Right now, a lot of people are convinced that this Irish team is dangerously old. That they have been allowed grow old together and that, the way things are going, Ireland are going to be too old at the next World Cup. I was 34 at the last World Cup. Photograph: Billy Stickland/InphoPeople think about the World Cup as a four-year cycle, but that shouldn’t mean four years of sacrificing everything to build for the next tournament. At the World Cup, we made too many mistakes.

Source: The Irish Times November 14, 2025 13:32 UTC