Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Tsakanin 1981 da 1988
MacNeill ya buga wa Ireland wasa 37. Ya fara bugawa Ireland kwallo a ranar 7 ga Fabrairun 1981 da Faransa a Lansdowne Road, inda ya zira kwallaye na farko na goma na kasa da kasa. A cikin wannan gasar ya zira kwallaye na biyu a kan Wales da kuma kwallaye a kan Ingila. Ya ci gaba da ƙoƙari a kan Ingila a 1982 da Scotland a 1988. Ya kuma zira kwallaye a Wales a shekarar 1983. MacNeill ya kasance memba na kungiyoyin Ireland da suka lashe gasar cin kofin kasashe biyar da Triple Crown a 1982 da 1985 kuma suka raba gasar tare da Faransa a 1983. Ya kuma kasance memba na tawagar 'yan wasan Ireland a gasar Rugby ta Duniya ta 1987, inda ya zira kwallaye hudu a wasanni hudu na Ireland, daya a kan Kanada, biyu a kan Tonga da kuma daya a wasan da aka doke Australia. MacNeill ya yi wasan karshe na Ireland a kan Ingila a ranar 23 ga Afrilu, 1988. Tare da Tony Ward, Moss Keane, Donal Spring da Ciaran Fitzgerald, MacNeill sun ƙi shiga cikin yawon shakatawa na ƙungiyar rugby ta Ireland na 1981 na Afirka ta Kudu a lokacin mulkin wariyar launin fata. Bayan fashewar bama-bamai na Docklands na 1996, tare da Trevor Ringland, MacNeill ya taimaka wajen shirya abokantaka tsakanin Ireland da Barbarians a Lansdowne Road don nuna cewa mutanen Ireland suna son zaman lafiya.