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Even Justin Bieber is talking about Ireland's win over world champions Germany

The Irish team celebrated by listening to Justin Bieber – and he was loving it.

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FROM THE SUBLIME to the ridiculous…

Yes, that happened last night. Ireland beat world champions Germany in an all-important Euro 2016 qualifying game.

Play-off secured, Shane Long’s 71st minute dream goal also gives the Boys in Green a serious chance to secure automatic entry to the competition in France next year.

As The42.ie’s Niall Kelly wrote, we never thought this would be the scenario we would be waking up to this morning.

To dream the impossible dream, to fight the unbeatable foe.

But that’s where we are. And things have just got even weirder.

Of all the celebrities celebrating this morning – One Direction’s Niall Horan, Bressie, Dustin the Turkey – there was one Canadian singer that took us by surprise.

We can’t verify that this is, in fact, the Irish squad bus. But, as we said, from the sublime to the ridiculous…

Bring on Sunday.

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