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
Ray Treacy Ray Treacy Raymond Christopher Patrick Treacy (18 June 1946 – 10 April 2015), was an Irish professional footballer. He played 42 times (scoring 5 goals) for the Republic of Ireland national football team between 1966 and 1980. Treacy played 3 times scoring twice whilst at Milltown. He made his international debut on 4 May 1966 in a 4–0 defeat against West Germany, his last was against Czechoslovakia in 1980. He played in the first ever Republic of Ireland U23 game in 1966. As a youth Treacy played with Home Farm F.C.. He made 5 first team appearances for West Bromwich