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Thu 04 Apr 2003No hard luck stories but hard work to be done
EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP/Group 10: Players' reaction:Emmet Malone finds the Irish team still in hopeful mood despite initial disappointment with last night's draw.
If most within the Irish camp had erred on the side of caution when asked what the team needed to achieve on this trip, Mark Kinsella had never left any doubt regarding his view that anything less than six points from the past four days would represent a blow to the Republic's chances of making it out of what looks increasingly like being an uncomfortably tight qualification group.
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