{"id":438939,"date":"2026-05-08T16:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T16:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/438939\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T16:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T16:03:08","slug":"teenager-rory-finneran-added-to-ireland-squad-for-spain-camp-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/438939\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenager Rory Finneran added to Ireland squad for Spain camp \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/heimir-hallgrimsson\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/heimir-hallgrimsson\/\">Heimir Hallgr\u00edmsson<\/a> has added a second member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/republic-of-ireland-mnt\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/republic-of-ireland-mnt\/\">Republic of Ireland<\/a> under-17 squad that competed at last year\u2019s World Cup in Qatar with Newcastle United midfielder Rory Finneran joining Jaden Umeh at La Finca resort in Spain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Both teenagers are now in contention to make senior debuts when Ireland face Grenada in a friendly in Murcia next Saturday. Hallgr\u00edmsson\u2019s squad will also play a warm-up match against Real Murcia at Estadio Nueva Condomina on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The Manchester-born Finneran (18) came to prominence when Blackburn Rovers made him their youngest ever player, at 15 years, 10 months and eight days, against Cambridge United in an FA Cup tie in January 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Cardiff City defender Joel Bagan and Ipswich Town winger Kasey McAteer are the latest players to withdraw from Ireland\u2019s warm weather camp. Bosun Lawal, Jimmy Dunne and Gavin Bazunu were already ruled out, while it was decided to rest Sammie Szmodics, Harvey Vale and Jack Taylor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A squad for two more friendlies, against Qatar in Dublin on May 28th and Canada in Toronto on June 6th, will be announced on Sunday week. The expanded group is expected to include Premier League players like Everton\u2019s Jake O\u2019Brien and Brentford pair Nathan Collins and Caoimh\u00edn Kelleher. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Republic of Ireland Squad \u2013 Grenada International Friendly<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Goalkeepers: Max O\u2019Leary (West Bromwich Albion), Josh Keeley (Luton Town), Killian Cahill (Leyton Orient).<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Defenders: Dara O\u2019Shea (Ipswich Town), Eiran Cashin (Blackburn Rovers \u2013 loan), James Abankwah (Watford), Mark McGuinness (Sheffield United), Tayo Adaramola (Sheffield Wednesday \u2013 loan).<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Midfielders: Jayson Molumby (West Bromwich Albion), Jason Knight (Bristol City), Conor Coventry (Charlton Athletic), Andrew Moran (Preston North End), Rory Finneran (Newcastle United).<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Forwards: Adam Idah (Swansea City), Tom Cannon (Sheffield United), Chiedozie Ogbene (Sheffield United \u2013 loan), Millenic Alli (Portsmouth), Jack Moylan (Lincoln City), Aidomo Emakhu (Oxford United), Jaden Umeh (Benfica).<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Fixtures \u2013 International Friendly<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">May 16th &#8211; Ireland v Grenada, Estadio Nueva Condomina, 5pm (6pm local)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Heimir Hallgr\u00edmsson has added a second member of the Republic of Ireland under-17 squad that competed at last&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4700,61,60,43,1842],"class_list":["post-438939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-heimir-hallgrimsson","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-republic-of-ireland-mnt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438939","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=438939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}