{"id":146374,"date":"2025-11-18T12:48:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T12:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/146374\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T12:48:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T12:48:07","slug":"ohanlon-back-in-ireland-fold-brady-gets-first-call-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/146374\/","title":{"rendered":"O’Hanlon back in Ireland fold, Brady gets first call-up"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tara O’Hanlon is back in the Republic of Ireland squad for the first time in over two and a half years, while Kelly Brady has received her first full call-up for the friendly against Hungary in Spain later this month.<\/p>\n

O’Hanlon has endured a dreadful run of injuries. She featured for the Girls in Green against the USA in April 2023 but has not been a part of the squad since due to knee and hamstring setbacks.<\/p>\n

On loan at WSL2 side Sunderland from Manchester City, the ex-Peamount United player is getting badly needed time, and has received a major boost today after being included in the 23-player squad for the trip to Marbella.<\/p>\n

Former Ireland Under-19 striker Brady trained with the squad before the Nations League promotion\/relegation play-off against Belgium.<\/p>\n

The 23-year-old forward picked up the SSE Airtricity Women’s Premier Division Player of the Year award<\/a> last Friday following an outstanding season with Athlone Town. She’s listed as a free agent in the squad, with a winter move away from the midlands looking likely.<\/p>\n

Goalkeeper Courtney Brosnan and forward Leanne Kiernan are also back in the fold having missed the victory over Belgium<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Heather Payne (achilles) and Megan Connolly (foot) are out along with midfielder Lily Agg (knee), while Jess Ziu and Amber Barrett are being afforded extra time to recover from knocks.<\/p>\n

The squad will gather at their training base in Spain on Monday 24 November and then face Hungary for the 10th time at women\u2019s senior level the following Saturday.<\/p>\n

The game will not be open to the general public.<\/p>\n

Ireland are making a habit of heading to Marbella for end of\/early year camps.<\/p>\n

In November 2022, under Vera Pauw, they went there for a game against Morocco, which they won 4-0. Pauw brought the side back there in February 2023 to play out a scoreless draw with China.<\/p>\n

Optimism is high heading towards 2026 after the impressive defeat of Belgium.<\/p>\n

That victory lifted Ireland into League A and ensured they’d be going up against the big guns in World Cup qualification, which starts in March with a home clash against France.<\/p>\n

Ireland then travel to the Netherlands, before an April double-header against Poland, and June meetings with the Dutch and French.<\/p>\n

Their Nations League promotion means Ireland are guaranteed a place in the play-offs even if they finish fourth in the group.<\/p>\n

Republic of Ireland squad<\/p>\n

Goalkeepers: Courtney Brosnan (Everton), Grace Moloney (Sunderland), Sophie Whitehouse (Charlton Athletic)<\/p>\n

Defenders: Aoife Mannion (Newcastle United), Jessie Stapleton (Nottingham Forest \u2013 on loan), Anna Patten (Aston Villa), Caitlin Hayes (Brighton & Hove Albion), Hayley Nolan (Crystal Palace), Chloe Mustaki (Nottingham Forest), Tara O’Hanlon (Sunderland \u2013 on loan), Katie McCabe (Arsenal)<\/p>\n

Midfielders: Denise O’Sullivan (North Carolina Courage), Ruesha Littlejohn (Crystal Palace), Jamie Finn (Sunderland), Tyler Toland (Durham), Marissa Sheva (Sunderland), Lucy Quinn (Birmingham City)<\/p>\n

Forwards: Kyra Carusa (San Diego Wave), Abbie Larkin (Crystal Palace), Emily Murphy (Newcastle United), Saoirse Noonan (Celtic), Leanne Kiernan (Liverpool), Kelly Brady (free agent)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tara O’Hanlon is back in the Republic of Ireland squad for the first time in over two and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-146374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}