Gary Breen

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Ireland players celebrate after qualifying for the 2002 World Cup after their playoff against Iran in Tehran. Photograph: Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images
Brawls to handballs: The complete guide to Ireland’s playoff history

1966 World Cup Irish goalkeeper Pat Dunne can only watch as Jose Antonio Ufarte scores the only goal of the playoff for the 1966 World Cup (...)

Roy Keane was sent home by manager Mick McCarthy from the 2002 World Cup. Photograph: Inpho
Sporting Controversies: The whole story of Saipan and how the saga unfolded

It was three o’clock in the morning in a noodle bar by the train station in Daejeon when I ran into an English reporter I’d shared a hotel with at the(...)

Ireland manager Mick McCarthy has yet to meet Leeds United’s Patrick Bamford. Photograph: George Wood/Getty Images
International indecision nothing new for McCarthy

As Mick McCarthy prepares to name the first senior squad of his second spell in charge of Ireland on Thursday, a meeting with Leeds United’s Patrick B(...)

“It’s not nice and you feel like you’ve let people down . . . it is terrible to go through and you just have to accept it,” says Wolves striker Kevin Doyle, who has been relegated three times in his career. Photograph: Getty.
Burnley’s Stephen Ward is striving to beat the drop

Preparing to leave Burnley’s Gawthorpe Hall training ground after another morning workout, Stephen Ward flashes a wide grin having shared a joke with (...)