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It has been a tough campaign for the Candystripes but they had something to cheer about after Michael Duffy did his thing in a 4-2 win over Dundalk on Sunday.<\/p>\n
That victory sees them reach the FAI Cup semi-finals and they will travel to take on Galway United at the end of this month.<\/p>\n
Mark Connolly offers James McClean update<\/p>\n
Connolly spoke to RT\u00c9’s Tony O’Donoghue after the win, and was asked about whether the decorated Ireland international could be restored to the matchday squad with a potential FAI Cup success in their grasp.<\/p>\n
However the former Derry veteran was cryptic in his response, giving little clear indication that McClean could return to the pitch in a competitive capacity.<\/p>\n
James has been training like you said, but we have just stuck with the same squad over the last few weeks as you can see,” he said.<\/p>\n
“At the moment, this is just where we are… Obviously he wasn’t in the squad today and that is just where we are at.<\/p>\n
“Every player is always considered but that is just where the squad was and what we picked.”<\/p>\n
Derry City last won the FAI Cup in 2022 and McClean was famously in attendance as a supporter on the day as he cheered on what was, at the time, his former side.<\/p>\n
SEE ALSO: Martin O’Neill Paid Emotional Tribute To Liam Scales After Celtic Heroics<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James McClean remains training with Derry City despite widespread reports that his contract with the club had been…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,55018,112],"class_list":["post-616953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-james-mcclean","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616953","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=616953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}