I have a passing interest only in Soccer,Hurling,Gaelic Football and Camogie being my passion.I would love the Irish teams to do well nevertheless.
But what is it about playing for the Republic that makes the soccer players so ashamed of our National Anthem that they refuse to sing it.I watched their faces the first night as the cameras panned them during Amhran na Fiann.Only 1 player made any attempt to sing it.
Is it that they can't be arsed learning it or that they just don't give a fiddlers.
Other team's players burst themselves with pride when their Anthems come up but our boys stay sthum.
Or maybe they have learned from the Heather school of Patriotism that the done thing is to celebrate the actions of your opponents and downplay your own achievements.
Seemingly so.
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