JONATHAN WALTERS AND Robbie Keane are expected to re-join Ireland training on Monday after sitting out a number of sessions due to achilles and calf problems respectively.

Stoke City striker Walters has been nursing an achilles problem in the last week after a feeling a ‘little tenderness’.

However, having carried out work separately with the team’s medical staff, the 32-year-old is confident that he will be ready to train in the week ahead of Ireland’s Group E opener against Sweden.

“I had an operation on my knee about seven weeks ago and when you come back you tend to have secondary little things,” Walters told FAI TV.

“I had a little tenderness in both achilles [tendons], a bit of tendonitis, and out on the training ground it flares up a little bit and you’ve just got to settle it down.

“You don’t want to push through [the pain] and go into the week leading up to the game. So I’ve just been working in the gym for a couple of days – pretty tough – and I’m looking forward to training again on Monday.”

Keane, meanwhile, is on the road to recovery after sustaining a calf strain ahead of the friendly defeat to Belarus at Turner’s Cross last Tuesday.

Ireland yesterday returned to their Abbotstown base after a training camp at Cork’s Fota Island resort last week.

The squad then fly to Versailles on Wednesday, where they will spend three days training before travelling to Paris for the campaign opener against Sweden.

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