IRELAND MANAGER Martin O’Neill is very much focused on the crucial World Cup qualifier with Wales in March.

“We’re hanging in in at the moment,” O’Neill said on last night’s Late Late Show.

“We’ve played four games in the qualifying, three of them away from home.

“We’ve got 10 points from 12, which is great for us at this moment, maybe more than we could have bargained for. It’s a tough old group but we’re in there fighting.

“Naturally I’m very concerned about it,” he said when asked about the game against Chris Coleman’s Euro 2016 heroes.

“As it gets closer I get more concerned.  Way back when we beat Austria in Vienna in March I thought, ‘March,  you know, it will never come’, but it’s coming around now very, very quick.

“My concern is trying to win the game. That’s sort of a major concern. To be perfectly honest, that’s my only concern. It’s called job saving.”

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