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Vincent Whelan

Katie McCabe and Ruesha Littlejohn celebrate Ireland captain's birthday in style

Katie McCabe and partner Ruesha Littlejohn marked the Ireland skipper turning 27 by heading out for birthday drinks in what looked like a plush bar/restaurant.

32-year-old Ruesha shared one pic of Katie while joking 'She's getting on, will re-evaluate soon.'

The couple have been dating for about six years now and often amuse followers as they're both witty and quick to put the boot in like when Ruesha joked McCabe didn't deserve her latest in what's a long line of Player of the Match awards after one particular Ireland international.

READ MORE: Slovakia 0-1 Ireland: Denise O'Sullivan's touch of class brings World Cup dream one step closer

The post in full (Instagram)

There is of course serious business to attend to next month with our World Cup play-off looming.

Vera Pauw's side will face the winners of Scotland and Austria. Those two will square off in the first round of the convoluted European play-off system.

While The Girls in Green performed well enough in their qualifying group to secure a bye into the second round of the play-offs, they will be away from home for the single leg tie on October 11.

However, while ideally they would have had another substantial crowd at Tallaght Stadium cheering them on, their away form has been better than their record at home.

McCabe, Littlejohn and Co closed out their group with a pair of 1-0 wins against nearest challengers for second place Finland as well as Slovakia five days later.

After that most recent victory, Arsenal star McCabe beamed: “You see what The Lionesses have done in the Euros over the summer, putting the WSL on the map.

“We want to put the Republic of Ireland on the map. We want to be competing against the best teams in Europe and the best teams in the world.”

Prior to the draw for the second round being made, she also added: “Obviously we’ve done ourselves a bit of justice and got that bonus of missing the first round of the play-offs which was our target tonight. We’ll see.

“It’s a massive boost (to get the bye), it’s one less game. It’s massive, we can fully focus on the one game we have whoever we are drawn against. We will just give it our all really.”

“We want to give people tough games, we’re not going to make it easy for people to beat us.

“ I think we’ve shown that by getting four clean sheets in the last four games. That’s a credit to our defence and goalkeeper.”

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