u/John__Delaney

- Sat, Nov 21 | 🇧🇷 v 🇮🇪

- Tue, Nov 24 | 🇨🇷 v 🇮🇪

- Fri, Nov 26 | 🇮🇪 v 🇹🇿

Came across this winger named Dani Paul who is listed on multiple sites as being Irish. He's 19, playing very well for Sporting Gijon B, and regularly trains Sporting Gijon's main squad.

They reside in La Liga 2 & he made the bench against Real Zaragoza 3 days ago. Signed a new deal until 2028 a few months back.

Looks like a promising player but can't find anything about his family or why these sites are listing him as Irish. Is anyone aware of his background?

Sites say he was born in Gijon but that's about it.

This squad threw up an awful lot of question marks for me, so here's my attempt to answer a few of them by outlining the status of each player.

- A few of the "not selected" players may be injured, but I haven't been able to confirm if they are. You'd imagine the likes of Vale is carrying a knock.

- Stanbdy list players are just the ones mentioned in the media, im sure the standby list is alot bigger than that.

- The squad could look a bit different by the time they get together, or jet off to Canada, so there may be plans to bring more players in. Heimir did mention Kelleher & Molumby will leave after Qatar.

- Im sure there were players in consideration who aren't listed here at all, I just didn't want to keep listing players forever, making the sheet unviewable.

- Oh & if you didn't hear already, that Parrott rib injury seems to be fine, he's confident he will join the camp as scheduled.

Head Coach Heimir Hallgrímsson has named a 24-man squad with a selection of first time call-ups 👏

Thu 28th May | 🇮🇪 v 🇶🇦

Sat 6th June | 🇨🇦 v 🇮🇪

SIPTU members in areas impacted by the scheduled international football match against Israel on 4th October in Dublin have begun a consultation process amid growing safety and moral concerns about the fixture.

“It is clear that the vast majority of SIPTU members, as with the rest of Irish society, are strongly opposed to the playing of these games. Our members are also asking questions in relation to their right to refuse to facilitate, through the provision of aviation, transport, accommodation and broadcasting services, this match going ahead.“

- SIPTU Deputy General Secretary, Greg Ennis

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“We are thinking that the January camp is the one for League of Ireland players. That’s the time when the squad will be made mostly of LOI players. That will be the next step, to integrate them into the national team, make a platform for these players. That will be next January and there’s already been positive talks with the FAI. We will just need to work with the clubs to find the correct time to go, and find opponents too."

“I’m not saying if we pick a January camp with 23 League of Ireland players that all of them will be in the next [senior] squad. But there will always be one or two players who can shine and that we like and will be in our minds from then on."

“Sometimes doing something different takes time and I accept that. The budget within the association is tight so we need to be careful where we spend. Given the LOI calendar, it [January] makes sense to me. That’s the reason why all the nations with the same calendar are doing it."

“People might disagree with me but this is my belief. I will try push it when I’m here because it gives us one extra camp with new faces. When I managed Iceland and Jamaica, there was always one player who would shine in those environments. From then on, they were in the first teams.”

Jaden Umeh, Eiran Cashin, Killian Cahill, Tayo Adaramola, Joel Bagan, Aidomo Emakhu and Jack Moylan all earning their first call-ups.

The 27 year old Centre Back is currently one of only two outfield players to have played every single minute in the EFL Championship this season, that's 46 appearances & doesn't include his FA Cup appearance along with 8 appearances for Ireland

The Ipswich Captain somehow managed to not get a single yellow or red card for club or country across these 55 appearances!

His League stats:

- 4140 minutes played

- 17 Clean sheets

- 1 Goal / 1 Assist

- 15 Chances created

- 84% Passing Accuracy

- 6.3 Clearances per game

- 0 penalties committed

- 69.3% of Duels won

- 402 Defensive contributions

- 182 recoveries

- 0.4 fouls conceeded per game / 0.8 fouls won per game

With 96 Premier League appearances under his belt, it will be great to see him back at the level we all know he's at.