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Adam Idah celebrates scoring his side’s third goal with James McClean. James Crombie/INPHO

Adam Idah ends Ireland drought to make it a sweet 16th

Striker praises manager Stephen Kenny for keeping the faith with him.

ADAM IDAH MADE sure to point out that he had heard of John Aldridge, but the former Ireland striker’s plight in front of goal at the start of his international career is not something anyone else has been bringing up with him as he endured his own struggles.

“No one has mentioned that to me. I know who he is but that’s a new one,” he said.

The 22-year-old broke his duck at senior level with the third in a comfortable 3-0 win over Gibraltar.

It came on the night of his 16th cap as he headed home from James McClean, who was celebrating his century.

It took Aldridge 19 caps to find the net back in the days of Jack Charlton and Idah made a point of expressing his delight not just at the milestone, but with going some way to repaying the faith shown in him by current boss Stephen Kenny.

“It’s tough when you haven’t scored and played a lot of games. But I’ve spoken to people and the main thing was to stay patient, goals will come. My job is to score goals and that’s probably the toughest part about it, not scoring, I’ve scored tonight and off the mark and now try and keep scoring,” the Norwich City front man continued.

“When you’re a new player in a team, it’s difficult. You don’t know the boys, you don’t really know the staff and playing in the stadium with all these fans you do feel quite nervous.

“But after a few games, you get used to it and it becomes more exciting every time I go on the pitch, especially in the Aviva is a great honour. It’s very exciting and you do get more confident the more games you play.

“Stephen has been great with me. I have been with Stephen since 18-years-old. He has shown great faith in me. I haven’t scored in a lot of games, for him to keep playing me and bringing me on gives me great confidence and belief.

“I’m delighted to score and to repay him for all he’s done for me. I’m very appreciative for what he has done.”

Ireland have their first points of this Euro 2024 qualifying campaign and now sit above The Netherlands on goal difference, although the Dutch have a game in hand.

Greece, who lost to France but deservedly beat Ireland on Friday, are in second with six points.

With Didier Deschamps’ side on 12 points from their first four games everyone is fighting for left overs, and Idah is adamant Ireland are capable of finishing with a flourish.

“Of course, I think everyone saw it last time we played France. We were outstanding. I know we didn’t win but we showed we can put up a test against these big teams.

“It’s up to us at the end of the day to finish that. I believe and I think everyone else believes we can go and do it. The next step is to go and show what we are about.”

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    Jun 29th 2013, 6:07 PM

    Mon the dubs

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    Jun 29th 2013, 6:56 PM

    Come on Dublin… Greatest city & people in the world

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    Jun 29th 2013, 8:40 PM

    Greatest City and people in the world? LOL. Thats a good one John Boy.

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    Jun 29th 2013, 9:04 PM

    John your a stinking Muldoon

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    Jun 29th 2013, 6:15 PM

    C’mon the Dubs!

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    Jun 29th 2013, 8:29 PM

    They’ve done it!!

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    Jun 29th 2013, 8:01 PM

    Fintan will you put the match clock on instead of the time

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    Jun 29th 2013, 6:31 PM

    Is there anyway I can watch this online from sites that don’t block outside of Ireland viewers as i live in the uk ? Really wanna see this match

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    Jun 29th 2013, 6:36 PM

    Vipbox might

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    Jun 29th 2013, 7:08 PM

    yeah il check it out, thanks

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    Jun 29th 2013, 7:42 PM

    Rte are showing it live on rte player. Dublin up by four at half time. As a tipp man I don’t know whether to be excited or terrified at the prospect of meeting kk at knockout stage!

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    Jun 29th 2013, 7:57 PM

    http://tykestv.eu/streams/xtra/xtra4/ galway v tipp game. This game should be on there somewhere too.

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    Jun 29th 2013, 8:49 PM

    Killkenny perfecting the art of cheating. They are playing the hurl, tapping helmets, chopping etc constantly.

    Aside from that, they introduced scrumming into the game, so much so it’s hard to watch it now- hurling was far better before KK’s success.

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    Jun 29th 2013, 8:09 PM

    Gooooooooaaaaaaaalllllll!!!!!!!!

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    Jun 29th 2013, 6:16 PM

    Kk by 9+

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    Jun 29th 2013, 8:49 PM

    dubs by 1/2 past 8 :)

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    Jun 29th 2013, 6:51 PM

    Come on the Cats

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    Jun 29th 2013, 6:58 PM

    Disgruntled Dub hating culchie!!

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    Jun 29th 2013, 8:26 PM

    Cmon Dublin. Great year for the underdog so far

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    Jun 29th 2013, 8:10 PM

    Come on ye boyiz in blue!!! Beat those cats. Ye can do it!!

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    Jun 29th 2013, 8:17 PM

    Loving the live feed would be fecked if we were relying on RTE

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    Jun 29th 2013, 6:05 PM

    I think it will another close encounter, KK by 3.

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    Jun 29th 2013, 6:33 PM

    Does rte.ie block?

    You could ask on boards.ie for a live feed and someone will give you a link.

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    Mute Lucy
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    Jun 29th 2013, 7:03 PM

    Sorry replied to the wrong coment :/

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    Jun 29th 2013, 7:34 PM

    Where is this live???

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    Jun 29th 2013, 8:03 PM

    Portlaoise.

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    Jun 29th 2013, 8:04 PM

    @phuq

    Cheeky pup ;)

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    Jun 29th 2013, 8:20 PM

    where are all these new kk faces .Im pretty sure they all made there debuts in last years champ and have an all ireland in their back pockets .

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    Jun 29th 2013, 7:45 PM

    Poor game, Killkenny should pull away in the second half with the wind.Some of the new faces on killkenny team dont look up it!!

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    Jun 29th 2013, 7:59 PM

    Kk are playing against the wind this half, no? Pretty sure the breeze is against them.

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    Jun 29th 2013, 11:45 PM

    Just watching it on RTE.ie and thats what Commentator said???

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    Jun 29th 2013, 6:19 PM

    Is it on the tv ?

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    Jun 29th 2013, 6:22 PM

    No Monaghan Cavan on d box, net for hurling game

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    Jun 29th 2013, 6:34 PM

    Rte.ie have a live feed starting at 6:45.

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    Jun 29th 2013, 6:38 PM

    Ah crap. In the pub and wanted to watch it :-(

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    Jun 29th 2013, 7:37 PM

    Rte.ie to watch a Dublin match what a joke the stream doesn’t even work,not good enough for tv I guess

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    Jun 29th 2013, 7:37 PM

    Rte.ie to watch a Dublin match what a joke the stream doesn’t even work,not good enough for tv I guess

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