article_snippet: For those who witnessed Ireland’s approach to playing Scotland at Celtic Park in November at close quarters, suggestions that those who witnessed Ireland’s approach to playing Scotland at Celtic Park in November at close quarters are a robust and direct unit scarcely seem tantamount to slander.
article_snippet: You wouldn’t have thought so but, then again, Martin O’Neill, whose Ireland side entertain the Poles in Dublin, has never been one to resist an ever-so diplomatic counter-swipe at such accusations.
article_snippet: Currently sitting on top of Group D, Ireland will surely need snookers to catch them if them leave the Aviva Stadium with another maximum return of points.
article_snippet: Having won in Georgia and pinched a point in Germany, Ireland’s campaign hit the buffers with defeat in Glasgow in Ireland’s campaign last competitive outing.
article_snippet: O’Neill knows – from bitter experience in Glasgow – how the entire dynamic of the section can turn in an instant.
highlights_snippet: Republic of Ireland take on Poland in Euro 2016 qualifier on Sunday .
  