Never before has a de-facto League of Ireland X1 appeared in a major tournament.
They travel to that tournament in Hungary more in expectation than hope, O’Brien refusing to place any “limits” on how deep they may go in the tournament, remembering when Brian Kerr’s Irish Under 16s etched their name onto the trophy way back in 1998.
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