Ireland u15 1 Holland u15 1

Ireland's u15s came within three minutes of recording a win against the highly-rated Dutch in Dublin yesterday.

Ahead from the 29th minute, Vinny Butler's kids maintained their lead until the 77th minute of this 80-minute game, when substitute Tom Daemen curled a free kick into the top corner of the Irish net - ironically, past Ireland's Dutch-born 'keeper Tony Emmelkamp, who had been on the field less than a minute.

Ireland dominated the opening exchanges in the rearranged match at Cathal Brugha Barracks in Rathmines - postponed because of flooding the previous day.

William Flood missed two good chances to put the home team into an early lead, before Belvedere's Andrew Cousins - younger brother of Shamrock Rovers' Tony - made the breakthrough.

The sides meet again at Sundrive Park this afternoon.

Republic of Ireland: Murphy (Seatown), Matthews (St. Joseph's Boys), Keyes (Belvedere), Tyrrell (Belvedere), Flynn (St. Joseph's Boys), Cousins (Belvedere), Flood (Manchester City), Ryan (Belvedere), Draycott (Swindon Town), Treacy (Preston), Thornton (Cherry Orchard)

Subs: Cassidy (Home Farm) for Treacy (42 mins), Mulligan (Belvedere) for Thornton (57 mins), Murphy (All Blacks) for Ryan (70 mins), Regan (Castleisland) for Flood (70 mins), Quigley (Lourdes Celtic) for Matthews (76 mins), Hutton (Peterborough) for Keyes (76 mins), Emmelkamp (Elinkwik) for Murphy (76 mins)

Holland: Brack, Bles, Van der Boogaart, Sardar, Artz, Mulder, Velten, Blonk, Slagter, Sabayo, Neslo

Subs: Molly for Neslo (39 mins), Daemen for Velten (50 mins), Hendriks for Sabayo (57 mins), Driessbhe for Molly (65 mins)

Referee: J Feighery (Dublin)