'Not going to stop until they get there' - World Cup co-hosts friendly increasing Irish hunger to qualify

Mason Melia has been an Ireland international for just a couple of minutes. It was enough. He did French in school and “couldn't tell you a word of it” yet he knows, again, enough.

Enough to find himself sitting in a hotel room in Montreal watching every advertisement on the TV about a World Cup which is now just eight days away and lamenting.

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