Ethnic minority internationals

**Charlie Darwin** · 07/07/2010, 1:35 AM

Podolski and Klose are slightly different - their German identity is the result of a border issue not unlike the one we have with the North.

Interestingly both of their mothers were internationals for Poland in handball.

**seanfhear** · 07/07/2010, 6:24 AM

Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin

Podolski and Klose are slightly different - their German identity is the result of a border issue not unlike the one we have with the North.

Interestingly both of their mothers were internationals for Poland in handball.

Could young Irish men start dating Polish international female hand ballers please ! !

It would be nice if we could get some Protestant footballers from Northern Ireland (would they be an ethnic minority on the whole Island) to play for us

All are welcome, come and strut your stuff at the new Landsdowne road.

**bennocelt** · 07/07/2010, 12:28 PM

Originally Posted by seanfhear

Could young Irish men start dating Polish international female hand ballers please ! !

It would be nice if we could get some Protestant footballers from Northern Ireland (would they be an ethnic minority on the whole Island) to play for us

All are welcome, come and strut your stuff at the new Landsdowne road.

Alan Kernaghan, or am I wrong?

**seanfhear** · 07/07/2010, 3:15 PM

Originally Posted by bennocelt

Alan Kernaghan, or am I wrong?

I believe you are correct but we could do with more.

**irishfan86** · 07/07/2010, 9:34 PM

Lads, start sleeping with northern protestants immediately. Only one way to make one team in Ireland....

**Crosby87** · 08/07/2010, 10:35 PM

Dr Peepee needs to create a love potion.

**mark12345** · 08/07/2010, 10:46 PM

I was born in a test tube and me mother ran off with a bottle of nose drops. Do I qualify?

**Supreme feet** · 09/07/2010, 7:09 AM

Originally Posted by irishfan86

Lads, start sleeping with northern protestants immediately. Only one way to make one team in Ireland....

I've attempted this before. Unfortunately, I've often been faced with the age-old truism; 'Ulster Says No'.

**ArdeeBhoy** · 09/07/2010, 11:51 PM

Surely you mean 6 Counties? And around 52% thereof.

**irishultra** · 14/07/2010, 1:35 PM

Originally Posted by Predator

It certainly would be interesting if we had a few Irish internationals, like German internationals Lukas Podolski or Miroslav Klose; players who were born in a different country and whose parents were not Irish, but who had moved to Ireland at a young age and gained nationality.

we do darren gibson and shane duffy. klose is like an ethnic german and his dad considers him to not be polish or german but the ethnic group he belongs to and european