Our World Cup qualifying hopes were pretty much eliminated after two minutes of action in the Aviva, writes John Roycroft.

Once again Ireland's performance looked better than results suggest. John Roycroft wonders if Irish boss Stephen Kenny can blend his playing ideology with a successful qualification campaign.

John Roycroft points out that our early confidence ahead of the Nations League campaign has been rudely brought back to reality due to our lack of quality finishers 

Ireland manager Stephen Kenny picked an extensive squad ahead of their Uefa Nations League campaign which John Roycroft fears may be more testing than we had earlier predicted