Loss of Niamh Fahey is a blow but manager Eileen Gleeson has multiple choices
Tyler Toland's return from injury adds to Ireland's options as they prepare to begin their Euro campaign against France. Photograph: Ryan Byrne/Inpho’s Euro 2025 qualifying campaign against France in Metz on Friday, but the withdrawal of Niamh Fahey from her squad on Tuesday has put another one on the manager’s plate.
Gleeson has choices to make further up the pitch, too, the return of Tyler Toland, after a medial collateral ligament injury ruled her out of the Italy and Wales games, adding to her midfield choices. Toland had established herself, mainly alongside Megan Connolly, during the Nations League campaign, and is now hoping to win her place back.
“Thankfully everything is in the past now, I’m just looking to push on and look to the future. The past is in the past. Everyone wants to play for their country, don’t they? So it’s a dream come true to have come back in.” And game-time she has found, an ever-present for the Championship side when fit, and while they’re not in promotion contention, they’re comfortably mid-table – a marked improvement on their previous campaign when they finished third from bottom.
“So it’s worked out really well for me. One of my personal ambitions was to get myself back in the Ireland fold and I am sitting here today, so that has happened. Playing week in and week out, that is what I needed, and that is what has allowed me get back with Ireland.”
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