Last night on Off The Ball, football writer Miguel Delaney spoke to us about an interview he recently conducted with Tottenham and soon-to-be England debutant Harry Kane.
The 2014-15 scoring sensation has a father from Galway as he confirmed to Delaney, but the option of playing for the Boys in Green never came into consideration for him.
Closer to home, there is one Galway man in the Republic of Ireland squad to face Poland in the upcoming Euro 2016 qualifier.
Certainly, more counties have seen their players called up for Ireland since the Jack Charlton era when the bulk of the squad was drawn from players raised in the UK as well as a contingent from Dublin.
Let's take a look at how things have changed from 1990 to today domestically, even if many gaps remain across the island.
In a way, it almost tallies with the garrison structure of the League of Ireland which I looked at for Team 33 recently.
World Cup 1990
Dublin 6, Donegal 1, Louth 1
World Cup 1994
Dublin 3, Louth 2, Cork 2, Donegal 1
World Cup 2002
Dublin 6, Louth 3, Donegal 1, Cork 1
Euro 2012
Dublin 8, Waterford 2, Derry 2, Donegal 1, Wexford 1, Wicklow 1, Tipperary 1, Galway 1
Current squad to face Poland
Dublin 8, Donegal 2, Waterford 2, Derry 2, Cork 1, Wexford 1, Galway 1, Wicklow 1, Antrim 1, Tipperary 1
