Seamus Coleman has admitted the Republic of Ireland must learn from their mistakes if they are to keep alive their hopes of making it to the Euro 2016 finals.

Coleman and his team-mates had to make do with a point from their Group D showdown with Scotland as they were caught with a sucker punch one minute after the restart which handed the visitors a 1-1 draw they barely deserved.

To manager Martin O'Neill's horror, Shaun Maloney, who scored the only goal in the reverse fixture in Glasgow in November, was allowed to play a one-two on the edge of the penalty area and fire home an equaliser off luckless defender John O'Shea.

Asked what O'Neill's reaction had been in the dressing room afterwards, Everton full-back Coleman said: "Like everyone else, he's disappointed, as you can imagine, any manager's reaction straight after that.

"We were going to keep it tight and then we concede 45 seconds in, so we got a bit of a slap on the wrist for that, and rightly so.

"As professional players, that shouldn't be happening 45 seconds into the second half.

"We have to take that on the chin. You can do all the stuff on the training ground you want, but you can't really let that happen so early in the second half."

Ireland head into September's double-header against Gibraltar and Georgia knowing their qualification hopes have been dealt a significant blow, but one which, in Coleman's eyes at least, is not yet fatal.

He said: "We're still two points behind Scotland and they have a couple of tough games coming up, we have tough games coming up - we just have to look at the next game.

"We'll look forward to September and try to win them.

"I know they are cliched answers you are getting from me, but we can't give up on this group and I think we are still in it.

"Obviously three points would have been a lot better than one.

"A lot of people said it was must-win, but we won't give up hope just yet."