Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Ireland ta buga wasan farko na One Day International a ranar 13 ga Yuni 2006. a kan Ingila wanda Ingila ta lashe tseren 38, ta kammala nasara a gaban cikakken taron jama'a a Stormont. Mooney ya dauki makwanni uku a wasan <unk> wadanda Marcus Trescothick, Paul Collingwood, da Ian Bell <unk> kuma daga baya ya bayyana wasan a matsayin daya daga cikin manyan abubuwan da ya yi a rayuwarsa. Ya gama da 30 ba a fitar da shi daga kwallaye 26 ba. Mooney na daga cikin 'yan wasan Ireland 15 da suka je West Indies a watan Fabrairun 2007 don buga gasar cin kofin duniya ta farko a kasar
Ka yi haƙuri. Sun cimma daidaito da Zimbabwe da nasara a kan Pakistan da Bangladesh, kuma sun kammala gasar a matsayi na 10 a cikin jerin sunayen ICC na hukuma, suna mamakin mutane da yawa kuma suna karɓar "jarumai maraba" lokacin da suka dawo gida. Ireland sun kasance mafi yawan 'yan wasa a lokacin. Bayan gasar cin kofin duniya, Mooney ya janye daga tawagar domin ya kammala karatun sa na lantarki.