All Ireland Polo Club
The Phoenix Park polo ground where the Argentine ambassador hosts the annual Cup of the Argentine Republic.
- Kind
- Club ground
- Where
- Dublin · Ireland
- On the globe
- 53.36° N, 6.31° W · Coordinates from OpenStreetMap · See it on the globe
Visiting
Visiting: Not confirmedas of 12 October 2018
The ground hosted the Cup of the Argentine Republic in September 2018; no later finding describes access.
Source: Kim Mullahey, Polo: victory for Buenos Aires Ireland at AIPC, The Irish Field, 12 Oct 2018, 12 October 2018(opens in a new tab)The All Ireland Polo Club plays in the Phoenix Park, Dublin. It hosts the Cup of the Argentine Republic, an annual match hosted by Argentina's ambassador. The Irish Field reported that the 11th edition, in September 2018, was won by a team called "Buenos Aires Ireland" over "Cordoba Argentina". The same paper dates Europe's first polo match to Co. Carlow in 1872.
The link runs in both directions. In 2021 Siobhan Herbst of Wicklow and April Kent of Laois were fundraising to take the first Irish ladies' team to the Ladies Polo Open in Buenos Aires; whether they played is unconfirmed. The research found no report of the cup after 2018, so whether it continues each year is unconfirmed, and it does not record the club's visiting arrangements.