1987 International Rules series
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The 1987 International Rules series took place in Ireland
Ireland
Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...

 and consisted of three Test matches between the Australian and Irish
Ireland international rules football team
The Ireland International rules football team is the representative team for Ireland in international rules football, a compromise between Gaelic football and Australian rules football...

 international rules football
International rules football
International rules football is a team sport consisting of a hybrid of football codes, which was developed to facilitate international representative matches between Australian rules football players and Gaelic football players....

 teams.

Summary

1st Test

Venue: Croke Park
Croke Park
Croke Park in Dublin is the principal stadium and headquarters of the Gaelic Athletic Association , Ireland's biggest sporting organisation...

, Dublin 

Crowd: 15,532
Team Score
  Ireland
Ireland international rules football team
The Ireland International rules football team is the representative team for Ireland in international rules football, a compromise between Gaelic football and Australian rules football...

3-7-14 (53)
  Australia  1-11-12 (51)

Australia Ireland
Bruce Abernethy
Bruce Abernethy
Bruce Abernethy is a former Australian rules footballer in the SANFL, VFL/AFL and current media personality.-Football career:...

 
Andrew Bews
Andrew Bews
Andrew Bews is a former Australian rules footballer who played 282 VFL/AFL games during the 1980s and 90s.Debuting in 1981 after being recruited from North Geelong, Bews played over 200 games for Geelong. A tagger, he earned All Australian selection in 1987.Bews moved to Brisbane in 1994 to play...

 
Peter Bubner
Matthew Campbell 
Peter Foster
Peter Foster (Australian rules footballer)
Peter Foster is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Footscray in the VFL.A key position player, Foster finished equal 5th in the 1988 Brownlow Medal and won Footscray's best and fairest award in 1990.-External links:...

 
Danny Frawley
Danny Frawley
Danny Frawley is a former Australian rules footballer and coach and a current football commentator with Fox Sports.He is the nephew of Collingwood player Des Tuddenham and the uncle of current Melbourne Football Club player James Frawley.- Football career :Recruited from Ballarat, after attending...

 
Andrew Jarman
Andrew Jarman
Andrew Newton Jarman is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Adelaide in the Australian Football League...

 
Chris Lewis
Chris Lewis (Australian rules footballer)
Christoper Lockley "Chris" Lewis is a former Australian rules footballer who played over 200 AFL senior games for the West Coast Eagles....

 
Bruce Lindner
Bruce Lindner
Bruce Norman Lindner is a former Australian Rules footballer who played for Geelong and Adelaide in the AFL and for West Adelaide in the SANFL.-SANFL Career:...

 
Bruce Lindsay
Bruce Lindsay (footballer)
Bruce A. Lindsay is a former Australian rules footballer who played for West Torrens in the South Australian National Football League and Adelaide in the Australian Football League ....

 
Steve Malaxos
Steve Malaxos
Stephen "Steve" Malaxos is a former Australian rules footballer and coach from Western Australia. While playing for Claremont in the WAFL, he won the 1984 Sandover Medal. Malaxos was an All-Australian with Claremont in 1986 and while he was with the West Coast Eagles in 1988...

 
Tony McGuinness 
Michael Mitchell 
Richard Osborne
Richard Osborne
Richard Osborne is a former Australian rules footballer who enjoyed a lengthy career in the VFL/AFL. He played a total of 283 games in 17 seasons, and played with four different clubs, as well as representing Victoria 7 times in interstate competition.Originally from Bulleen/Templestowe, he...

 
Gary Pert
Gary Pert
Gary Pert is a former Australian rules footballer in the VFL/AFL and businessman. Gary is the son of Brian Pert.-Fitzroy career:Pert was recruited from Bulleen to Fitzroy and made his debut for the Fitzroy Football Club in 1982...

 
Paul Roos
Paul Roos (Australian rules footballer)
Paul Roos is a former Australian rules football player and coach in the VFL and Australian Football League.Playing the majority of his career with Fitzroy, Roos was one of the teams greats, captaining the side for a long time and was acknowledged as its best player for several seasons, being named...

 
Brian Royal
Brian Royal
Brian Royal is a former Australian rules footballer, who played for the Western Bulldogs and is currently an assistant coach for the Melbourne Football Club....

 
Scott Salisbury
Scott Salisbury
Scott Salisbury is a former Australian rules footballer who played over 200 games for Glenelg in the South Australian National Football League during the 1980s and 1990s....

 
Jim Stynes
Jim Stynes
James "Jim" Stynes OAM is an Irish former professional Australian rules footballer who is currently a businessman, philanthropist, writer, youth worker, qualified teacher and chairman of Melbourne Football Club since 2008....

 
Phillip Walsh
Phillip Walsh
Phillip Walsh is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Collingwood, Richmond and the Brisbane Bears in the VFL during the 1980s....

Greg Blaney
Greg Blaney
Greg Blaney is an Irish former dual GAA player who played Gaelic football and hurling for Down in the 1980s and 1990s. He is chiefly remember as a footballer. He was part of the Down team that won the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship in 1991 and 1994. Blaney also won three Ulster Senior...

 
Val Daly
Val Daly
Val Daly is a former inter-county footballer for GalwayOriginally from Mountbellew, Daly made his debut with the county side in the 1981 National League and played up until the 1997 Championship season when he was player manager....

 
Kieran Duff
Kieran Duff
Kieran Duff is a former Gaelic football player with Dublin and Fingallians.-Playing career:Duff won the all-Ireland with Dublin in 1983. Kieran has won two All Stars in 1987 and 1988. He won two NFL medals for Dublin in 1987 and in 1991....

 
Paul Earley
Paul Earley
Paul Earley is a former Irish sportsman who played Australian rules football for Melbourne in the Victorian Football League and Gaelic football for Roscommon GAA....

 
Mick Fagan
Liam Hayes
Ger Lynch
Mick Lyons
Mick Lyons (Gaelic footballer)
Mick Lyons is a former Gaelic footballer who played for Summerhill and Meath. He won two All Ireland medals with Meath in 1987 and 1988 and has also won two All Star awards. He won the Meath Senior Football Championship with Summerhill in 1986. He has generally played at the full-back position...

 
Brian McGilligan
Brian McGilligan
Brian McGilligan is a former dual GAA player, who is most notable for being a Gaelic footballer for the Derry senior football team in the 1980s and 1990s, especially the 1993 team. He was part of Derry's 1993 All-Ireland Championship winning side and also won two Ulster Championships with the side...

 
Seamus McHugh
Dermot McNicholl
Dermot McNicholl
Dermot "Spoofer" McNicholl , from Glenullin, is an All Star winning former Irish Gaelic footballer who played for Derry in the 1980s and 1990s. He was part of Derry's 1993 All-Ireland Championship winning side, also winning Ulster Senior Football Championships in 1987 and 1993. He usually played in...

 
Ciarán Murray
Ciarán Murray
Ciarán Murray was a former Gaelic football player for Monaghan.-Playing career:Murray helped Monaghan to victory in the 1984 National Football League Final defeating Armagh. He collected two Ulster Senior Football Championship medals in 1985, beating Derry and again in 1988, defeating Tyrone in...

 
Pat O'Byrne
John O'Leary
John O'Leary (Gaelic footballer)
John O'Leary is a Dublin-born Irish Gaelic footballer who played inter-county football for Dublin and club football for O'Dwyers. He is an area manager for Permanent TSB and has recently been a political candidate for Fianna Fáil in the constituency of Dublin North...

 
Robbie O'Malley 
Jim Reilly 
Noel Roche
B. Sex
Pat Spillane
Pat Spillane
Patrick Gerard Spillane , better known as Pat Spillane, is a retired Gaelic footballer and well known Irish sports pundit. He played Gaelic football with his local club Templenoe and was a member of the Kerry senior inter-county team from 1975 until 1991...

 
Tom Spillane
Tom Spillane
Tom Spillane was a famous Gaelic footballer for Templenoe and Kerry in the 1980s.Tom Spillane was born in Templenoe, near Kenmare, County Kerry in 1962. He was, along with his brother Pat, a key member of the successful Kerry Gaelic football teams of the 1980s...



2nd Test

Venue: Croke Park
Croke Park
Croke Park in Dublin is the principal stadium and headquarters of the Gaelic Athletic Association , Ireland's biggest sporting organisation...

, Dublin 

Crowd: 15,485
Team Score
  Australia 3-14-12 (72)
  Ireland
Ireland international rules football team
The Ireland International rules football team is the representative team for Ireland in international rules football, a compromise between Gaelic football and Australian rules football...

 
3-6-11 (47)

Australia Ireland
Bruce Abernethy
Bruce Abernethy
Bruce Abernethy is a former Australian rules footballer in the SANFL, VFL/AFL and current media personality.-Football career:...

 
Andrew Bews
Andrew Bews
Andrew Bews is a former Australian rules footballer who played 282 VFL/AFL games during the 1980s and 90s.Debuting in 1981 after being recruited from North Geelong, Bews played over 200 games for Geelong. A tagger, he earned All Australian selection in 1987.Bews moved to Brisbane in 1994 to play...

 
Matthew Campbell 
Peter Foster
Peter Foster (Australian rules footballer)
Peter Foster is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Footscray in the VFL.A key position player, Foster finished equal 5th in the 1988 Brownlow Medal and won Footscray's best and fairest award in 1990.-External links:...

 
Danny Frawley
Danny Frawley
Danny Frawley is a former Australian rules footballer and coach and a current football commentator with Fox Sports.He is the nephew of Collingwood player Des Tuddenham and the uncle of current Melbourne Football Club player James Frawley.- Football career :Recruited from Ballarat, after attending...

 
Ross Gibbs
Ross Gibbs
Ross Gibbs is a former Australian rules footballer who played for West Perth in the West Australian Football League and Glenelg in the South Australian National Football League ....

 
Darel Hart
Darel Hart
Darel Hart is a former Australian rules footballer who played in the South Australian National Football League and for Adelaide in the Australian Football League ....

 
Andrew Jarman
Andrew Jarman
Andrew Newton Jarman is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Adelaide in the Australian Football League...

 
Chris Lewis
Chris Lewis (Australian rules footballer)
Christoper Lockley "Chris" Lewis is a former Australian rules footballer who played over 200 AFL senior games for the West Coast Eagles....

 
Bruce Lindsay
Bruce Lindsay (footballer)
Bruce A. Lindsay is a former Australian rules footballer who played for West Torrens in the South Australian National Football League and Adelaide in the Australian Football League ....

 
Steve Malaxos
Steve Malaxos
Stephen "Steve" Malaxos is a former Australian rules footballer and coach from Western Australia. While playing for Claremont in the WAFL, he won the 1984 Sandover Medal. Malaxos was an All-Australian with Claremont in 1986 and while he was with the West Coast Eagles in 1988...

 
Tony McGuinness 
Michael Mitchell 
Richard Osborne
Richard Osborne
Richard Osborne is a former Australian rules footballer who enjoyed a lengthy career in the VFL/AFL. He played a total of 283 games in 17 seasons, and played with four different clubs, as well as representing Victoria 7 times in interstate competition.Originally from Bulleen/Templestowe, he...

 
Gary Pert
Gary Pert
Gary Pert is a former Australian rules footballer in the VFL/AFL and businessman. Gary is the son of Brian Pert.-Fitzroy career:Pert was recruited from Bulleen to Fitzroy and made his debut for the Fitzroy Football Club in 1982...

 
Paul Roos
Paul Roos (Australian rules footballer)
Paul Roos is a former Australian rules football player and coach in the VFL and Australian Football League.Playing the majority of his career with Fitzroy, Roos was one of the teams greats, captaining the side for a long time and was acknowledged as its best player for several seasons, being named...

 
Brian Royal
Brian Royal
Brian Royal is a former Australian rules footballer, who played for the Western Bulldogs and is currently an assistant coach for the Melbourne Football Club....

 
Scott Salisbury
Scott Salisbury
Scott Salisbury is a former Australian rules footballer who played over 200 games for Glenelg in the South Australian National Football League during the 1980s and 1990s....

 
Jim Stynes
Jim Stynes
James "Jim" Stynes OAM is an Irish former professional Australian rules footballer who is currently a businessman, philanthropist, writer, youth worker, qualified teacher and chairman of Melbourne Football Club since 2008....

 
Stephen Wright
Stephen Wright (Australian rules footballer)
Stephen Wright is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Sydney Swans during the 1980s and early 90s. He coached Highett Football Club in 2007 & 2008 in the Southern Football League....

Niall Cahalane
Niall Cahalane
Niall Cahalane is a former Irish sportsperson. He played senior football with Cork in the 1980s and 1990s.-Biography:...

 
Val Daly
Val Daly
Val Daly is a former inter-county footballer for GalwayOriginally from Mountbellew, Daly made his debut with the county side in the 1981 National League and played up until the 1997 Championship season when he was player manager....

 
Kieran Duff
Kieran Duff
Kieran Duff is a former Gaelic football player with Dublin and Fingallians.-Playing career:Duff won the all-Ireland with Dublin in 1983. Kieran has won two All Stars in 1987 and 1988. He won two NFL medals for Dublin in 1987 and in 1991....

 
Mick Fagan
Gerry Hargan
Gerry Hargan
Gerry Hargan is a former Gaelic football player for Dublin. Gerry made his debut for Dublin in the National Football League against Kerry in Tralee....

 
Liam Hayes
Ger Lynch
John Lynch 
Mick Lyons
Mick Lyons (Gaelic footballer)
Mick Lyons is a former Gaelic footballer who played for Summerhill and Meath. He won two All Ireland medals with Meath in 1987 and 1988 and has also won two All Star awards. He won the Meath Senior Football Championship with Summerhill in 1986. He has generally played at the full-back position...

 
Brian McGilligan
Brian McGilligan
Brian McGilligan is a former dual GAA player, who is most notable for being a Gaelic footballer for the Derry senior football team in the 1980s and 1990s, especially the 1993 team. He was part of Derry's 1993 All-Ireland Championship winning side and also won two Ulster Championships with the side...

 
Seamus McHugh
Dermot McNicholl
Dermot McNicholl
Dermot "Spoofer" McNicholl , from Glenullin, is an All Star winning former Irish Gaelic footballer who played for Derry in the 1980s and 1990s. He was part of Derry's 1993 All-Ireland Championship winning side, also winning Ulster Senior Football Championships in 1987 and 1993. He usually played in...

 
Ciarán Murray
Ciarán Murray
Ciarán Murray was a former Gaelic football player for Monaghan.-Playing career:Murray helped Monaghan to victory in the 1984 National Football League Final defeating Armagh. He collected two Ulster Senior Football Championship medals in 1985, beating Derry and again in 1988, defeating Tyrone in...

 
Pat O'Byrne
John O'Leary
John O'Leary (Gaelic footballer)
John O'Leary is a Dublin-born Irish Gaelic footballer who played inter-county football for Dublin and club football for O'Dwyers. He is an area manager for Permanent TSB and has recently been a political candidate for Fianna Fáil in the constituency of Dublin North...

 
Robbie O'Malley 
Jim Reilly 
Noel Roche
Pat Spillane
Pat Spillane
Patrick Gerard Spillane , better known as Pat Spillane, is a retired Gaelic footballer and well known Irish sports pundit. He played Gaelic football with his local club Templenoe and was a member of the Kerry senior inter-county team from 1975 until 1991...

 
Tom Spillane
Tom Spillane
Tom Spillane was a famous Gaelic footballer for Templenoe and Kerry in the 1980s.Tom Spillane was born in Templenoe, near Kenmare, County Kerry in 1962. He was, along with his brother Pat, a key member of the successful Kerry Gaelic football teams of the 1980s...

 


3rd Test

Venue: Croke Park
Croke Park
Croke Park in Dublin is the principal stadium and headquarters of the Gaelic Athletic Association , Ireland's biggest sporting organisation...

, Dublin 

Crowd: 27,023
Team Score
  Australia 0-14-17 (59)
  Ireland
Ireland international rules football team
The Ireland International rules football team is the representative team for Ireland in international rules football, a compromise between Gaelic football and Australian rules football...

 
1-13-10 (55)

Australia Ireland
Bruce Abernethy
Bruce Abernethy
Bruce Abernethy is a former Australian rules footballer in the SANFL, VFL/AFL and current media personality.-Football career:...

 
Andrew Bews
Andrew Bews
Andrew Bews is a former Australian rules footballer who played 282 VFL/AFL games during the 1980s and 90s.Debuting in 1981 after being recruited from North Geelong, Bews played over 200 games for Geelong. A tagger, he earned All Australian selection in 1987.Bews moved to Brisbane in 1994 to play...

 
Matthew Campbell 
Danny Frawley
Danny Frawley
Danny Frawley is a former Australian rules footballer and coach and a current football commentator with Fox Sports.He is the nephew of Collingwood player Des Tuddenham and the uncle of current Melbourne Football Club player James Frawley.- Football career :Recruited from Ballarat, after attending...

 
Darel Hart
Darel Hart
Darel Hart is a former Australian rules footballer who played in the South Australian National Football League and for Adelaide in the Australian Football League ....

 
Andrew Jarman
Andrew Jarman
Andrew Newton Jarman is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Adelaide in the Australian Football League...

 
Chris Lewis
Chris Lewis (Australian rules footballer)
Christoper Lockley "Chris" Lewis is a former Australian rules footballer who played over 200 AFL senior games for the West Coast Eagles....

 
Bruce Lindsay
Bruce Lindsay (footballer)
Bruce A. Lindsay is a former Australian rules footballer who played for West Torrens in the South Australian National Football League and Adelaide in the Australian Football League ....

 
Steve Malaxos
Steve Malaxos
Stephen "Steve" Malaxos is a former Australian rules footballer and coach from Western Australia. While playing for Claremont in the WAFL, he won the 1984 Sandover Medal. Malaxos was an All-Australian with Claremont in 1986 and while he was with the West Coast Eagles in 1988...

 
Tony McGuinness 
Michael Mitchell 
Richard Osborne
Richard Osborne
Richard Osborne is a former Australian rules footballer who enjoyed a lengthy career in the VFL/AFL. He played a total of 283 games in 17 seasons, and played with four different clubs, as well as representing Victoria 7 times in interstate competition.Originally from Bulleen/Templestowe, he...

 
David Pearce
Gary Pert
Gary Pert
Gary Pert is a former Australian rules footballer in the VFL/AFL and businessman. Gary is the son of Brian Pert.-Fitzroy career:Pert was recruited from Bulleen to Fitzroy and made his debut for the Fitzroy Football Club in 1982...

 
Paul Roos
Paul Roos (Australian rules footballer)
Paul Roos is a former Australian rules football player and coach in the VFL and Australian Football League.Playing the majority of his career with Fitzroy, Roos was one of the teams greats, captaining the side for a long time and was acknowledged as its best player for several seasons, being named...

 
Brian Royal
Brian Royal
Brian Royal is a former Australian rules footballer, who played for the Western Bulldogs and is currently an assistant coach for the Melbourne Football Club....

 
Scott Salisbury
Scott Salisbury
Scott Salisbury is a former Australian rules footballer who played over 200 games for Glenelg in the South Australian National Football League during the 1980s and 1990s....

 
Jim Stynes
Jim Stynes
James "Jim" Stynes OAM is an Irish former professional Australian rules footballer who is currently a businessman, philanthropist, writer, youth worker, qualified teacher and chairman of Melbourne Football Club since 2008....

 
Stephen Wright
Stephen Wright (Australian rules footballer)
Stephen Wright is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Sydney Swans during the 1980s and early 90s. He coached Highett Football Club in 2007 & 2008 in the Southern Football League....

 
Phillip Walsh
Phillip Walsh
Phillip Walsh is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Collingwood, Richmond and the Brisbane Bears in the VFL during the 1980s....

Greg Blaney
Greg Blaney
Greg Blaney is an Irish former dual GAA player who played Gaelic football and hurling for Down in the 1980s and 1990s. He is chiefly remember as a footballer. He was part of the Down team that won the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship in 1991 and 1994. Blaney also won three Ulster Senior...

 
Colm Browne
Colm Browne
Colm Browne was a Gaelic football player and manager with Laois. He also managed the Tipperary football team.Colm won numerous honours in the game including an All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship with his club Portlaoise in 1983, a National Football League title with Laois in 1986 and an...

 
Niall Cahalane
Niall Cahalane
Niall Cahalane is a former Irish sportsperson. He played senior football with Cork in the 1980s and 1990s.-Biography:...

 
Mick Fagan
Bernard Flynn
Bernard Flynn
Bernard Flynn is a retired inter-county Irish Gaelic footballer for County Meath in Ireland. As a teenager he attended secondary school in St Mary's of Drogheda. He enjoyed success play inter-county football in the 1980s and early 1990s on the Meath team's managed by Sean Boylan. For Meath he...

 
Stephen King
Stephen King (Gaelic footballer)
Stephen King was a former Gaelic football player for Cavan.-Playing career:He debut for Cavan in 1980, but didn't have much success in the early years only winning a Railway Cup Medal with Ulster in 1984. In 1989, Cavan had a great run in the National Football League claiming the Div. 2 title and...

 
Ger Lynch
Mick Lyons
Mick Lyons (Gaelic footballer)
Mick Lyons is a former Gaelic footballer who played for Summerhill and Meath. He won two All Ireland medals with Meath in 1987 and 1988 and has also won two All Star awards. He won the Meath Senior Football Championship with Summerhill in 1986. He has generally played at the full-back position...

 
Brian McGilligan
Brian McGilligan
Brian McGilligan is a former dual GAA player, who is most notable for being a Gaelic footballer for the Derry senior football team in the 1980s and 1990s, especially the 1993 team. He was part of Derry's 1993 All-Ireland Championship winning side and also won two Ulster Championships with the side...

 
eamus McHugh
Dermot McNicholl
Dermot McNicholl
Dermot "Spoofer" McNicholl , from Glenullin, is an All Star winning former Irish Gaelic footballer who played for Derry in the 1980s and 1990s. He was part of Derry's 1993 All-Ireland Championship winning side, also winning Ulster Senior Football Championships in 1987 and 1993. He usually played in...

 
Ciarán Murray
Ciarán Murray
Ciarán Murray was a former Gaelic football player for Monaghan.-Playing career:Murray helped Monaghan to victory in the 1984 National Football League Final defeating Armagh. He collected two Ulster Senior Football Championship medals in 1985, beating Derry and again in 1988, defeating Tyrone in...

 
John O'Leary
John O'Leary (Gaelic footballer)
John O'Leary is a Dublin-born Irish Gaelic footballer who played inter-county football for Dublin and club football for O'Dwyers. He is an area manager for Permanent TSB and has recently been a political candidate for Fianna Fáil in the constituency of Dublin North...

 
Robbie O'Malley 
Jim Reilly 
Noel Roche
Tony Scullion
Tony Scullion
Tony Scullion is a former Irish dual player who played Gaelic football and hurling with Derry in the 1980s and 1990s. He is chiefly known as a footballer and was part of Derry's 1993 All-Ireland Championship winning side, also winning Ulster Senior Football Championships in 1987 and 1993...

 
B. Sex
Pat Spillane
Pat Spillane
Patrick Gerard Spillane , better known as Pat Spillane, is a retired Gaelic footballer and well known Irish sports pundit. He played Gaelic football with his local club Templenoe and was a member of the Kerry senior inter-county team from 1975 until 1991...

 
Tom Spillane
Tom Spillane
Tom Spillane was a famous Gaelic footballer for Templenoe and Kerry in the 1980s.Tom Spillane was born in Templenoe, near Kenmare, County Kerry in 1962. He was, along with his brother Pat, a key member of the successful Kerry Gaelic football teams of the 1980s...

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