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Lily Agg takes emotional Cobh trip ahead of game of her life

A week out from the biggest game of her career, Lily Agg took a trip to Cobh, Co Cork with her mother to connect with her deep Irish roots.

Last month, Agg came off the bench to head home the winner against Finland at Tallaght Stadium, and she subsequently started in the narrow defeat of Slovakia that sent Ireland straight to round two of the World Cup play-offs.

The Brighton-born midfielder, who qualifies for Ireland through her Cork-born grandmother, has a very strong chance of starting in Tuesday's massive encounter with Scotland in the absence of the injured Ruesha Littlejohn, but she's not getting swept up in the hype just yet.

Instead, Agg has spent a lot of this week catching up with family; reminiscing about the past, strengthening her bond to Ireland's south coast. When she scored against the Finns, the 28-year-old looked to the sky and said a prayer to her gran, who is never far from her thoughts.

"It was really nice to have my mom with me because we never get a couple of days together," Agg said at the team's Castleknock Hotel base.

"It was sweet. We've lots of family and stayed with my cousins. I went back to my grandmother’s house. That was cute but a bit emotional. We went through a lot of photographs at the dinner table. It was a short and sweet trip, really nice.

"It was the house my grandmother grew up in, not where she died. Our own cousins still live in Cobh, so we stayed there and had a good tour of the place.

"Lots of my family work at the Commodore Hotel [in Cobh]. We went there to have some nice coffees and they organised the logistics for the day. From there, I went over to Cobh Ramblers, where my great grandad [Michael Greene] was involved over his life.

"It was really emotional. The family were really

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