‘I don’t want this camp to be an extension of the last one’: Heimir Hallgrímsson ready to move on from Israel games

The Irish Times · Gavin Cooney · 2026-11-06 06:00 UTC

Irish manager says his squad learned a lot from the last camp, which is ‘behind us now’

And so Heimir Hallgrímsson and his Republic of Ireland squad re-emerge blinking into the sun with the storm of the last international window now passed.

Ireland conclude their Nations League campaign with games away to Austria and at home to Kosovo later this month, and Hallgrímsson is eager to leave the Israel games in the past.

“I don’t want this camp to be an extension of the last camp,” said the Irish manager at his squad announcement press conference on Thursday. Hallgrímsson returned to Iceland after the Israel games to decompress, and says he achieved closure on the whole ordeal when he completed his feedback for the FAI’s review of the camp.

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