All of Ireland was delighted with the World Cup draw and then we started beating ourselves up

"Austria, Wales and Serbia will be happy enough to be in the group. I'm happy enough to be in the group, too."

That was Martin O'Neill's assessment of the Republic of Ireland's World Cup qualifying group for 2018. The Irish were given a bit of a reprieve, luck O'Neill would argue was due after their European group that the Republic were supposed to be second seeds for. The boys in green came into this draw as fourth seeds though and with all sorts of nightmare scenarios that could've played out. See Northern Ireland's group for example: https://twitter.com/BBCSport/status/624988399548678144 So Ireland fans were delighted with their lot and took to the world of Twitter to celebrate a 'grand' draw that we're all 'happy enough' with. We'll take it all day long and that. In saying that though, the Welsh and Serbs and Austrians were even happier than us. Thumbs up all round https://twitter.com/todayfm/status/624990197474852864 https://twitter.com/BoyleSports/status/624989435579469824 The commentators have already started their work https://twitter.com/Fredorrarci/status/624989571768578048 Football fwends https://twitter.com/danieljaws93/status/624989521625632768 Don't... just, don't https://twitter.com/StretfordEnders/status/624995047390507008 Riding our luck again https://twitter.com/AORiordan3/status/624994931422142464 Everybody! https://twitter.com/scottreid1980/status/624989514604380160 Not bad is the best we can hope for really https://twitter.com/DanielLane101/status/624989513761337344 Star-studded approval (not for Sepp though) https://twitter.com/starryboy14/status/624989076131852289 https://twitter.com/dickclerkin8/status/625002504758132736 Boom city https://twitter.com/Kev_the_red/status/624987831618961409 https://twitter.com/FergOShea/status/624986942292279296 Who cares about the Euros? https://twitter.com/steviemcnally/status/624988973157498880 https://twitter.com/deckymch/status/624989256566620160 https://twitter.com/Darransull86/status/624988585373106176 https://twitter.com/LabourEoin/status/624989661937692673 https://twitter.com/brogie95/status/624997573397508097 https://twitter.com/BrickMolloy/status/624988099618148352 We're not getting ahead of ourselves though https://twitter.com/Ciaran_O/status/624987483089018880 Sobering perspective https://twitter.com/JungleLion_/status/624989584854790145 Ah, lads https://twitter.com/KCsixtyseven/status/624987834060042240 The premortems are starting already https://twitter.com/almdemo/status/624989520497348608 https://twitter.com/JoeCallaghan84/status/624989002060296192 Stuff it, we're rubbish https://twitter.com/GoonerNo1/status/624989195413663744