Ireland get back to task in hand

Kevin Foley is back home with his family in England, having left Ireland’s Euro 2012 training camp in Italy.

FAI sources said Giovanni Trapattoni had been on hand to say goodbye to the player when he left the team’s hotel in Montecatini at 10.30am yesterday but there were no further details of what transpired between the two after Foley had said he felt betrayed by the manager’s decision to drop him from Ireland’s squad.

The player was accompanied to the airport by two members of the FAI staff before catching his flight home.