• The football world awaits the start of UEFA EURO 2012 today.
• Co-hosts Poland play Greece in the first match of the tournament at 18.00CET at Warsaw's National Stadium.
• Russia take on Czech Republic at 20.45CET in the second of today's Group A games in Wroclaw.
• Watch today's pre-match press conferences - for the Netherlands-Denmark and Germany-Portugal games - live on UEFA.com from 16.15CET.
Garry Doyle in Gdynia
Republic of Ireland team reporter
In the Republic of Ireland, old habits die hard. And so a team that has been largely unchanged for the last two years will once again be handed a nation's trust. The big news is that Shay Given – after a fortnight of speculation – has finally been passed fit to play. His calf injury, which has troubled him consistently throughout the final weeks of the Irish training camp stood up to a rigorous training session today. He will start. The rest of the lineup could shape up like this: John O'Shea, Sean St Ledger, Richard Dunne and Stephen Ward in defence; Aiden McGeady, Glenn Whelan, Keith Andrews and Damien Duff in midfield; Kevin Doyle and Robbie Keane in attack. Whelan did pick up a knock in training but Giovanni Trapattoni was unworried: "The players are ready. They are confident and relaxed. We have prepared meticulously. We have done everything we can."
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