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Michael has family in Dublin. His mother was visiting her sister and he was born - simple as.
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Originally posted by The O'Shea The O'Shea wrote:

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Originally posted by The O'Shea The O'Shea wrote:

Originally posted by You Tell Me You Tell Me wrote:

Bit of an awkward first five minutes to that interview with Obafemi having to kind of skirt around the passport tourism side of his back story and Nathan Murphy either not understanding or pretending to not understand why Obafemi's mother just happened to be in Ireland that summer.

Jesus, yeah what a horrendous person to have the audacity to be born in Ireland, could he not have waited until he was back where his family came from?? Dead

What are you actually on about? You genuinely, genuinely need help.

Obviously he didnt decide where he was born but it's quite evident why he was born here.

He was clearly born here in a case of passport tourism, because we granted automatic citizenship to anybody born here up until it was changed by democratic referendum in 2004. People were coming here just to have babies so their babies could get automatic Irish citizenship, which by proxy led to their parents being able to stay.

https://www.rte.ie/news/2004/0422/49352-citizenship/
https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-10110647.html

So the interviewer deciding to focus on his birth is a little awkward given he was only born here because of the abuse of a loophole which was highly contentious and very frowned upon at the time and resulted in one of the most one sided referendums in Irish history, to close said loophole.

His birth was "abuse" of a loophole, was it? F*cking hell, the barely veiled racism often trotted out on here is absolutely shameful.

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Originally posted by TheNumber6 TheNumber6 wrote:

Michael has family in Dublin. His mother was visiting her sister and he was born - simple as.

Sure they were probably "abusing" the hospitality of the great and pure Irish nation too! All these "passport tourists" deciding to overstay their welcome Dead
We're decent enough..
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Originally posted by The O'Shea The O'Shea wrote:

Originally posted by TheNumber6 TheNumber6 wrote:

Michael has family in Dublin. His mother was visiting her sister and he was born - simple as.

Sure they were probably "abusing" the hospitality of the great and pure Irish nation too! All these "passport tourists" deciding to overstay their welcome Dead

If only we had some way of finding out public sentiment about the issue at the time, rather than the typically insane ramblings of a crazy person on here.

Oh wait, we had a referendum on the issue which was astronomically in favour of stopping passport tourism. 79 to 21 percent. 

As was said, Michael didnt decide where he was born and he has done well for us, fair play to him. But this happened regularly, it was enough of an issue for it to go to referendum, and the public could not have been clearer on the issue, so it was stopped. End of story. Now run off and play with traffic like a good lad.


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Originally posted by E2016 E2016 wrote:

Originally posted by The O'Shea The O'Shea wrote:

Originally posted by TheNumber6 TheNumber6 wrote:

Michael has family in Dublin. His mother was visiting her sister and he was born - simple as.

Sure they were probably "abusing" the hospitality of the great and pure Irish nation too! All these "passport tourists" deciding to overstay their welcome Dead

If only we had some way of finding out public sentiment about the issue at the time, rather than the typically insane ramblings of a crazy person on here.

Oh wait, we had a referendum on the issue which was astronomically in favour of stopping passport tourism. 79 to 21 percent. 

As was said, Michael didnt decide where he was born and he has done well for us, fair play to him. But this happened regularly, it was enough of an issue for it to go to referendum, and the public could not have been clearer on the issue, so it was stopped. End of story. Now run off and play with traffic like a good lad.
 

Was just about to mention this. That referendum was racist too apparently. Reasonable minority of idiots in this country now think it’s normal and acceptable to call virtually anyone even mentioning anything related to immigration policy “racist”. 

To get back to football 100% believe Obafemi regarding O’Neill. O’Neill basically embarrassed by the Declan Rice scenario did what fans today still do. 

He used that debacle inspired by a bruised ego no doubt as a stick to beat Obafemi with. Obafemi ended up plastering his social media with pictures of himself in the Irish flag/tricolour in response to make a point if people remember. 


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Keep this topic to football lads, open another thréad in whatever If hé want to debate immigration policy last and present 
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The only international manager in history to caution his players against playing for their country. MO’N. 
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The only international manager in history to caution his players against playing for their country. MO’N. 
 



Just in case anyone thought the above was satire. LOLLOL


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"You're all right Michael, just stay home and take some more time to think about it. I'm not sure we're really what you're looking for to be honest. Besides, we have Seanie Maguire so playing time would be hard enough for you to come by with us."
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