Daniel Ballard is the only new face in Michael O’Neill’s 27-man group.
Michael Duffy and Pat Hoban were on the scoresheet as Dundalk booked their place in the second round of the Europa League qualifiers.
The cars were broken into in the Doolough area of Louisburgh.
Gardaí are now using new laws to tackle sham marriages.
* And that’s even before they were suspended. Dublin meanwhile ranks 31st out of 31 European cities in terms of percentage income spent on charges each year.
If EU house price rises were a music chart, would Ireland make the top 5?
The Italian’s eventful reign in charge of the Boys in Green is over.
Concerns about jobs at the IFSC are among the reasons that Ireland has not signed up to implementing a levy on financial transactions despite Greece, Portugal, Italy, Spain, Germany and France all doing so.
It seems like a lifetime ago now.. but relive the madness with this collection of images.
Poll: Should Ireland introduce a financial transaction tax?
Finance Minister Michael Noonan has rejected the introduction of a tax on financial market transactions but what do you think of the idea?
The Boys in Green are going home early and there are genuine reasons for Irish football fans to be feeling down, writes Miguel Delaney.
“We came here with the aim and the dream of winning the European Championships. It’s gone completely wrong for us,” said the Aston Villa defender this afternoon.
“We don’t see fear in training or in our preparations for the tournament, I don’t see tensions in the side,” said the Italian after the rout by Spain.
Ireland were up against it when facing the defending champions tonight. But the Ireland manager gave Spain a helping hand, writes Miguel Delaney.
The Italian admitted his side made life easy for one of the best team’s to ever lace up football boots tonight in Gdansk.
“You can hear the fans, they’re an absolute credit to their country and the team,” said the West Brom man after the defeat.
The Irish are the first team eliminated from the tournament after a night to forget in Gdansk.
Giovanni Trapattoni leads his men into a can’t-lose clash with the world and European champions in Gdansk. It might well be epic.
With a mouth-watering Group C game against defending champions Spain hours away, the Irish are painting the city green.
It’s clear Ireland will go with the skipper as a lone striker against Spain, Miguel Delaney writes from Gdynia.
Poll: Should Trap drop Robbie Keane for the Spain game tomorrow?
Should Ireland’s record goalscorer sit this one out in order to stifle the likes of Xavi and Iniesta in midfield?
The message from the Ireland skipper was clear this afternoon ahead of the daunting meeting with world champions Spain in Gdynia: believe.
“Clearly we are not going to change our style one little bit,” the Barcelona man insisted today.
The 73-year-old Italian coach said he has to rebuild some dented Irish confidence before taking on Vicente del Bosque’s Spain.
Ukraine the perfect hosts, England go back to basics and more headers. Miguel Delaney breaks it down.
“This morning, I watched our game with more calmness and came to the conclusion that we played good,” the Ireland boss said today.
All is not lost, Ireland fans. No seriously… it’s not.
Cian O’Callaghan woke up with a thumping headache, a sore jaw and a magical day’s worth of memories.
If you’re going to sit back and invite teams onto you, the most important objective is not to commit the kind of errors that sabotage that, writes Miguel Delaney in Poznan.
“Maybe Shay didn’t see the ball, because he had three or four players in front of him,” Trapattoni said of the early Croatian goal.
The Italian said Ireland will now aim for six points against Spain and Italy over the course of the next week.
Ireland were out-classed by Croatia in their Group C opener in Poland tonight. Here’s how it happened.
Could Giovanni Trapattoni’s men get off to a winning start against Croatia this evening? Let’s find out.
We whiled away the hours before kick-off collecting tweets, following stories and giggling excitedly. Review the day’s action here.