The first International (Association) match in Ireland was played at Bloomfield, Belfast, on Saturday. The attendance of spectators was very large, the weather bitterly cold, a gale blowing, accompanied at times by showers of rain and hail. The result of the match was an easy victory for England by 13 goals to nil. England won the toss. Ireland kicked off against a perfect hurricane. The ball was driven up to the Irish goal, and within a few minutes from the start Vaughton scored a goal for England, and two others were obtained in the succeeding 15 minutes. Towards the conclusion of the game Cursham made some splendid runs on the left, for which he was loudly cheered. Bambridge also played in fine form, and his neat dribbling and passing tended considerably to the number of goals in the latter half of the game. In the centre the two Brown's played an excellent game throughout, but the Blackburn man was scarcely so effective as usual when near goal. All the English backs performed remarkably well, but Hargreaves and Greenwood were best of the quartet. As to the Irish team, it may be said they played fairly well all round, but as the majority of them have only had two seasons' practice it could scarcely be expected that they would show to advantage when pitted against such a strong team as that which represented England.
    

Great Marlow beat the Old Foresters 1-0 to reach the F.A. Cup semi-finals for the only time, where they were beaten 5-0 by the eventual winners, Old Etonians.

It was on 17 February 1882 that Lord Donoughmore's motion was passed for a Select Committee to be set up to investigate the inefficiencies of the previous year's Irish Land Act.