Stan Flaherty (20, attacking midfielder) has just moved from Newcastle Utd to QPR on a contract to the end of the season. Stats for 2020/21: PL2 1,710 mins played, 7 goals, 3 assists.
Seems to have been inactive this season, maybe injured? Transfermarkt shows him as English and Irish.
Not sure if he has a thread or not but according to Crawford today, Taylor Gardner Hickman is a generation too far back to qualify for us. Seems the family weren't sure themselves & it came down to paperwork ( or lack of )
It has been done to death before I realise but how Irish can the guy possibly feel when the family link isn't even known within his family.
Find it odd not knowing where your grandparents were born? Was always confused about how Aldridge qualified via a great grand parent. My daughter is UK born but is an Irish citizen, her offspring will qualify via a grandparent, but if they become citizens before they become parents will their offspring be eligible for citizenship?
Aldridge was actually a grandparent afaik- it’s that his mother was adopted and her adoptive parents were irish but her birth parents weren’t. Going back a gen further he was irish through birth - but it was clarified that having an adoptive grandparent in those circumstances was sufficient
Actually maybe the was Cas - sorry
Here's some background on Aldridge. Definitely references a great grandparernt.
https://group.irishecho.com/2011/02/...-in-dispute-2/
Think Aldo had a grandparent that was Irish, but he said that he always had a huge affinity with Ireland. From knowing Liverpool the way I do, they don’t feel English at all and generally embrace their Irish roots which a strong majority of them have. I lived all over the UK and Liverpool was the only place I ever felt like home.
Separately Sonny Perkins, an up and comer with West Ham is eligible. If anyone has a contact in the FAI, would be great to let them know. He’s a current England youth international but could be worth asking him. His dad played with us.
CJ Egan-Reilly starting for Man City in the champions league tonight…
Eligible apparently
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CJ_Egan-Riley
Aldridge I believe qualified through a great grandparent but declared for us shortly before FIFA tightened the rules in the mid 1980s. Eligibility was a bit of a free for all before that, you just needed to be able to prove some lineage so great grandparents were fine. Once FIFA formalised it the line was drawn at grandparents and if Aldridge had tried to declare after that he would have been deemed ineligible.
Regarding your other query - your great grandchildren will be eligible for an Irish passport as long as your grandchildren formalise their Irish citizenship before they give birth to your great grandchildren. However (under current rules) your great grandchildren, although they would be Irish citizens, would not be eligible to play football for Ireland (unless they had an Irish parent or grandparent).
We're hardly short of keepers, but I notice that when Keiren Westwood became the 5th(!!) QPR keeper to be injured (in this case, during the warm up this p.m.), Rangers turned to a 20 year-old Murphy Mahoney :-) Must have an Irish grand-dad, surely?
Harry Halwax is there as well, but I think he's only on an academy contract
https://www.belfastlive.co.uk/sport/...being-23581880
Very good player, very unlucky with injuries. Lots of talented wingers in 2003 - it's probably the position which it is most stacked, that combined with injuries and 2 years of no international football for his age group due to covid have probably halted Harkin's progress. Still, would be a real shame to lose him.
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