David Wilson

Whilst Katie Whelan explained her situation with halfback partner Dana O'Brien.

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I'm David Wilson.

I'll be back with more tomorrow.

It's a long time since we accepted moral victories in Morton Stoke, considering the history and the success of the club.

Players won't feel that way.

They would have been going out to get a victory.

Well, here we are where nobody wanted to be.

It's the day after a drab, nil-all, friendly draw with North Macedonia at Lansdowne Road.

That's where ultimately our World Cup dreams went to die.

But the collective nature of enduring all this grief that we've all experienced together might just be the tonic to get us all through it.

I'm delighted to say I'm joined by our reporter slash...

Everything Irish football, Ben Symes, very welcome along.

How are you coping in this bit of a dreary week since the highs of Prague, at least before the game?

Yeah, I think it was a massive opportunity missed and ultimately we'll look back at this as a huge opportunity to get to the first World Cup for the men's team since 2002.

If you're wondering where Matthew Brennan is, we've sent him out on the ground, hard-hitting journalism, fact-finding mission assignment.

I actually don't know where he is.

He's trying to find himself.