Happy Jack Byrne: 'I’m just grateful to have this chance this week'

Up to last weekend, Jack Byrne would have been expecting to complete his football duties this week by heading north to Ballybofey to face Finn Harps.

Instead, he finds himself heading south to Gibraltar, after a man-of-the-match display for Shamrock Rovers in Tallaght last Friday — crowned by a spectacular goal — saw him earn a late call-up to Mick McCarthy’s squad.