Teenage Bohemians midfielder Aoibhe Brennan has earned her first call-up to the Republic of Ireland senior squad for their World Cup 2027 qualifying double-header against Poland in April.<\/p>\n
The 18-year-old has featured for the Republic of Ireland at under-19 level and has had an impressive start to the Premier Division season with Dublin club Bohs.<\/p>\n
“I’ve spoken about her a few times sine I’ve taken over and in a development game in February last year she really impressed me and I remember walking away and saying to the staff she’s someone I really like and I’ve watched her a lot since,” manager Carla Ward said.<\/p>\n
“She does the basics very well and plays beyond her years and I’m really interested to see how she’ll do in this environment.”<\/p>\n
There are returns to the squad for West Ham’s Jess Ziu and Durham’s Lily Agg, who is included for the first time since 2024 after recovering from a serious knee injury, although Ward did confirm she and Jessie Stapleton will go for scans on Monday after knocks picked up playing for their club sides at the weekend.<\/p>\n
Hayley Nolan and Jamie Finn are not included in Ward’s 24-strong contingent.<\/p>\n
The Irish will travel to Gdansk to take on Poland on Tuesday, 14 April before they host the same opponents at the Aviva Stadium four days later.<\/p>\n
Ward’s side are of bottom of Group A2 after falling to narrow defeats against France and the Netherlands in their opening two qualifiers and she believes Poland will provide a stern test with Barcelona forward Ewa Pajor leading the line.<\/p>\n
“They’ve really progressed in recent years and have been one of the most progressive nations with the ball in my opinion and they’re very aggressive in transition. <\/p>\n
“You have Pajor who scored a brace against Real Madrid midweek and was outstanding. She is someone we have to stop, but they have quality everywhere and it would be na\u00efve to think this is a given we have to earn the right to play and win the game.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Teenage Bohemians midfielder Aoibhe Brennan has earned her first call-up to the Republic of Ireland senior squad for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-373299","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373299","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=373299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}