Pretty sure it was Pat Byrne under Charlton (c. '86).
I know this topic has been asked on here before but I never actually got the answer.
Leaving aside the likes Jason Byrne, Glen Crowe, Joe Gamble etc, who actually was the last LOI player to win a cap for Ireland in a competitive game, as in a Euro or W. Cup qualifier?
Did it happen in the 80’s or would you have to go back to the 70’s?
Can anyone say who the second last player was to win a full competitive cap?
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Pretty sure it was Pat Byrne under Charlton (c. '86).
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Would go along with that.
Second last (in a competitive game) I think was another Rovers player, Jacko McDonagh in about 1983, the game they battered Malta.
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Last LOI Player to play in a competitive match was Pat Byrne as stated above, on the 13th November 1985 against Denmark (4-1 loss) at Landsowne Road. Came on as a sub after 30 mins. I can't think of another country that has almost a 30 year gap since a player from their domestic league last took part in a competitive match.
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I think that’s my earliest memory of an Ireland game and if I remember correctly, I actually thought it was 5-1 with Liam Brady scoring the only goal.
Have to say its disappointing to read, but even a league one player will nearly always get picked ahead of a LOI player. I seem to remember Tony Sheridan making the bench for some competitive game but I could be wrong.
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Stephen Geoghegan was called up twice, according to his Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Geoghegan
A 2009 article in the Herald also mentions two call-ups: http://www.herald.ie/sport/soccer/ju...-27916561.html
One of those games was away to Macedonia under McCarthy in 1996/97: http://homepage.tinet.ie/~fintanod/s...geoghegan.html and http://www.independent.ie/sport/socc...-26716332.html
This page claims he was in the 1999 squad to play Macedonia: http://www.geoghegan.org/clan/hall.html
I'm not sure what the second game was, but that 1999 claim is surely a mix-up? It'd be an unusual coincidence to have your only two call-ups against the same team and two years apart. Can anyone shed any light on his mysterious second call-up?
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Was there a LoI player in the squad when we won 1-0 in Tilburg just before the 1994 World Cup? Had a notion it might have been Geoghegan.
Indeed, you're correct. Geoghegan was on the bench in Tilburg: http://www.independent.ie/sport/socc...-26088457.html
Charlton capped three in his first few games afaik. Probably mostly friendlies though. A Bohs centre half anyone? Murphy maybe?
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Pat Byrne (rovers) played against Wales in March 1986 (Charlton's 1st game)
Barry Murphy (Bohs), Liam O'Brien (Rovers) and Peter Eccles (Rovers) played against Uruguay in April
Pat Byrne played in the Icelandic tournament against Iceland and Czechoslovakia in May.
Then nothing until Glen Crowe, then Jason Byrne, then Joe Gamble
That's it for the last 29 years
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Didn't Alan Bennett get capped at Cork?
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Gamble was a City player when he was capped
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