Majella Haverty is an Irish racquetball player.
 She is the most capped Irish junior player having represented Ireland at seven World Junior Racquetball Championships.
 Haverty has also represented Ireland at Senior level competing both at World and European Championships.
 Haverty has won 10 Junior National titles representing Castlebar Racquetball Club.
Séamus John James "Shay" Given (born 20 April 1976) is an Irish professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper.
Gianluigi "Gigi" Buffon (] , ; born 28 January 1978) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper.
 He captains both Serie A club Juventus and the Italy national team.
 He is widely regarded by players, pundits and managers to be one of the greatest goalkeepers of all time, and, by some, to be the greatest ever.
 Buffon is one of only eighteen players to have made at least 1,000 professional career appearances; with 171 international caps, Buffon is also the most capped player in the history of the Italian national team, the fifth-most capped male international footballer of all time, and the most capped European international player ever.
 Buffon is known for his "outstanding shot-stopping" and for being "a vocal organizer of the defence and a key dressing room personality".
 He is currently the most expensive goalkeeper in history, following his €52 million transfer from Parma to Juventus in 2001.
 Buffon holds the record for the most clean sheets in Serie A, and with the Italy national team; he also holds the record for the longest streak without conceding a goal in Serie A history: over 12 league matches, he went unbeaten for 974 consecutive minutes during the 2015–16 season, as well as having achieved the most consecutive clean sheets (10) in Serie A in that same season.
Steven Davis MBE (born 1 January 1985) is a Northern Irish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder and is the captain of both Premier League club Southampton and the Northern Ireland national team.
 Davis made his full international debut in 2005 and has since been capped over 90 times at senior level, scoring eight goals.
 He captained his nation at UEFA Euro 2016.
The Professional Footballers' Association of Ireland Players' Player of the Year (often called the PFAI Players' Player of the Year, the Players' Player of the Year, or simply the Irish Player of the Year) award is given to the footballer the League of Ireland Premier Division, who is seen to have been the best player of the previous season.
Michael John "Johnny" Giles (born 6 November 1940) is an Irish former association footballer and manager best remembered for his time as a midfielder with Leeds United in the 1960s and 1970s.
 After retiring from management in 1985, Giles served as the senior analyst on RTÉ Sport's coverage of association football from 1986 until 2016.
 The FAI voted Giles as the greatest Irish player of the last 50 years at the UEFA Jubilee Awards in 2004.
Kevin Daniel Kilbane ( ; born 1 February 1977) is a former professional footballer who played as both a left back and a left winger.
 Born and raised in England but of Irish parentage, Kilbane won 110 caps for the Republic of Ireland national football team, third behind only Robbie Keane and Shay Given as the most capped Irish player of all time.
Graham Carey (born 20 May 1989) is an Irish professional footballer who plays for Football League One club Plymouth Argyle.
 He plays as a left sided attacking midfielder.
 Carey joined Celtic in 2005 from Shelbourne's youth team and made his Celtic debut in 2009 against Rapid Vienna in the UEFA Europa League, He has played six times for the Republic of Ireland Under 21 team, having been capped at all International levels from under 15.
 During his time at Celtic Carey had loan spells with Bohemians in the League of Ireland, St Mirren and Huddersfield Town in League One in England.
 He then signed for St Mirren permanently and in 2013, moved to Ross County where he spent two seasons.
Olamide Oluwatimilehin Babatunde Oluwaka Shodipo (born 5 July 1997) is an Irish professional footballer who plays as a winger for EFL Championship club Queens Park Rangers.
 He made his first team debut for QPR in August 2016, and has been capped by the Republic of Ireland at under-19 and under-21 levels.
 He joined Port Vale on loan in January 2017.
Scott Evans (born 26 September 1987 in Dublin) is an Irish professional badminton player.
 As of 2017 he is the highest ranked Irish player.

Question: In which role did the Irish professional footballer play after whom Kevin Daniel Kilbane was the most capped Irish player of all time?
Answer: goalkeeper