Graham Barrett (born 6 October 1981 in Dublin) is an Irish international footballer who currently plays for League of Ireland side, Shamrock Rovers.

[edit] Club career

Barrett started his career with Arsenal, and featured in their FA Youth Cup winning side of 2000. He made three first team appearances for Arsenal, and had loan spells at Bristol Rovers, Crewe Alexandra, Colchester United and Brighton and Hove Albion. He moved to Coventry City on a permanent basis in the summer of 2003, but was in and out of the first team during his time there. He had a loan spell at Sheffield Wednesday as a replacement for the injured Steve MacLean towards the end of the 2004–05 season and scored on his debut.

In summer 2005, Barrett was loaned to Scottish side Livingston, at the instigation of then-new manager Paul Lambert, but his career was disrupted by a serious knee ligament injury early during the 2005-6 season, and he was released by Coventry when his contract ended in June 2006. Barrett signed for Falkirk before the 2006–07 season on a two year contract, again sufering injury problems which excluded him for much of his first season there. Barrett was released by Falkirk in January 2009, despite scoring two goals in his last appearance for the club.^[1] He went on trial with Hearts after this, but a contract did not follow from that, and he signed for First Division club St. Johnstone.^[1]. On July 8th he joined Grimsby Town on trial.

Graham signed for Shamrock Rovers in August 2009. [1] Making his debut against Galway United on the 29th August. [2]. Scored his first goal for the Hoops in his 7th league game [3].

His father Gary played for Rovers in the early 80s [4].

[edit] International career

Useful as both a midfielder or a forward, Barret has represented the Republic of Ireland at youth and senior level. He was part of the side that won the UEFA Under-16 Championship in 1998. Barrett later won six caps and scored two goals for the senior team between 2002 and 2004.

[edit] International goals

Scores and results list Ireland's goal tally first.

#	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1	21 August 2002	Olympic Stadium, Helsinki	Finland	3–0	3–0	Friendly
2	2 June 2004	The Valley, London	Jamaica	1–0	1–0	Friendly

[edit] Honours

[edit] Republic of Ireland

• UEFA U-17 Championship: 1998

[edit] External links

• Graham Barrett career stats at Soccerbase
• Photos and stats at sporting-heroes.net

[edit] References