Martin O'Neill hopes Robbie Keane and James McCarthy will be fit to face Sweden

"Fingers crossed. It's looking more positive, let's say, than about six or seven days ago."

Martin O'Neill is hopeful of having Robbie Keane and James McCarthy available to him for the Republic of Ireland's Euro 2016 opener against Sweden.

Both men were selected in O'Neill's final 23-man squad despite carrying injuries - in Keane's case a calf problem and in McCarthy's a hamstring strain - and neither played in the warm-up games against the Netherlands and Belarus before the squad arrived in France on Wednesday.