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Preview: Stephen Kenny not for turning even if the end of the road nears in Amsterdam

Should tonight's Euro 2024 qualifier in Amsterdam prove to be Stephen Kenny’s last competitive match in charge of the national team, the manager looks set to go out all guns blazing.

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Keane on Saipan: 'I should have said I'm not playing for you, I'm playing for my country'

Saipan is an infamous chapter in Irish football history, and it still divides opinion to this day.

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Sporting expansionism is a worldwide problem - tournaments are out of control

As is so often the case, FIFA led the way. Back in 2017 when football's world governing body decided to increase the number of teams competing at the World Cup from 32 to 48, its president Gianni Infantino found it easy to justify the seismic change.

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Virgil van Dijk: Evan Ferguson absence a boon for Netherlands

Netherlands captain Virgil van Dijk is all too aware of the advantage his side will enjoy when they face a Republic of Ireland side shorn of Evan Ferguson on Sunday at the Aviva Stadium.

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'This is just the start' - Irish team welcomed home from Women's World Cup

Thirty-three years and a month after Jack Charlton lamented that "we drank very little" to the hordes in College Green, the Irish women's football team returned home to a rousing welcome in Dublin after their historic first trek to a World Cup.