Callum O’Dowda is the one big surprise in Martin O’Neill’s squad for the Euro 2016 warm-up against the Dutch

We're getting closer now.

A few weeks before each and every Ireland match Martin O'Neill sits down in front of the Irish media to tell them that pretty much every single Irish person who has ever even kicked a football and who can run 100 metres without coughing up a lung is in the preliminary squad for the upcoming fixture. If it's an exercise in avoiding controversy then it works a treat as O'Neill rarely has to face any questions from the media about who he has left out of the squad. Almost everyone is in it. Or at least they are until it's whittled down closer to the fixtures in question. https://twitter.com/SportsJOEdotie/status/660461738580647937 It was more or less the same again on Thursday as O'Neill announced a 35-man squad for the first of Ireland's final two warm-up matches before Euro 2016 against Holland at the Aviva on Friday May 27. But there was one big surprise as Oxford United's Callum O'Dowda gets his first call-up. The 21-year-old left winger scored for the Under-21s against Slovenia in March and has obviously impressed O'Neill and Roy Keane enough with his performances for the League Two side to warrant a closer look when the squad get together next week. Though it's unlikely that O'Dowda will feature against the Dutch and O'Neill plans to trim down the squad next week. Jack Byrne was called up to train with the senior squad before the friendly against Switzerland in March but returned to the Under-21s after a few days under the watchful eye of O'Neill and Co. Something similar could well happen with O'Dowda. Marc Wilson has been included despite being a major fitness doubt, while there are also places for David McGoldrick and Kevin Doyle, who have both had recent injuries. The squad in full is: GOALKEEPERS Shay Given Darren Randolph David Forde Keiren Westwood DEFENDERS Seamus Coleman Cyrus Christie Paul McShane Ciaran Clark Richard Keogh John O'Shea Alex Pearce Shane Duffy Marc Wilson Stephen Ward MIDFIELDERS Aiden McGeady James McClean Glenn Whelan James McCarthy Jeff Hendrick David Meyler Stephen Quinn Darron Gibson Harry Arter Wes Hoolahan Eunan O'Kane Anthony Pilkington Robbie Brady Jon  Walters Jonathan Hayes Callum O'Dowda FORWARDS Robbie Keane Shane Long David McGoldrick Kevin Doyle Daryl Murphy https://twitter.com/FAIreland/status/730706313051836416