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Northern Ireland are taking part in their first ever European Championships later this month; Kenny Shiels side face Austria, Norway and hosts England in ...

But Northern Ireland are at the stage where they're excited, focused and looking forward to their debut in this tournament. It will take a lot more than a toe injury to keep her out having not experienced this with Northern Ireland before. Meanwhile, in their warm-up game against Belgium, they competed for about 60 minutes, where it was tight at 1-1 and there wasn't much between the teams. There's a lot of excitement and reasons to be positive even though Northern Ireland are massive underdogs. But for Northern Ireland, a fourth seed team punching above their weight, the achievement this summer is just getting to the tournament. Shiels wasn't happy that he only had one warm-up game - a 4-1 defeat against Belgium - and he wanted more.