mildlyinterested wrote:Dundalk 1 wrote:mildlyinterested wrote:So is there anyone with some knowledge of the situation?
The rule states 2 non Europeans maximum but does not define what it means by European
Presumably after a player is eligible to play for the international team he counts as European
It may be similar as a designated project player
At a quick perusal of other Irish teams our 3 in 23 is a pretty low ratio
Gibson Park and Lowe are project players
South Africans and Pacific Islanders are considered European.. Australians and new Zealanders are not.
JGP - NZer
Lowe - Nzer
Fardy - Ozzie
This is from an Indo article around the time the IRFU were putting their NIE rules in place
Other EU cases, such as the recent Zambrano case, in which it was decided that an EU member state may not refuse the non-EU parents of a dependent child who is a citizen of, and resident in, an EU member state the right to live and work in that member state, should also be added to the mix. A number of foreign rugby superstars currently plying their trade on this island have Irish, and therefore, EU-citizen children. Leinster's Isa Nacewa, for example, whose contract expires this summer, falls into this category.
Maybe we know now why Fardy now has an EU citizen in the family