Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jason Molloy (footballer)
and I am feeling that the "fully professional" requirement at  does not accurately reflect consensus and should be modified. Comparing this to San Marino is pretty much a straw man. Ireland is not some silly little country on a small isle in the Atlantic. It is comparable to my country of Norway in size, and the interest in football is almost surely of the same level. Players at the top national level in a country like that get covered in the press. The idea is to ensure that the athletes we cover are playing at a high enough level where there is widespread public interest for what they are doing, not that everyone gets ''paid'' for what they are doing. Given that the exploits of clubs like Galway United, and the players who play for them are well-covered in Irish press (e.g. http://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2009/0724/bray_galway.html), and that the basics of the article are verifiable http://soccer-stats.irishtimes.com/?pStr=Player&plid=209095&cust=&lang=0, the article should pass notability criteria
— User:Sjakkalle, 14:13, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:ATHLETE (Wikipedia:Notability)