Dara O'Shea: 'There was stuff I had to learn about myself and other people'

Republic of Ireland's Dara O'Shea during a press conference at the FAI National Training Centre. Pic: Brian Lawless/Press Association.

Dara O’Shea has explained that the Ireland squad were prepared to ‘act as one’ around the Israel games until Gavin Bazunu became the outlier by withdrawing from the squad.

In the absence of captain Nathan Collins and former skipper Séamus Coleman, the Ipswich Town defender was assigned the armband for his first competitive window, a four-game marathon including the pair of matches against Israel.