Stephen Kenny: Press conferences just another part of the job

The Republic of Ireland manager has no issue with the roll call of press duties that come with managing an international football team

Manager Stephen Kenny during a Republic of Ireland training session at PGA Catalunya Resort in Girona, Spain. Picture: Stephen McCarthy/Sportsfile

Stephen Kenny is a year now into his grand redesign of the Republic of Ireland football team so it’s no real surprise that he isn't pitching in with any radical ideas when it comes to the thorny and topical issue of press conferences and other media duties.

Naomi Osaka’s withdrawal from the French Open has opened the manner in which sportspeople and the media interact up for global debate and few are expected to contend with as much questioning from the fourth estate as an international football manager.