Under-17 Squad

**elatedscum** · 13/02/2024, 1:45 AM

Originally Posted by Razors left peg

Rory Finneran being part of it after making his Blackburn debut recently is exciting

Great to see. Only lad I�m unfamiliar with is Daniel Ring. The squad is missing guys like Kaylem Harnett, Mason Melia, Ike Orazi, Jayden Umeh and Ade Solanke - presumably a mix of guys playing first team football (Melia, Harnett?) with guys injured or not released by their clubs

**JR89** · 12/07/2024, 9:23 PM

https://archive.ph/hWMue

Dan McDonnell piece with Matthew Moore and Finn Sherlock who are both at Hoffenheim.

**JR89** · 13/07/2024, 10:09 AM

**JR89** · 02/09/2024, 10:30 AM

Goalkeepers: Alex Noonan (Shamrock Rovers), Ali Topcu (Shelbourne)

Defenders: Billy Canny (St. Patrick�s Athletic), Ben Dumigan (Cork City), Oisin McDonagh (Venezia FC), Muhammad Oladiti (Shamrock Rovers), Ade Solanke (Shamrock Rovers), Finn Sherlock (Hoffenheim), Sam Steward (St. Patrick�s Athletic)

Midfielders: Brody Lee (Shamrock Rovers), Ramon Martos (UD Almeria), Grady McDonnell (Vancouver FC), Kian McMahon Brown (Burnley), Goodness Ogbonna (Shamrock Rovers), Oskar Skoubo Keely (Bohemians), Killian Ryan (Shelbourne)

Forwards: Luke Chukwu (St. Patrick�s Athletic), Michael Noonan (St. Patrick�s Athletic), Billy O�Neil (Bray Wanderers), Sam Rooney (St. Patrick�s Athletic)

**elatedscum** · 02/09/2024, 11:24 AM

Good squad as always for that age group. The big names that are missing are Jaden Umeh who had that horror injury recently and Rory Finneran who I would have thought would have been with the 19s but he�s not there either.

Ben Dumigan is a new name to me

**nigel-harps1954** · 02/09/2024, 9:40 PM

Surprised not to see Gavin McAteer of Finn Harps on there. Tom Mohan has spoke very highly of him, and thought he was a shoe in for upcoming 17's international window after making 10 appearances so far this season in the First Division, despite only turning 16 this summer.

**tetsujin1979** · 05/09/2024, 6:59 PM

Under 17s playing Denmark in Spain tonight

**elatedscum** · 06/09/2024, 3:48 AM

Lost 2-1 apparently. I�d be starting Topcu, Oladiti and Martos ahead of Noonan, Canny and Skoubo Keely.

Hopefully Umeh and Finneran will be allowed to represent us in the qualifiers if fit - they�re weirdly not in an international window this year (end of october / early November in Northern Ireland) - so presumably clubs have no obligation to release players.

Grady O�Donnell is probably the only other who is really at risk in that respect

**JR89** · 17/09/2024, 9:25 PM

Michael Noonan scored his first senior goals grabbing two in Pats 3-1 win over Maynooth town in the LSC to advance to the final. Only just turned 16 and became their youngest ever senior player back in May when he also played in LSC.

**liamoo11** · 17/09/2024, 10:34 PM

Originally Posted by JR89

Michael Noonan scored his first senior goals grabbing two in Pats 3-1 win over Maynooth town in the LSC to advance to the final. Only just turned 16 and became their youngest ever senior player back in May when he also played in LSC.

Will it be difficult for him to have much involvement , Pats seem to have good central striker options

**Acornvilla** · 24/09/2024, 6:56 AM

Originally Posted by liamoo11

Will it be difficult for him to have much involvement , Pats seem to have good central striker options

We'll see next year, he'll probably get a chance to start the LSC final at least before then.

**tetsujin1979** · 25/09/2024, 1:59 PM

Luke O'Donnell signs for Wolves
https://www.wolves.co.uk/news/academ...nnell-signing/

**tetsujin1979** · 19/10/2024, 10:57 AM

Oisin McDonagh interviewed in the independent about his move to Italy
https://www.independent.ie/sport/soc...145202528.html

**seanfhear** · 19/10/2024, 11:06 AM

From the BBC football rumours page.

" Manchester City are in advanced talks to sign Republic of Ireland Under-17 forward Michael Noonan, 16, from St Patrick's Athletic. (Fabrizio Romano) "

**Eirambler** · 28/10/2024, 6:07 PM

Looks like Noonan has now signed for Man City judging by his mum's twitter.

**Eirambler** · 01/12/2024, 8:20 PM

Not sure if this is quite the right place for this, but I see that former Irish Under 17 international Paul Lawless has been elected to the Dail. He's was in the same age group as Jeff Hendrick and Mark O'Brien and the three were all on the books at Derby County together. Will be interesting to see if having someone with a football background will make any difference in terms of funding etc., though he will be in opposition I'd assume.

**tetsujin1979** · 01/12/2024, 8:26 PM

Are you sure it's the same guy? His age is reported as 27, Hendrick and O'Brien are both 32

<EDIT>
Actually his age is reported as 32 as well. Seems the 27 comes from his profile on aontu's website, which probably should be updated.

**Eirambler** · 01/12/2024, 8:32 PM

Yeah, it's the same person, he was 27 five years ago as well!

https://midwestradio.ie/index.php/ne...cipal-district

**tetsujin1979** · 18/02/2025, 9:52 PM

The U17s played two friendlies in Spain last week, losing to Finland, and beating Hungary
https://www.fai.ie/latest/report-mu1...d-0-3-finland/
https://www.fai.ie/latest/report-mu1...y-3-4-ireland/

**elatedscum** · 19/02/2025, 2:50 AM

Originally Posted by tetsujin1979

The U17s played two friendlies in Spain last week, losing to Finland, and beating Hungary
https://www.fai.ie/latest/report-mu1...d-0-3-finland/
https://www.fai.ie/latest/report-mu1...y-3-4-ireland/

A lot of u16s in that squad. I wonder was the issue getting release from clubs or what the situation was - but missing:

Alex Noonan

Oladiti
Steward
Solanke
Sherlock

McDonnell

J Umeh
Michael Noonan

Those are 8 lads I'd expect in my squad (Steward has been left out of recent squads for whatever reason, so wouldn't be surprised if that happened again).

Meanwhile, there were 6 u16s in the squad (Brunton, Moloney, Gabbidon, Spaight, Sullivan, Dunne)