United’s veteran stars delight loyal Irish fans with special appearance – report

Manchester United’s players arrived in Ireland on Monday. Training camp Yesterday was the first full day of training camp for the senior team. United are using facilities at the Carton House hotel in County Kildare as they prepare for the final stretch of the season. It is a four-day training camp following the international break to fill the time during an extended break in their schedule, which has seen no game since Friday 20th March. They will not play again until next Monday, 13th April, when they face Leeds United at Old Trafford. Camp diary The Daily Mail has reported on what the team were up to on their first full day near the Irish capital. Summer signing Benjamin Sesko was involved in a photo shoot at Croke Park in Dublin to advertise United’s upcoming pre-season encounter against Leeds United, which is scheduled for 12th August. Armagh drama GAA side Armagh were booked into the hotel to use the facilities last weekend and arrived on Friday. They found “the pitches marked out for United’s kind of football instead. The hotel management, who are understood to have informed the club in advance, wouldn’t re-line it and rejected Armagh’s request to do it themselves.” The paper reports that, “sources have told Confidential that the first United knew about the issue was when the story broke in the Irish media last week.” Interaction with fans Irish fans received a treat as Portuguese star Bruno Fernandes and veteran Harry Maguire stayed an hour after training to sign autographs and interact with fans. It was announced yesterday that Maguire had signed a new one-year deal at Old Trafford, and “it only underlines what many staff have been saying behind the scenes about the importance of keeping experienced role models and leaders in the dressing room, which was a key motivator behind the renewal of Maguire’s contract.” Featured image Alex Livesey via Getty Images The Peoples Person has been one of the world’s leading Man United news sites for over a decade. Follow us on Bluesky: @peoplesperson.bsky.social Alex Browne Alex is a huge Manchester United fan, inspired by greats of his homeland such as George Best, Harry Gregg and Norman Whiteside. Alex has a Master’s degree from Queen’s University Belfast and La Universitat Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona, Spain. Having lived in the country since 2011, Alex is The Peoples Person’s Spanish football expert and is fluent in both Spanish and Catalan. He dreams of witnessing a United captain triumphantly hoisting the Premier League and Champions League trophy in the air once more.