Kerr: we’ll silence Domenech

THERE were no surprises yesterday when Republic of Ireland manager Brian Kerr announced his squad for the World Cup clash against France on September 7.

To judge by Kerr's comments, there won't be too many surprises about the way the Irish set about the biggest game of their qualifying campaign to date.

Kerr also had a pointed message for his French counterpart Raymond Domenech yesterday when he declared: "Everyone knows what it's going to take for us to beat them here the traditional qualities of Irish teams and not the sort of stuff that Domenech was having a go at us about a few weeks ago in an interview basically slagging us, having a laugh over the way we played in some of the matches and stuff like that.