Blues midfielder Alan Judge has been named in a 39-man provisional Republic of Ireland squad ahead of their November matches against New Zealand and Denmark.

Mick McCarthy’s Ireland play a friendly against the All Whites on Thursday 14th November then four days later take on the Danes in a vital final Euro 2020 qualifier. Both games are at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin.

Judge, 30, has previously won eight full caps and has scored one international goal. Former Blues David McGoldrick, now with Sheffield United, and Conor Hourihane, currently with Aston Villa, have also been selected in the squad.

Town are due to play Oxford United at the Kassam Stadium on Saturday 16th November but that game appears all but certain to be postponed due to international calls.

Republic of Ireland: Darren Randolph (Middlesbrough), Mark Travers (AFC Bournemouth), Kieran O’Hara (Burton Albion, on loan from Manchester United), Keiren Westwood (Sheffield Wednesday), Caoimhin Kelleher (Liverpool), Matt Doherty (Wolves), Cyrus Christie (Fulham), John Egan (Sheffield United), Shane Duffy (Brighton & Hove Albion), Kevin Long (Burnley), Enda Stevens (Sheffield United), Darragh Lenihan (Blackburn Rovers), Ciaran Clark (Newcastle United), Derrick Williams (Blackburn Rovers), Ryan Manning (QPR), Nathan Collins (Stoke City), Callum O’Dowda (Bristol City), Conor Hourihane (Aston Villa), Josh Cullen (Charlton Athletic, on loan from West Ham United), Glenn Whelan (Hearts), Alan Browne (Preston North End), Robbie Brady (Burnley), James McClean (Stoke City), Jeff Hendrick (Burnley), James McCarthy (Crystal Palace), Alan Judge (Ipswich Town), Jack Byrne (Shamrock Rovers), Aaron Connolly (Brighton & Hove Albion), David McGoldrick (Sheffield United), James Collins (Luton Town), Sean Maguire (Preston North End), Callum Robinson (Sheffield United), Aidan O’Brien (Millwall), Kieran Sadlier (Doncaster Rovers), Ronan Curtis (Portsmouth), Shane Long (Southampton), Michael Obafemi (Southampton), Troy Parrott (Tottenham Hotspur), Scott Hogan (Stoke City, on loan from Aston Villa).

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Skip73 added 17:26 - Oct 29 Haven't the club learned their lesson from postponing games?just play the game against Oxford. Most of the call ups are fringe players as it is.
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PositivelyPortman added 18:23 - Oct 29 McCarthy trying desperately to wreck our continuity. 🎣
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Bowls1e added 18:51 - Oct 29 Risky article title that 😂
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CokeIsKey added 20:10 - Oct 29 If Flynn gets the call up cancel it. Otherwise we should play as Judge, Dozzell, and Dobra don't usually start. All we're doing is losing our momentum and piling up games for the future when our players may need a rest.
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Saxonblue74 added 20:38 - Oct 29 Squad of 39?! My Mrs has an Irish passport, she must have been close to a call up!
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TimmyH added 22:21 - Oct 29 wow!...if this is postponed what a stop start few months (we're currently not playing this weekend) it has been, no reason to cancel the fixture as they are just fringe players and uninfluential ones at that!
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Bluefish11 added 00:40 - Oct 30 Town have failed to win after an international break for 20 consecutive games, stuff the international break, get it played.
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afcfee added 08:30 - Oct 30 With the amount of rotation we have anyway I can't see why we are postponing games, especially on the back of 2 shocking performances after breaks, it done Sunderland no favours last year when they had 5 or 6 games in hand and failed to make them count.
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ajs83 added 09:48 - Oct 30 Do you know when the Oxford game is likely to be played Phil? Will they fit it in in December or will it be played in the new year? My guess is the latter as Oxford went through in the EFL Cup last night.
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BlueArrow added 15:48 - Oct 30 It's not good for the supporters who want to go but only get weekends free due to work commitments. Yes I do realise there may be some who can't do Saturday's too. However which day do we take the most fans to an away game.
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