Martin O’Neill taking nothing for granted ahead of Republic of Ireland's World Cup qualifiers

In the run-up to the back-to-back World Cup qualifiers at home to Georgia and away to Moldova, a depleted Irish squad held its first training session of the week at Abbotstown yesterday.

It came to a backdrop of injury issues having forced extensive change in Martin O’Neill’s panel and with significant question marks attached to a couple of players.

Definitely out of the games are Daryl Murphy (calf) Stephen Quinn (knee), Aiden McGeady (hamstring), Anthony Pilkington (quad), Kevin Doyle (ankle), and Keiren Westwood (thigh), while rated doubtful but still under assessment, are Harry Arter (groin) and James McCarthy (groin).