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7 Cheap And Easy To Make Irish Sporting Halloween Costumes

7 Cheap And Easy To Make Irish Sporting Halloween Costumes
Donny Mahoney
By Donny Mahoney
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Halloween is here and you're freaking out because you don't have a decent idea for a costume for the 10th year running. Relax! Balls has you covered. Here's 7 easy-to-make, highly affordable Irish sporting Halloween costumes that will make you the talk of any party and win you praise on social media.

And if you're heading out on the town with an Irish sports costume, share your photos with us --- we've got a great prize for the winner.

 

Behold - Irish Sporting Halloween Costumes

Horse from the Euros

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  • Horse mask (€20 from a costume shop)
  • Ireland jersey (you already one)
  • Shorts (you already have)
  • Football (you already have one)

Total cost: €20

Sexy Diarmuid Connolly

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A GAA riff on the times 'Sexy' halloween costume genre. Dermo has been sporting a plunging neckline in matches a lot lately so no better time to give him a 'sexy' makeover

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Requirements

  • Dubs/Vincent's jersey (€35)
  • Pair of scissors to cut the front of the jersey off (check your stationary supply)
  • Sexiness (you've either got it or you don't)

Total Cost: €35

Zombie Willie Joe Padden

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Show your love for the green and red by zombiefying the ultimate Mayo cult hero.

Requirements

  • Headband (free - use an old undershirt or fake blood)
  • Vintage Mayo jersey (you already own this if you're considering being Willie Joe Padden)
  • Fake blood (€5)

Total Cost: €5

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Pre-fame Conor McGregor

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Put your Dublin slang and plumbing gear to work

Requirements:

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  • Boiler suit (€20 from a work wear shop)
  • Plunger (free, check your toilet)
  • Magic markers to draw gorilla tattoo on your chest (€10)

Total cost: €50

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"Ireland's Greatest Olympian"

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A great costume idea for women, especially redheads

  • Four medals (€5)
  • Ginger wig (€25)
  • Green bathing suit (€15)
  • Bottle of whiskey (check your booze closet)
  • Letter of recommendation from Jimmy Magee (hard to quantify)

Total cost: €45

Yellow Cap Guy from USA '94

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For those who "exist nowhere in the firmament of international football"

Requirements:

  • One canary yellow baseball cap (€5)
  • One blue blazer (€10)
  • One pair of Tom Kite glasses (€5)
  • One John Aldridge lookalike, ideally irate (difficult to quantify)

Total cost: €20

Pat Hickey at his hotel

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First class plane tickets optional.

Requirements:

  • White bathrobe (€20)

Total cost: €20

 

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