Jack Byrne 'has had a good conversation with Stephen Kenny' over Ireland omission 

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Jack Byrne is mature enough as a player and person to have accepted his exclusion from Stephen Kenny’s Republic of Ireland squad for the upcoming Nations League games with Bulgaria and Finland, according to his Shamrock Rovers manager, Stephen Bradley.

Kenny said at his first Ireland squad announcement on Monday that Byrne is on a standby list and that it was a ‘very tight call’ to leave Hoops’ 24-year-old schemer out of his 23-man squad.