Republic of Ireland boss Martin O'Neill has warned Stoke City midfielder Stephen Ireland to make up his mind over his international future.
The 27-year-old Stoke midfielder has not represented his country since 2007, when he left the squad claiming his two grandmothers had died, when neither had.
Ireland was absent again from O'Neill's 29-man squad for their end-of-season friendlies against Turkey, Italy, Costa Rica and Portugal.
"I had a meeting with a couple of the Stoke City players a few weeks ago, but deliberately didn't want to speak to Stephen in that group," said O'Neill.
"I wanted to have that type of conversation with him on a one-on-one basis, so I called him to get something organised. There was no answer, which was fine because I'm not always immediately responsive myself to phone calls.
"At the same time, we had the FAI trying to make contact also. No answer came. Then his agent called Mary to say that Stephen would like to be considered, but would like a conversation with me some time in July.
"Following on from what Mark Hughes had said in a newspaper interview, I thought it was very obvious then that Stephen didn't want to be involved in these games - and look, if he's not going to be available this summer, then that's fine with me.
"But what I'm saying is that if he wants to get involved with us down the line, then he needs to know that I'm not going to continue chasing."
