Ireland will have nothing less than victory in mind when they take on Montenegro in their Euro 2021 qualifier in Petrovac tomorrow.

Jordan Flores may have wrapped up goal of the season award.

The FAI have said that they are in discussions with UEFA and with the Associations in Northern Ireland, Scotland and England regarding the effects on children of heading footballs.

“I played a football match yesterday and it was the first time I enjoyed a football match in about two years.”

Wexford Youths Women have been on the wrong side of wonder-goals over the years but this weekend they got one of their own.

Marta pulled it off where many in football have tried and failed, talking about herself in the third person with striking dignity.

Wednesday evening had been intended as Cinema Evening, a new picture house having opened around the corner and being in need of investigation and appraisal. Given my enduring weakness for high-school movies there was only going to be one winner: Booksmart, in which two clever students realise on the eve of graduation that they should have worked less and played more, upon which they hit the town and attempt to cram four years of lost fun into one night.

Women forming their own culture club

Megan Campbell, Stephanie Roche and Méabh De Búrca tell Dave Donnelly who they think will win the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup.

We asked three players who have played for Ireland who will win the Women's World Cup...

Ireland striker Stephanie Roche believes the unprecedented coverage of this summer’s Women’s World Cup will precede a lasting cultural shift in the perception of women’s sport.

"I realised I could not top this, ever. It is a master dress and it brings me joy to see someone so exquisite representing an Irish brand on the red carpet.”

The 29-year-old had been out of contract since the summer, after breaking her leg while at Sunderland in 2017.

There was a time when a woman’s place on TV coverage of the World Cup was restricted to leering crowd shots of female fans.

Rep of Ireland 0 Norway 2

Wexford Youths striker Rianna Jarrett has put her injury nightmare behind her to earn a recall to the Ireland women’s squad for the first time since she made her senior debut against Italy in the Cyprus Cup in April 2016.

The Irish player of the year had missed the matches against Slovakia and the Netherlands in April with a broken collarbone.

Colin Bell has said he won’t consider selecting Stephanie Roche for Ireland’s back-to-back World Cup qualifiers against Norway in June.

Player of the Year Harriet Scott has been ruled out of the two matches due to a collarbone injury whilst striker Stephanie Roche continues her spell on the sidelines with a long-term injury.

“We’ll just go out and prove them wrong!”

Irish international Stephanie Roche is in a race against time to be fit for the big World Cup qualifiers against Slovakia and the Netherlands in April after suffering a setback in her recovery from a serious injury she sustained last September.

The Irish football year was book-ended and overshadowed by the tragic deaths of Derry City skipper Ryan McBride and the young Shelbourne striker Izzy Desu, writes Liam Mackey.

After a year of turbulence and triumph for the Irish women’s team, skipper Katie McCabe is relishing the chance to make history in 2018.

As their toughest test inches closer, Ireland women’s manager Colin Bell has urged his players to embrace the challenge of facing European champions Netherlands in their backyard before a capacity crowd.

Northern Ireland 0 Republic of Ireland 2: Megan Campbell starred for Ireland last night as they easily overcame Northern Ireland in Lurgan to begin their 2019 World Cup quest with victory.

Republic of Ireland Women's Team made a winning start to their FIFA 2019 World Cup qualification campaign with a 2-0 win over Northern Ireland tonight.

One day short of the first year anniversary of their last competitive game, Ireland’s women’s team open the World Cup qualification quest tonight against neighbours Northern Ireland at Mourneview Park in Lurgan (7.30pm).

Not even sharing a shortlist with Colombian James Rodriguez in 2015 for her Puskas Award nomination gave Stephanie Roche more pride than helping her Irish women’s team succeed in their drive for basic conditions earlier this month.

Football has taken Stephanie Roche to places she could hardly have imagined as a kid who, growing up in Shankhill, was mad about the game.

Colin Bell doesn’t quite go so far as to declare that the girls in green need to turn it up to 11 but, as a fan of Jurgen Klopp’s brand of ‘heavy metal football’, the new manager of the Irish women’s team certainly places a high value on intensity.

From being banned from playing in the street leagues as a kid to captaining and managing her country, Sue Ronan has seen the landscape of the women’s game in Ireland change dramatically in her lifetime, but the FAI’s Head of Women’s Football tells Liam Mackey there are big challenges ahead.