Amateur Internationals
In addition to full internationals, a number of FAI XI internationals also represented the IFA XI at amateur level. In 1931 Fred Horlacher and Jimmy Bermingham both played for an IFA Amateur XI in a 3-1 win against England Amateurs. They played against the wishes of the FAI and were subsequently suspended by the association for three months. Bermingham, who had made his only FAI appearance in 1929, was never capped again, but Horlacher became a regular international during the 1930s
| Name | IFA Amateur XI | FAI XI | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Years | Apps | Goals | Years | Apps | Goals | |
| Jack McCarthy | 1921 | 2 | 0 | 1924–1930 | 6 | 0 |
| Fred Horlacher | 1931 | 1 | ? | 1930–1936 | 7 | 2 |
| Jimmy Bermingham | 1931 | 1 | ? | 1929 | 1 | 0 |
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“The true gardener then brushes over the ground with slow and gentle hand, to liberate a space for breath round some favourite; but he is not thinking about destruction except incidentally. It is only the amateur like myself who becomes obsessed and rejoices with a sadistic pleasure in weeds that are big and bad enough to pull, and at last, almost forgetting the flowers altogether, turns into a Reformer.”
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