Raymond Christopher Patrick Treacy (18 June 1946 – 10 April 2015), was an Irish professional footballer.

Playing career

He played 42 times (scoring 5 goals) for the

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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

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in 1980. He played in the first ever Republic of Ireland U23 game in 1966. As a youth Treacy played with Home Farm. He made 5 first team appearances for

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, scoring one goal, before joining

Charlton Athletic Charlton Athletic Football Club is an English professional football club based in Charlton, south-east London, which compete in . Their home ground is The Valley, where the club have played since 1919. They have also played at The Mount in C ...

in February 1968. Later moving to join

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(on loan). He agreed terms with

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in August 1976 but didn't sign for them, instead returning to

where he finished his English career. In 290 league appearances he scored 78 goals. He then joined the

Shamrock Rovers Shamrock Rovers Football Club ( ga, Cumann Peile Ruagairí na Seamróige) is an Irish association football club based in Tallaght, South Dublin. The club's senior team competes in the League of Ireland Premier Division and it is the most su ...

in 1977 under

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and in three seasons at Milltown he scored 35 league goals from the 71 games he played in. He made 3 appearances in European competitions, but was most prominently remembered by Rovers fans when his penalty against Sligo helped win the

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in 1978. Treacy almost scored a hat trick for the

against Turkey in April 1978. The two goals he scored (along with the game's opening goal by Johnny Giles) represented the last occasion that a home-based player had scored for the senior Irish national team until 40 years later when in June 2018,

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, also a Shamrock Rovers player, scored against the

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. Treacy represented the League of Ireland in a friendly against Argentina in the Boca Junior Stadium in April 1978. In all he earned two Inter League caps during his spell at Milltown. In April 1979 Treacy was sent off after coming on as a substitute for the

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against Italian League B.

Management career

He was player/manager at

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for two seasons from 1980 scoring 11 goals resigning on 19 December 1982. He then managed Home Farm. He was granted a testimonial against the full national side in May 1989. Controversially he was one of the backers behind the baffling move to install "Dublin City" into the Scottish Second Division in January 1990 despite managing in the

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at the same time. He resigned from the Farm in September 1990. He returned to Rovers as manager in January 1992 and won the title in the 1993–94 season, but the team was beaten 7–0 by

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in the following season's

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. In October 2009 he retired from his travel business. He died after a short illness in 2015.

Honours

Player

;

** 1978

Manager

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** 1993–94

References

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