Harry Arter has made a remarkable rise from non-league to international football in the space of six years.
The left-footed central-midfielder has a granny from Sligo and is also the brother-in-law of Fulham's former England captain, once of Spurs and West Ham, Scott Parker.
Arter was let go by Charlton Athletic in 2009 and ended up at Conference club Woking for one season before eventually being snapped up by Eddie Howe.
The Bournemouth boss had just guided his team into League One and paid €140-thousand for Arter before leaving the club himself to take over at Burnley.
Howe would eventually return to Bournemouth in 2012 and was instrumental in Arter rediscovering his form as the Cherries pulled out of the relegation mire before achieving promotion to the Championship.
The club are at the summit of the English second-tier this season and have impressed Republic of Ireland boss Martin O'Neill with their style of play, as has Arter with some excellent performances and a tally eight goals (see cracker v Middlesboro below!).
Although born and reared in London, he opted to play for Ireland at u17 & u19 level before finally getting a senior call-up from O'Neill a couple of weeks ago.
Arter joined up with the Irish squad and trained for the first time today, ahead of Sunday's must-win Euro 2016 qualifier against Poland.
98FM Sport's Stephen Doyle spoke to the newest recruit in Malahide where he was asked if O'Neill spoke to him specifically about his plan for him
