David McGoldrick has been ruled out of Sunday's World Cup Qualifier against Austria due to injury.

Darren Randolph or Keiren Westwood?

The Republic of Ireland have beaten Uruguay 3-1 in their international friendly in Dublin.

Republic of Ireland manager Martin O'Neill has added nine players to the squad ahead of the friendly against Uruguay at the Aviva on Sunday.

Martin O’Neill is an avid consumer, a voracious reader. Forever aware and always interested in the topics of the day. At Ireland training on Tuesday afternoon, he was heard enquiring on the rolling updates of Tiger Woods’ latest sorry episode.

John Egan emerged from his first senior cap battered and bruised yet determined to play a part in the rest of Ireland’s World Cup qualification campaign.

The fabled Icelandic thunderclap might have reverberated around Lansdowne Road now and again but, in truth, this was a game which represented the calm after the storm, on the temperature scale a production rather closer to ice than the fire of Friday’s torrid affair.

Robbie Brady was the man of the moment at the FAI 2016 Awards last night, taking an unprecedented hat-trick of gongs for Senior Player, Young Player, and for his Euros winner against Italy, Goal Of The Year.

Blackburn claimed all three points in Tony Mowbray's first home game in charge to boost their survival prospects and weaken Derby's diminishing play-off hopes.

Jamaal Lascelles rescued Newcastle with an 81st-minute equaliser as Rafael Benitez's men maintained their one-point lead at the top of the Sky Bet Championship with a 2-2 draw at Norwich.

David McGoldrick came off the bench to ease the pressure on Ipswich manager Mick McCarthy in Saturday’s Championship action.

Chris Hughton isn’t the revenge type but you’d have to suspect Saturday’s 5-0 mauling of Norwich City in the Championship meant plenty to the Brighton boss.

Newcastle made it six straight wins in the Sky Bet Championship with a narrow 2-1 victory at Preston which maintained their cushion at the top of the table.

With the post-Robbie Keane era now fully under way, much attention will be paid to the strikers in Martin O’Neill’s latest squad announcement today and, in particular, whether he sees fit to include Brentford’s Scott Hogan who is currently joint-top scorer in the Championship with six goals this season.

Martin O’Neill has poured scorn on the suggestion he will have to guard against the boredom and grumbles that were supposedly rife among Giovanni Trapattoni’s Republic of Ireland squad in the lead-up and during Euro 2012.

Casting an eye over those battling to be on the plane for the Republic of Ireland’s Euro 2016 adventure...

At the Irish team hotel in Castleknock yesterday, Roy Keane was asked how he was feeling on the morning after the night before.

Having upped sticks from Malahide, the Irish squad will get a first taste of their new Dublin base when they step out on Pitch Number One at the National Training Centre in Abbotstown this morning, to begin preparations for the European Championship double-header away to Gibraltar in Faro on Friday and at home to Georgia in the Aviva Stadium on the following Monday.

Martin O’Neill is trusting that his players will go the extra mile in keeping themselves sharp and focused in the long post-season run-up to the friendly against England on June 7 and, more crucially, the Euro 2016 qualifier against Scotland on June 13.

Bournemouth midfielder Harry Arter is the only newcomer in a provisional 34-man Irish squad for the Euro qualifier against Poland but Martin O’Neill has sprung something of a surprise by including injured Hull City winger Robbie Brady.

Bradford and Reading must wait to make history after the two lowest sides left in this season’s FA Cup clattered out a goalless lunchtime draw at Valley Parade.

He may have been outshone by clubmate David McGoldrick in Ireland’s 4-1 friendly win over the USA last week but Daryl Murphy remains the star Irishman at Ipswich after his goal earned Mick McCarthy’s men a 2-2 draw at Bournemouth.

International Friendly

Sky Sports News HQ have gotten involved in the row about soccer players not born in the Republic of Ireland pulling on the green jersey and have upset a lot of people with their “country of birth” statistic this morning.

Euro Championship 2016 qualifier

Martin O’Neill has today named his final 27-man squad for the Republic of Ireland’s next two games - the crucial Euro 2016 qualifier against Scotland on Friday and the friendly against the USA next week.

Martin O'Neill has named a provisional 36-man squad for Ireland's upcoming games against Scotland and USA.

Injured midfielder James McCarthy will be monitored after being left out of the Republic of Ireland squad for the Euro 2016 qualifiers against Gibraltar and Germany because of injury.

Swansea 3 Everton 0

Republic of Ireland boss Martin O’Neill has named a provisional 37-man squad for next month’s Euro 2016 qualifiers against Gibraltar and Germany.

In the week that was in it, and with the long awaited Euros kick off now just 24 hours away, a conversation with Kevin Kilbane could only begin with one question: was he too now ready to come out of international retirement?

Club managers measure the passage of time in days and weeks, international managers in months and years.

Republic of Ireland boss Martin O’Neill is remaining coy over Shay Given’s chances of starting the opening Euro 2016 qualifier in Georgia on Sunday.

Republic of Ireland 2 Oman 0

James McClean is out of the Republic of Ireland’s opening Euro 2016 qualifier in Georgia.

Republic of Ireland 2 Oman 0

Republic of Ireland boss Martin O’Neill sprang no surprises when he named a provisional squad for his first competitive game.

Martin O'Neill has named a provisional 36-man squad for Ireland's upcoming games against Oman and Georgia.

Aiden McGeady has backed Roy Keane to win over any doubters at Celtic and claims the Corkman is already planning his living arrangements in Scotland.

Republic of Ireland 0 Italy 0

Italy were held by the Republic of Ireland to a goalless draw in a lively encounter at Craven Cottage.