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Aoibheann Clancy of Shelbourne. Photo by Paul Phelan\/Sportsfile<\/p>\n
Shamrock Rovers\u2019 Maria Reynolds has been called up by Carla Ward to the Ireland women\u2019s squad as a replacement for the injured Jessie Stapleton ahead of the World Cup qualification double-header with Poland.<\/p>\n
And the domestic representation has been doubled after Shelbourne\u2019s Aoibheann Clancy, once capped against Morocco in 2022, also drafted in, though Bohs\u2019 Aoibhe Brennan has been forced to miss out due to an ankle injury sustained last week.<\/p>\n
Reynolds has been with the Tallaght side since their ascension to the league and has played extensively for Ireland underage sides in a career once interrupted by serious injury.<\/p>\n
Stapleton limped out of Nottingham Forest\u2019s game against Durham last month, a fixture that also prompted a catastrophic setback for experienced midfielder Lily Agg, who had been slowly recuperating from an ACL.<\/p>\n
She ruptured her Achilles tendon in that game and will face another testing time on the sidelines. Ahead of her ACL surgery, she also received a diagnosis of melanoma.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople close to me keep saying I\u2019ll come back stronger again,\u201d she said in a social media post. \u201cIf I\u2019m being honest, right now I genuinely don\u2019t know if I will come back at all.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ll be another year older, out of contract in June, with an ACL and Achilles rupture behind me in the last two years. I\u2019m not naive. The game is changing, and I know I\u2019ll be a risk many won\u2019t want to take a chance on.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy heart is broken and my head hurts.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo everyone who has believed in me, supported me and valued me as a player and person \u2013 thank you, it has meant more than you will ever know.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sunderland\u2019s Jamie Finn, who had been originally omitted after struggling for game-time, started last week\u2019s defeat to Birmingham in WSL 2 and will replace Agg.<\/p>\n
Ireland travel to Gdansk for the first game next Tuesday before the return on Saturday week in the Aviva.<\/p>\n
Ward\u2019s side will seek to overcome a current one-point deficit in qualifying as they seek a favourable 2027 World Cup play-off route later this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aoibheann Clancy of Shelbourne. Photo by Paul Phelan\/Sportsfile Shamrock Rovers\u2019 Maria Reynolds has been called up by Carla…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386376,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,898,43],"class_list":["post-386375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news-ticker","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386375","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=386375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}