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Seán O'Connor: History beckons for Ireland U-21s after impressing in Croatia camp
Having gone incredibly close to breaking that glass ceiling in the last campaign, falling to a penalty shoot-out defeat against Israel in September 2023, the young Boys in Green were drawn in, as boss Jim Crawford put it, an “exceptionally tough” group for …