Dunne left out of Kerr’s 23-man squad for qualifiers

BRIAN KERR yesterday named an international squad for his first competitive international that might well have been selected by his predecessor Mick McCarthy.

Richard Dunne (Manchester City) is the only one of the World Cup squad which competed in Japan and South Korea not included in a panel of 23 players, apart from the three who have retired Niall Quinn, Alan Kelly and Steve Staunton.

There have been five additions to that squad all predictable choices. Nick Colgan (Hibernian) replaced Alan Kelly (Blackburn). This was a change sign-posted by Kerr when he introduced Colgan as a second-half substitute in the recent friendly against Scotland.