	41	North Dublin Marshals	45
09.04.2006	Dublin Dragons	6	UL Vikings	6
	Week 6
22.04.2006	North Dublin Marshals	6	UL Vikings	22
23.04.2006	DCU Saints	14	Carrickfergus Knights	36
23.04.2006	Dublin Dragons	6	Cork Admirals	6
	Week 7
30.04.2006	Belfast Bulls	40	North Dublin Marshals	38
30.04.2006	UL Vikings	20	Cork Admirals	0
	Week 8
06.05.2006	North Dublin Marshals	0	Dublin Dragons	30
07.05.2006	DCU Saints	12	Dublin Rebels	42
07.05.2006	Carrickfergus Knights	18	UL Vikings	12
	Week 9
28.05.2006	Cork Admirals	66	North Dublin Marshals	8
28.05.2006	Dublin Rebels	34	Carrickfergus Knights	0
	Week 10
04.06.2006	Cork Admirals	6	Carrickfergus Knights	24
	Week 11
11.06.2006	Belfast Bulls	32	Dublin Dragons	6
11.06.2006	North Dublin Marshals	32	DCU Saints	44
	Week 12
18.06.2006	Carrickfergus Knights	24	Belfast Bulls	12
18.06.2006	Cork Admirals	6	Dublin Rebels	20
	Week 13
25.06.2006	North Dublin Marshals	0	Dublin Rebels	30
25.06.2006	Belfast Bulls	58	DCU Saints	0
	Week 14
02.07.2006	Carrickfergus Knights	30	North Dublin Marshals	0
02.07.2006	Dublin Dragons	25	DCU Saints	8
	Week 15
09.07.2006	Dublin Rebels	41	Belfast Bulls	0
	Week 16
16.07.2006	DCU Saints	6	Cork Admirals	28
16.07.2006	Dublin Rebels	46	Dublin Dragons	12
	Week 17
23.07.2006	Dublin Dragons	7	Carrickfergus Knights	13
23.07.2006	Cork Admirals	42	Belfast Bulls	0

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2 Pts Win / 1 Pts Tie / 0 Loss

Home Venues

Team	Home Venue
Belfast Bulls	Victoria Park, Belfast City
Carrickfergus Knights	Woodburn Road, Carrickfergus
Cork Admirals	Pfizers Sports Club, Ringaskiddy, Co. Cork
DCU Saints	ALSAA, Old Airport Road, Dublin Airport
Dublin City Marshals	Iveagh Grounds, Crumlin, Dublin City
Dublin Dragons	Lucan Community Centre, Lucan, Co. Dublin
Dublin Rebels	Sportslink, Santry, Dublin
University of Limerick Vikings	UL Sports Grounds, Limerick City

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Report

The 2006 Irish American Football League season featured 8 teams, an increase of two on the previous seson with the addition of the North Dublin Marshals and DCU Saints – the most since the first full season in 1987.

Dublin Rebels showed why they were the top Irish side, going through the season undefeated, winning both their Semi-Final and Shamrock Bowl by a wide margin. Second place in the League was a tussle between the Carrickfergus Knights, who finished 6-2 and UL Vikings, finishing on 5-2-1, and when these two sides met in the Semi_Finals, it was UL who came out on top in a close encounter, winning 30-25. They were no match for the Rebels, however, losing 44-12 in the Shamrock Bowl.

The fourth playoff spot went to Cork Admirals, on a 4-3-1 record, but despite putting up a great offensive display in the Semi-Finals against the Dublin Rebels, their defense had no answer to the Rebels firepower, as they went down 58-22.

The bottom half of the table saw the Dublin Dragons and Belfast Trojans finish on .375, with the Dragons scoring an unusual two ties. The DCU Saints and North Dublin Marshals managed one win each in their inaugural seasons.

The story of the year, however, was undoubtedly the Rebels fine display all season, with no team proving a match for them on the field, and their 32-point margin of victory in the Shamrock Bowl was the fourth-highest ever, after the lop-sided Carrickfergus win over UL Vikings in 2002 (66-0) and two 40+ point victories for the Dublin Celts in the early 1990s.

References

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Websites

[2] Irish American Football Association (2006) 2006 LEAGUE TABLE, FIXTURES & RESULTS [Internet] Available from: http://www.americanfootball.ie/iafl/2006results.htm [Accessed 24 September 2016]

[3] Irish American Football Association (2018) Shamrock Bowl History [Internet] Available from: http://www.americanfootball.ie/american-football/shamrock-bowl-history/ [Accessed 16 April 2018]

Images

[1] Irish American Football Association (2003) IAFL Logo [Internet] Available from: http://americanfootball.ie/iafl/images/logo.gif [Accessed 11 December 2017]

[4] Dublin Dragons | Wayback Machine (2007) Shamrock Bowl XX Logo [Internet] Available from: http://web.archive.org/web/20071117040541im_/http://www.dublindragons.com/e107/e107_images/2006/sbxxlogo.jpg [Accessed 11 November 2019]

[5] Dublin Dragons | Wayback Machine (2007) Dublin Rebels v UL Vikings – Shamrock Bowl XX [Internet] Available from: http://web.archive.org/web/20071117040541im_/http://www.dublindragons.com/e107/e107_images/2006/Pic14.jpg [Accessed 11 November 2019]

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Tim Leadingham, Tallaght Outlaws.

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