Ireland must prepare for life after Robbie Keane

Harry Arter seems eager to make up for lost time and opportunities.

The 26-year old midfielder won the man of the match award for his display against the Netherlands in one of the Euro 2016 warm-ups at the Aviva last May. It was a decent performance rather than a dazzling one, if truth be told, but he certainly didn’t hold back.

Arter picked up a yellow card that evening for an ill-advised and badly-executed tackle on Memphis Depay and he followed up a generally robust though tidy display with an early calling card last night when he went in recklessly on Abdulaziz Humaid Mubarak Al Muqbali.