Michael O'Neill - An Uncle Tom

I find it odd that a nationalist would play for a team that is or was a team for the PUL community.

You only have to look at the amount of Union Jacks at games to see that that it still remains so

Some of the NI team were in one of the bars, a few of the lads were talking to McGinn, another member of the squad called one of our group a “fenian ****”

Not sure what sparked it 

Which one? If you don't know, or don't feel comfortable sharing, that's grand.

Kind of makes Michael O'Neill's recent media comments even more ghastly. Imagine having to stand for GSTQ and being told how to stand for it when you know one of the lads you're linking arms with thinks you're a "Fenian".

Sorry Terri, I'm not having this.

The results from the BelTel showed that GSTQ is here to stay indefinitely, and the comments section showing it's true colours.

Teri there has been some good work done and I think certainly a lot of younger people are far less inclined to be in any way attracted to the more divisive elements but there is no question that GSTQ and the added no surrender- it happens don't deny it- means that for many Nationalists Windsor Park is still a cold house. The anthem is the last remaining vestige and there is no way it will be given up. Truth be told the best way is to accept Nationalists support the ROI predominantly, Unionists will support NI. Let's just respect that and move on.

It depends where you look. Places like Hollywood and other 'well to do' type areas would see a few fans. Nationalist or Catholic areas in Derry and Belfast you would barely find any.

Plenty of people around from mixed backgrounds also, which maybe lessens those people's links to the Ireland team and makes them feel more Northern Irish even if they're catholic - but then those people are perhaps not nationalists as such. 

On the playing side there are probably nationalists making career choices also. Over the years plenty of people in the North on both sides have been willing to compromise their principles somewhat to further their careers both within and outside of sport. Probably that happens with football players also. 

For someone like Conor Bradley he had an offer of senior international caps right away with NI and the increased profile that comes with that whereas it would be the under 21s initially and a wait behind Coleman and Doherty to get picked for Ireland.

Probably, all things being equal, his preference would have been Ireland but, at the end of the day, maybe he just wasn't that bothered about picking an international team and thought sticking with NI was the best thing for his career.