Published Thursday, 12 November 2009
The 28-year-old Scunthorpe player sat out the latter part of Wednesday morning's session after picking up a minor injury but was able to resume on Thursday.
That would have come as a relief to manager Giovanni Trapattoni, who has already had to call up Bohemians keeper Brian Murphy as a replacement for Coventry's Keiren Westwood to provide cover for number one Shay Given.
Murphy and his team-mates trained in teeming rain at a windswept Gannon Park in Malahide as Italian Trapattoni started to put the finishing touches to his plan to dump France out of the competition.
Television 'black-out'
It comes as Irish football fans are facing a television black-out amid a row over the rights for the second leg of the World Cup showdown.
Broadcasters RTE and Sky Sports remain in discussions with the French Football Federation and their TV partners TF1 over the Paris fixture next Wednesday evening.
But they have as yet been unable to strike a deal, and if that remains the case, Giovanni Trapattoni's men could walk out at the Stade de France with millions at home in the dark as they attempt to secure their passage to South Africa next summer.
Reports in Ireland have suggested that the FFF is asking for 1.5m euros for the rights after the Football Association of Ireland handed the home leg to the highest bidder, independent channel M6, for around 4.5m euros.