Caoimhín Kelleher transfer brings buzz to low-key Ireland summer camp

BUZZING: Brentford have completed the signing of Cork native Caoimhín Kelleher from Liverpool. Pic: Brentford.

It wouldn’t be a June window without absences and distractions. Caoimhin Kelleher has provided both ahead of the Republic of Ireland’s pair of friendlies with Senegal and Luxembourg and not a soul is complaining.

In London on Monday to firm up his switch from Liverpool to Brentford, the goalkeeper was back in situ in Abbotstown the next day for training before news of his five-year deal finally emerged from his new Premier League employers.