The announcement of the Republic of Ireland 23-man squad caused absolute hysteria on Twitter

Damned if you do, damned if you don't. Martin O'Neill went with a conservative enough selection in the end. With the Euros just around the corner, he wasn't going to start taking flamboyant risks and the injury of Harry Arter and the ongoing struggles of Robbie Keane and James McCarthy saw O'Neill go with what he knows. As you can imagine though, people had opinions on the selection. The players who missed out: David Forde Harry Arter Darron Gibson Eunan O'Kane Callum O'Dowda David McGoldrick The injured Harry Arter got a lot of sympathy from Irish fans. https://twitter.com/mufc_anna/status/737764508958109696 https://twitter.com/IrishRED05/status/737762808037834752 https://twitter.com/KoptimusPrime/status/737760835695706112 Eunan O'Kane was a big one that they were all talking about. https://twitter.com/Scallion26/status/737760357385707520 https://twitter.com/TheConteEra/status/737761339242893312 Decent point. https://twitter.com/andyirishnews/status/737766482411655168 It's not all about the goals. https://twitter.com/Mackers1501/status/737761730126831616 83 caps later and Aiden McGeady is still a burning issue. https://twitter.com/EamoV1/status/737764043625222145 https://twitter.com/patrickjhurley/status/737772525233528834 https://twitter.com/FarrellyBaz20/status/737773390602375168 More daring punters wanted the inclusion of young Callum O'Dowda after 20 blistering minutes. https://twitter.com/OneMustWonderSo/status/737774150761189376 https://twitter.com/alancaw/status/737744874737401859 https://twitter.com/Bian999/status/737768515516674048 https://twitter.com/NaathanByrne/status/737767307750035456 People were just happy that Westwood was included. https://twitter.com/JamesQuinlan_/status/737771999150387201 https://twitter.com/Bootsy1990/status/737771286294859776 Some people were more forceful than others. https://twitter.com/real_sir_puga/status/737765368496852992 The selection of Daryl Murphy split the camp. https://twitter.com/paulthetim/status/737760203412803584 Except it didn't split it. https://twitter.com/DarraghMUFC/status/737765932823662593 The Ipswich fans know what they're talking about. https://twitter.com/Keiryoung501/status/737763673423380480 What about the forgotten striker? https://twitter.com/chrisclayton15/status/737765386247122944 Rubbing it in. https://twitter.com/DailyMesut/status/737759920448282624 Something we can all agree on. https://twitter.com/td_ward/status/737760653981667329 Not everyone was whining. https://twitter.com/steveneary66/status/737766672090685445 https://twitter.com/Dan23_92/status/737775124259168256 Plenty were though https://twitter.com/leedalyire/status/737771809261637633 The most glaring absent of all. https://twitter.com/StamfordEdition/status/737760103739318272