James McClean

That would mean no Premier League or Championship games until October because of the international window, two Premier League and three Championship game days lost. Would be very hard to claw that back with the World Cup taking up a good few weeks as well.

I'm no McClean fan by any means but the fuss people are going to this evening looking to be offended by him is ridiculous. Stood there, head bowed and wearing a black armband and people are calling him out for not linking arms.

Doesn't help on the other hand that the flag waving chest thumping republicans are looking at the same picture and trying to make out he's some kind of hero and that he's being deliberately disrespectful. 

Conducted himself impeccably from what I can see and still can't win 

Yeah fans singing his name after the final whistle. Great to see 

Correct, listening to RTE the last few days, you would think we should all be royalists. No dissenting voices allowed! While she may very well have been a nice woman, she was the figurehead of an institution, which was part of a war machine that behaved abominably not just in Ireland, but around the world. Her efforts in latter years to build bridges was welcome, but no Irish person should be made feel under any obligation to doff the cap.

Probably paying his own remembrance to the memories of the children who were slaughtered in his home city and had nailbombs planted on their dead corpses to make it look like they were part of the IRA. Well, that's what I imagine.

That was what I had in mind but didn't feel the need to draw it out or articulate an assumption on James' behalf like you did.