REPUBLIC of Ireland U19 Head Coach Paul Doolin has named his squad for a friendly international against the Netherlands at Tallaght Stadium on September 8.

The Irish squad will commence their preparations for the forthcoming UEFA U19 Championships qualifying campaign. The Irish will also play two friendly games at this level away to Sweden in October before host their opening UEFA qualifying group in November when they meet Malta, Gibraltar and Switzerland.

"At underage level you appear to change personnel almost every ten months and we're starting with the 1996-born group of players," said Doolin.

"I'm looking forward to playing against Holland. Aron Winter is their coach now and I'm expecting that it'll be good test.

"It's not a bad age-group for us, they had a couple of good campaigns and were unlucky not to qualify at U17 level. We also had a few of these lads in an U18 game in Czech Republic with a lot of home-based players.

"We've about 50 players we could pick from here, the UK and abroad. You're looking at players in these games. It's hard to get a flow from these games but you are hoping to get your point across.

"There's only 18 players we can use and with only one game there was no point in bringing in too many. We've seen a few of the lads are eligible at this age group last year. I'm looking forward to working with the likes of Ryan Manning, Shaun Donnellan, Eoghan Stokes and the others who played in Czech Republic.

"Jack Byrne has played with the U21s so he may come back down and be in involved in our qualifiers in November but we'll decide closer to that time."

REPUBLIC OF IRELAND U19 SQUAD:

Liam Bossin (Anderlecht)

Peter Burke (Sunderland)

Sean Burke (Leicester City)

Noe Baba (Fulham)

Fiacre Kelleher (Celtic)

Kevin Toner (Aston Villa)

Dylan Barnett (Brighton & Hove Albion)

Shaun Donnellan (West Bromwich Albion)

Bobby Moseley (Birmingham City)

Connor Dimaio (Sheffield United)

Chris Flanagan (Derry City)

Harry Charsley (Everton)

Josh Cullen (West Ham United)

Ross Mann (Limerick FC)

Joel Coustrain (Sheffield United)

Ryan Manning (Galway FC)

Eoghan Stokes (Leeds United)

Reece Grego-Cox (QPR)

FIXTURE

U19 International Friendly

Monday, September 8

Republic of Ireland v Netherlands, Tallaght Stadium (7.30pm)