Michael O'Neill - An Uncle Tom

It's ghastly when you think about it. Duffy's father is from the Republic. He's entitled to play for us the same way someone like Adam Idah would be entitled to play for Nigeria. Can you imagine the uproar if a high profile Irish football figure was using his platform to bleat that Idah shouldn't be allowed to play for them?

It's absurd for Michael to suggest that someone who grows up identifying as Irish and supporting Ireland shouldn't be allowed to play for us to begin with, but the argument really falls apart when he brings up lads like Duffy.

As an aside, Michael O'Neill looks like someone who smells terrible. I can practically smell the stale fecal and whiskey odour emanating from his pores just by watching him on TV.

Some of the comments on this thread too  Duffy is Irish, he doesn't 'identify' as Irish or because a member of his family was born in another county. It's not one of these new pronoun ffs.

I think you're reading far too much into it first of all, and missing my point about Duffy's situation as well.

Don't even need the GFA, they are entitled to Irish citizenship regardless.

The 1956 citizens of Ireland act.

Michael O'Neill clearly doesn't agree with the provisions of the GFA and doesn't think players like Marc Wilson, for example, should be allowed to play for us.

Shane Duffy's father is from the Republic, so even without the GFA, he would remain eligible for us, the same way Idah or Omobamidele, for example, would be eligible for Nigeria.

So Michael O'Neill undermines his own argument when he brings up Duffy.

Do you follow? 

I also know of Paddy McNair's family, though not him personally, and I can vouch that his family are Rangers supporters and would identify as British and nothing else.

Saying they're Irish and that's it is as patronising as someone from Australia or America saying I'm British.

Shane Duffy is eligible for us simply by being born on the island of Ireland, no GFA or ancestry rules needed.