Harry Arter looks to make up for lost time

Euro 2016 Group D

There was a time when Sligo was as familiar to Harry Arter as the streets of his native Sidcup or the beaches of Bournemouth where he is now based and has played his football for the last five years.

Both sets of grandparents, Rooneys and Gallaghers, hail from the northwest county and the newly-minted member of Martin O’Neill’s Republic of Ireland squad travelled over from England time and again to spend his summer holidays with his mother’s side of the family.