16 have come through the League of Ireland pyramid<\/a>, with 12 currently lining out for LOI sides, with the remainder playing for Benfica, Hoffenheim, Venezia, Southampton, FC Lorient, Newcastle United, UD Almeria, Club Brugge and Burnley.<\/p>\n“The heat and humidity obviously will be a factor,” manager Colin O’Brien told RT\u00c9 Sport this week. “We’ve planned for that. We’ve added performance support staff to the backroom team.<\/p>\n
“We’ve utilised the international windows. We qualified at the end of March and brought the players away to Croatia to really hot temperatures in June.<\/p>\n
“Then we went to the Czech Republic in September, again, warm conditions. We were recently away in Pinar, in Spain for our final double-header.<\/p>\n
“So they’ve been exposed to how to prepare to play in the heat.<\/p>\n
“The supports are there for them within the squad and they’ve also been given plenty of educational tools to look at when they’re with their club as well, so that they’ll be prepared for it.”<\/p>\n
Should Ireland qualify for the knockout stages, broadcast details will be confirmed at a later date.<\/p>\n
Watch Republic of Ireland v Belgium in the UEFA Women’s Nations League play-offs on Friday from 6.30pm on RT\u00c92 and RT\u00c9 Player. Follow a live blog on the RT\u00c9 News App and on rte.ie\/sport. Listen to live radio commentary on an extended Game On with 2fm<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Republic of Ireland’s debut at the Under-17 World Cup will be shown live on RT\u00c92 and the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,19,17,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-140787","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115424149179357074","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}