David Meyler banking on performance against Belarus

Martin O’Neill wouldn’t say whether David Meyler will start against Belarus tonight, but the Hull City midfielder will have longer to impress than the last time he effectively auditioned for a current member of the Ireland management team at Turner’s Cross.

Meyler was only 18 when Roy Keane took his newly-promoted Sunderland side to their home city and the youngster was handed a Cork City senior debut that lasted seven minutes at the back end of a pre-season 1-1 draw.

Another year passed before Keane would bring the player to the English north-east, but Meyler needs things to happen a mite faster this time, given O’Neill has only got until 11pm tonight to submit his Euro 2016 squad to the Uefa admin department in Switzerland.