A FIXTURES DILEMMA faces Aidan O’Shea ahead of next weekend’s second International Rules test.
Ireland face Australia next Saturday night in Croke Park with O’Shea having been part of Paul Earley’s 23-man squad that enjoyed a 57-35 victory in last Saturday’s first test at Kingspan Breffni Park.
But next Sunday his club Breaffy are involved in the Mayo county senior football final against Castlebar Mitchels at Elverys MacHale Park.
The game is a massive occasion for Breaffy as it marks their first ever appearance in a Mayo senior decider.
O’Shea netted the only goal of the game when Breaffy got the better of Charlestown by 1-15 to 1-6 in their semi-final tie last Sunday week.
The Mayo midfielder was an interchange player when Ireland won last Saturday’s first International Rules test but could now be unavailable for selection for the second test.
The issue had cropped up last weekend for Donegal’s Michael Murphy and AFL Carlton player Zach Tuohy but both did line out for Ireland in last Saturday’s match.
And on Sunday, Murphy struck 1-5 to help his club Glenswilly win the Donegal senior football decider while Tuohy came on as a substitute when Portlaoise completed a seven-in-a-row of county senior titles against Arles-Killeen in O’Moore Park.
Great to see Robbie in form, in a decent league pre Euros… But let’s hope trap is paying attention to the fine performances of ciaran Clarke too!
Ciaran Clark has to go to the Euros. He will be important in the WC 2014 qualifiers and a good player for us for years to come hopefully. His goal in the cup a few weeks ago was class.
Keane is getting some great confidence boosters here. Hopefully this can continue to the summer. But defender and goalkeeper need to up the game. (oshea and given).
Pilkington of Norwich is class and should be in traps squad aswell
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Keane is on fire two absolutely top drawer goals and was Scholes like playing in front of mid field.
I think an important question to ask is why Robbie Keane joined LA Galaxy if he still can play at a decent level if not the premiere league then surely the championship is better quality then the MLS…