Players eligible for Ireland

Interesting article alright. The wording suggests it's a player who is playing underage for Ireland still, so possibly not Ferguson, but who knows.

The key thing for Ireland here is to identify Irish eligible players and get them their Irish passport at as young an age as possible. This is beneficial for Ireland because in terms of the rules it means that granny rulers that go on to play underage for England (or another country) aren't then tied by playing underage for that country after their 21st birthday. Then for the 95% of them that don't make it to the England senior team, they're still eligible for Ireland.

But it's also beneficial to the player as a contract negotiation tool with clubs as explained in the article. So it's a win/win for everyone involved.

Actually playing for Ireland at underage is almost secondary to having the passport at an early age in it's importance to us in terms of securing dual nationality senior players at this point.

Fair play to him if it was him, as a lad born in England.

Quality little player but considering he’s only just dropped his father’s name to change it to Gore a couple of years ago at 16 suggests he might not be following his father. 

Jason qualified through a granda from Down (I think) - does the eligibility extend to great grandparents?