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-  Dual Internationals  - - Irish -  Other Nations -  Opposition   - While there are a long list of players who have played for (Northern) Ireland and another country, there are also two players known to have played in full internationals against us for two different teams... Bobby Evans (Wales & England) Bobby Evans' international selections have parallels with Jack Reynolds , who played for both Ireland and England in the final decade of the 19th Century. Evans was born to Welsh parents in Cheshire (in England, near the border with Wales). It was Wales that got hold of him first, and he was capped 10 times between 1906 and 1910 while playing for Wrexham, Aston Villa and Sheffield United. When his English birth was discovered the FA selected him and he took to the field in the white of England to face Ireland, ten months to the day since he had faced the same opposition in Welsh red - those two matches brought his only international goals. He won a total ...

Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo scored a second half hattrick against Northern Ireland at Windsor Park in 2013 There have been 53 hat-tricks, by 50 different players, scored against (Northern) Ireland since 1882. While of course the names of Law, Greaves, Bierhoff and Ronaldo are world renowned and their feats will live long in the history books, a match against Ireland, particularly in the early days, presented opportunities for some players to shine brightly on the international stage, if only briefly (three different Scotsmen scored four against Ireland while winning their one-and-only cap!). Of course, as with many historical football statistics, and goalscorers in particular, who scored and when can remain a point of conjecture. Such things were often recorded by journalists, sitting a hundred yards away, on an ad-hoc basis and without the aid of TV replays or other modern technology. The fact is, there may have been more (or less) hat-tricks scored against Ireland than those l...