Eighteen months after we listened to a manager delivering a key-note speech ahead of her international debut, some of those words came whistling in the wind from the Dublin mountains on Friday night.

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Every long journey starts with a single step and Carla Ward took a welcome stride in the right direction on her bow as head coach of the Republic of Ireland ...