After seeing all that stuff about that German lad playing underage footbal for ireland a myself and few mates were in the pub talking about other foreign lads who had played for ireland (as u do) and i seem to rememeber a guy named simon harlow(could be wrong) who played for sampadoria who was the son of a an irish father and a jordanian mother and played underage ball for ireland - now am i imagining this or was it true? plus is there any other foreign (as in non british) imports on their way up the irish international ladder?
Not an import as he lives and was raised in Ireland, but there's young Eammon Zayed who plays for the U-20's and with Bray Wanderers who's dad is Tunisian.
There's a mention of Simon Harlow playing for the Ireland U-18's back in 1998 at the link below, but no mention of his parentage. archives.tcm.ie/irishexaminer/1998/03/05/phead.htm I wonder whatever happened to him?