Veteran John O’Shea playing cards close to his chest on retirement

John O’Shea is not about to prematurely call time on his international career.

The Waterford man will earn cap number 111 when he lines out against the Netherlands at the Aviva Stadium tonight but, smiling broadly, yesterday declined to rise to the bait when asked if France 2016 might be his Ireland swansong.

“I’m not going to get involved in anything like that, to say this is the last tournament or this or that,” he parried. “I am just enjoying the next game as it comes, and that’s all I am going to do going forward.