Ray Treacy Rovers fans when his penalty against Sligo helped win the FAI Cup in 1978. Treacy almost scored a hat trick for the Republic of Ireland national football team against Turkey in April 1978. The two goals he scored (along with the game's opening goal by Johnny Giles) represent the last occasion that a home-based player has scored for the senior Irish national team until 40 years later when in June 2018, Graham Burke, also a Shamrock Rovers player, scored against the United States. Treacy represented the League of Ireland in a friendly against Argentina in the Boca Junior Stadium in
Seán Treacy to Cork — and two returns." As the train steamed across the Tipperary border and into Co Limerick the IRA party, led by Treacy, boarded the train in Knocklong. A close-range struggle ensued on the train. Treacy and Breen were seriously wounded in the gunfight. Two RIC men died, but Hogan was rescued. His rescuers rushed him into the village of Knocklong where a butcher's wife slammed down the shutters to hide them and her husband cut off his handcuffs using a cleaver. A search for Treacy and others was mounted across Ireland. Treacy left Tipperary for Dublin to avoid