Robbie Brady: Republic of Ireland have nothing to fear against France

The win set Ireland up for a rematch with the French, seven years on from the infamous Thierry Henry handball that knocked the Irish out in a World Cup qualifying play-off.

“I think the chance Wes had before, it was a massive moment but the ball got caught under his feet a bit”. “Everyone involved in delivering coverage of the UEFA EURO 2016 championship is hugely encouraged that such large numbers of viewers continue to choose RTÉ as the place to see national teams compete and unite to share the experience and we look forward to bringing viewers live coverage of what’s sure to be an exciting game against France”. We have managed to beat some of the best teams in the world, so I don’t think we have anything to fear going into the weekend. A lot of players would have had their head down after that, or sulked, but he got on with it and what a delivery.

Second-placed Belgium facing Hungary in the next round after they overcame Sweden 1-0.

It also justified manager O’Neill’s decision to make four changes to his starting line-up, including completely changing his central defence, where Shane Duffy of Blackburn Rovers held his nerve brilliantly in his first competitive worldwide.

“You would’ve thought that Duffy was playing in his 35th worldwide”.

Republic of Ireland defender Seamus Coleman says that he will “forever remember” the night that his team advanced into the knockout round of Euro 2016.

“It does seem a disproportionate amount of time that one team has to recover from another and that might become very, very important”, O’Neill said. “It will be a talking point obviously, but I don’t think it will concern us when we play the game”.

“This is tournament football”. “I think the Irish fans have been in such good humour that it will be a jocular kind of thing. Move on”, said the veteran striker. “We have won the game, we deserved to win it and we dominated for incredible periods of the game and played some phenomenal stuff”.

“Perhaps we were punished when we were on top of the game, that’s when we conceded”.