Martin O’Neill not planning peace talks with Roy Hodgson

It’s an open and shut case for Martin O’Neill’s Ireland this week.

Yesterday, they threw the gates wide open for a public training session at the Aviva Stadium but today they retreat behind closed doors at the same venue for a practice game against Northern Ireland.

For the first of three “derbies” in 11 days, O’Neill plans to give all his squad a run-out, although it has still to be decided between himself and his counterpart Michael O’Neill whether it will be a game of two halves or three thirds.