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Twitter is painted green, white and gold as Robbie Brady nods Ireland into the last 16

Published 21:52 22 Jun 2016 BST

Darragh Murphy
Twitter is painted green, white and gold as Robbie Brady nods Ireland into the last 16

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They left it late.

Very fucking late. It wasn't quite the final role of the dice but the penultimate one when Wes Hoolahan took to the pitch in Martin O'Neill's second substitution of the evening. Robbie Keane was about to become that one last, exhausted attempt to get a goal. Just one goal. But it was a different Robbie who stepped up, pulsing with the energy and desire to save the blushes of Hoolahan who, just seconds earlier, had squandered Ireland's best chance of the game. The ball came to Hoolahan's feet once more, he sent the most teasing ball of the ninety minutes into the box and Robbie Brady, of all bloody people, got his head to it. It was unbelievable. https://twitter.com/nbrez/status/745718617635983360 https://twitter.com/John_Kavanagh/status/745718640595570688 https://twitter.com/Bernard_Dunne/status/745718950869241856 https://twitter.com/Meehan_MJ/status/745719126505684992 https://twitter.com/ShaneLowryGolf/status/745719554572169216 https://twitter.com/Tellytobin/status/745719186895310848 https://twitter.com/AnfieldRd96/status/745719072436936704 https://twitter.com/MiguelDelaney/status/745719035346698240 https://twitter.com/JamieConlan11/status/745718965868040192 https://twitter.com/Jordimurphy/status/745718812000006145 https://twitter.com/TinchyStryder/status/745719797741142016 https://twitter.com/GaryLineker/status/745719612755542022 https://twitter.com/amyhuberman/status/745719532447211520 https://twitter.com/norman_parke/status/745718834384896000 https://twitter.com/jimmybullard/status/745718536295841792  

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Twitter is painted green, white and gold as Robbie Brady nods Ireland into the last 16