“Every Irish club wants to qualify for Europe andwe are no different”

“As a youngster you grew up in Galway in the West of Ireland, so how did you come to the attention of Arsenal as a youth player?

I played Gaelic football when I was young and of course I also played soccer for my local club, Newcastle. We have an annual competition in Ireland called the Kennedy Cup where all the top schoolboy teams play. I must have impressed Arsenal’s Liam Brady, who was saw me play.

How did you get on at Highbury?

To be honest I didn’t make the grade. Patrick Cregg, who joined Arsenal around the same time and is now my assistant at Dundalk, made