IT has taken them 97 years to do it, but today Team Ireland made history when winning the Intesa Sanpaolo Nations Cup at the CSIO Rome - Piazza di Siena for the very first time at the 90th anniversary edition.

The Rome title is one of the most prestigious and one of the oldest in the world, so it is one the Irish have always wanted but it has evaded them ever since it was first staged back in 1926.