{"id":445246,"date":"2026-05-12T16:47:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T16:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/445246\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T16:47:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T16:47:11","slug":"alli-and-idah-on-target-as-ireland-warm-up-for-grenada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/445246\/","title":{"rendered":"Alli and Idah on target as Ireland warm up for Grenada"},"content":{"rendered":"

Real Murcia B 0-2 Republic of Ireland<\/p>\n

The Republic of Ireland have warmed up for Saturday’s international friendly encounter with Grenada in Spain with a 2-0 training game win over Real Murcia B.<\/p>\n

Played at the La Finca Resort Training Centre, Millenic Alli put Ireland ahead in the 18th minute \u2013 having had a goal ruled out for offside earlier in the half \u2013 with Adam Idah adding a second late on after coming on from the bench.<\/p>\n

Heimir Hallgrimsson used 17 players in all during the run out, with rising Irish star Rory Finneran getting his first taste of game action at senior international level.<\/p>\n

Finneran, who became Blackburn Rovers’ youngest ever player in January 2024 after making his debut as a 15-year-old in an FA Cup tie, played the first half and had a shot blocked down early on before being replaced by Conor Coventry.<\/p>\n

It marks another step forward in his career after the 18-year-old Newcastle midfielder was drafted into Hallgrimsson’s squad<\/a> last Friday following the withdrawals of Cardiff City defender Joel Bagan and Ipswich Town winger Kasey McAteer.<\/p>\n

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\nRory Finneran played the first half<\/p>\n

Speaking to FAI TV from Murcia, the former Ireland under-17 captain spoke of his excitement surrounding the opportunity.<\/p>\n

“Massively proud moment,” said the Manchester-born player who qualifies for Ireland as his father\u2019s family are from Sligo.<\/p>\n

“I didn\u2019t expect it. A late call in but a massive achievement for me and I\u2019m looking forward to the week.<\/p>\n

“I was on my day off [when finding out about the call-up], I was at home. I didn\u2019t reply for a couple of hours to the gaffer. I got a message and I spoke to him [Heimir] and he said he wanted me to come in.<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s good to get around the lads that play first team professional high level, it\u2019s good get around it and see what they do day to day,” he added.<\/p>\n

Having got a taste of the action with the squad, Finneran is now hoping that his competitive debut will quickly follow this weekend.<\/p>\n

“Obviously that\u2019s the goal for this week. It\u2019s up to me in training, doing what I can to impress and show what I can do at that level.”<\/p>\n

Republic of Ireland: Josh Keeley (Killian Cahill 46); Dara O’Shea, Mark McGuinness, James Abankwah; Tayo Adaramola (Adam Idah 73), Jason Knight (Jayson Molumby 46), Rory Finneran (Conor Coventry 46), Chiedozie Ogbene; Andrew Moran (Jack Moylan 46), Millenic Alli (Aidomo Emakhu 46), Adam Idah (Tom Cannon 46).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Real Murcia B 0-2 Republic of Ireland The Republic of Ireland have warmed up for Saturday’s international friendly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-445246","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\/445246","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=445246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}