#ireland-national-team

#ireland-national-team

"Yeah I spoke to them, they spoke to every Tom, Dick, and Harry, but even that was a farce. The amount of people who have come out in the last six months that said they were offered the job. But that's the FAI, I've said it before, they couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery. It's sad, it's a long way back. But the FAI as well need to get their house in order."

Sammie Szmodics is out of Ireland's World Cup qualifier in Armenia on Tuesday, with Shamrock Rovers defender Josh Honohan called up to take his place on the plane Szmodics started last night's 2-2 draw with Hungary but the Ipswich player has sustained a knock which has forced his withdrawal. He was making his return to the Irish set up after missing the previous four games.

Breaking | Seámus Coleman has been left out of the Ireland squad for next month's opening World Cup qualifying double-header, as Heimir Hallgrimsson named his 23-man squad this morning. The Ireland boss said in May that he was hopeful the Everton captain would return for the crunch fixtures against Hungary and Armenia, but despite now being fit, there is no place in the squad for the 73-times capped defender.

It's been an incredible season for me in the Netherlands, and receiving that call from Heimir gave me a lot of motivation to keep pushing.