
Football
Share
Published 21:57 23 Jun 2016 BST
Explore more on these topics:
“He’s an impressive, young man,” O’Neill said on Thursday. “He’s a very quiet, young man, but he’s shown a great intensity in this competition. He’s ready for it. "He embraced the captaincy, took it in his stride. I thought he was a captain in everything he did. “A couple of players mentioned that he was inspirational in his little speech to the players, which was great.”You have to love this intensity from the #irl captain Seamus Coleman #coybig #ita #EURO2016 #ITAIRL #ItaliaIrlandapic.twitter.com/jbuEzyxvyI
— Tim McCarthy (@timjmccarthy) June 22, 2016
O'Neill also spoke passionately about how important it was for the late winner to arrive, not just to secure qualification for Ireland but to prove to the players that a performance of that quality and energy would ultimately pay dividends.
He continued: “We needed to seal that performance last night with a win because I don’t think we wanted to go home feeling that it was a great performance, we should have had a penalty but didn’t, Wes should have scored but didn’t and, do you know what, in two days’ time, it’s forgotten.
“We’ve come up big at the end of the game and deservedly so, but for that to mean that we have qualified and gone through, it was just immense in that sense, so at least we will take great pride in that.”

Ireland legend has to calm himself during Arsenal argument with fellow pundit
They were not on the same page….. Kenny Cunningham and Shay Given once again proved themselves as hugely entertaining football pundits, after last night’s Champions League semi-final between Arsenal and Atletico Madrid. Following Tuesday’s 5-4 thriller between PSG and Bayern Munich, Cunningham had caused a stir by playing down the quality of the game. And, […]
Football
5h
Live sport on TV in Ireland this weekend – Football, GAA, Rugby – May 1st to 4th
Some huge clashes! Summer is creeping into view, and that means beer gardens and big screens. And once again, the weekend will not disappoint with some huge Premier League fixtures as we reach the last few weeks, there is Leinster and Ulster SFC games, and the Irish provinces featuring in huge European semi-finals. Football Friday […]
Football
6h
Amazing scenes as pub reacts to crazy punch in big Spanish clash
Football