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Joe McCarthy casts his eye over the Irish players across the water.
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Sam Foley scored his first goal of the season, this was the midfielder’s first goal in more than a year – he last scored on Saturday, 5 March 2016 against Colchester
Damien Delaney’s appearance off the bench (his first appearance since February 11th) was his 25th appearance of the season
Jonathan Walters scored his first goal of 2017, 81 days after his last goal on December 27th
John O’Shea, Darron Gibson, Jeff Hendrick and Stephen Ward started this game, making it the first Premier League game this season where four Irish players started the same game
For O’Shea, it was his 200th start for Sunderland
Darren Randolph made his 25th Premier League appearance
Aiden McGeady marked his 25th start for Preston North End with his fifth goal for the club. This was also his fifth goal of the season, the first time the midfielder had managed this since 2012-13 with Spartak Moscow
Conor Hourihane was booked for the tenth time this season
Brendan Moloney late second half introduction from the bench was his first appearance since November
Rory Gaffney scored his 15th goal for the Bristol Rovers in his 25th start of the season
Stephen Dawson made his 150th appearance in League One
Paddy Madden’s 70th goal in League One was also his 50th league goal for Scunthorpe
Conrad Logan returned to the Rochdale starting XI for his first appearance since January 28th
Alan Sheehan’s yellow card against Exeter was the defender’s fifth booking of the season
Graham Carey’s winner was his 25th goal for Plymouth
Noel Hunt made his first start of 2017
Eoin Doyle made his 150th start since leaving the League of Ireland
Jonathan Hayes’ goal was his first strike in a month
Joe Shaughnessy made his 150th career appearance
Adam Barton made his 25th appearance for Partick Thistle
Conor Sammon scored his fifth goal of the season
Willo Flood made his 25th appearance in the Scottish Championship
Mark Yeates was sent off for the first time in his career
Kevin Doyle made his 50th appearance for Colorado Rapids
