Wonder who got in his absence so? McClean, Fahey or Gibson?
:lol: gas man
James McClean, one of our own, fuck the begrudgers 
Once McCarthy was unavailable then the squad pretty much picked itself. Standby players are very much from the second tier and none of them would have gotten any game time anyway. Coleman and Green may have had outside chances of making the squad but neither has been involved enough in the last 12 months at either club or international level to have any complaints.
Foley probably stands out as the most fortunate inclusion but even then it’s as the seventh defender, when the norm would be eight, so he’s not taking anyone’s place other than fending off the challenge of McShane and Clark who were never realistically going to make it, nor could they have expected to.
I wonder what the RTÉ panel will find complaint with - presumably it will be the exclusion of Coleman.
That will probably be it alright. They’ll find it hard to argue that being included in the squad is somehow humiliating to McClean.
Marco Tardelli reckons McClean can be Ireland’s Paolo Rossi.
What did McClean say? I saw some of his comments, he has deleted his account it seems.
He was out the end of a few death threats after proclaiming his joy at being called up and subsequently goading O6 fans about their lack of involvement this summer.
Sunderland winger James McClean threatened after receiving Republic of Ireland call-up for Euro 2012
James McClean’s decision to play for the Republic of Ireland has led to threats that the Sunderland winger will be shot if he returns to his native Northern Ireland.
The threats were made on Twitter and have since been deleted, although McClean has closed his account in response. Although the matter has not yet been reported to the police, The Daily Telegraphunderstands McClean has been told to curb his use of the social networking site by Sunderland and his advisors as they look to protect him.
McClean had already played seven times for the Northern IrelandUnder-21 side when he decided to switch his allegiance south of the border, something he is entitled to do under the terms of the Good Friday agreement.
The 23 year-old, who turned down a call-up from Northern Ireland manager Michael O’Neill, made his debut for the Republic of Ireland in February against the Czech Republic and expressed his happiness on Monday that he had been named in their European Championships 2012 squad.
That led to a wave of comments on Twitter, not helped by McClean’s decision to react with a series of jokey, yet inflammatory statements, as he tried to make light of the controversy.
In one of the more severe responses the midfielder, who was born and raised in Derry, was told he “deserved to be shot” for turning his back on Northern Ireland. Another promised to “make sure you get shot” if he returned to his home city.
Sunderland chief executive Margaret Byrne said: “Any incidents of this nature are treated with the utmost seriousness and the club is looking into this matter carefully.”
Nevertheless, manager Martin O’Neill was less than impressed with the conduct of a player he has championed since he replaced Steve Bruce in December, particularly as he should have known he would be a target given the strong feelings surrounding the issue.
McClean appears to have taken the advice on board and has removed himself from Twitter and intends to keep a lower profile in the build-up to the European Championship next month.
“I’m over the moon to be in the squad,” he said. “In fact, it’s a dream come true to be in the Ireland squad for a major championship. I got a phone call from Mr Trapattoni and although it was a nice wake-up call, I had a butterflies-in-my-stomach feeling until he told me that I was in the squad.
McClean said: “I would be lying if I said that the last year, in fact the last few months, have not been a bit unreal, because it was only in December when I got my chance in the Sunderland side. Since then I have represented Ireland and now I’m in the Euro 2012 squad.”
That’s a very weak looking standby list with the exception of Coleman. Pure shit in fact.
So there is no truth in the Duff out rumours???
FAI twitter page says they’re packing the games for the team hotel in Poland:
I hope they don’t bring Monopoly. It could end up with fellas up all night fighting and arguing…
Delighted to see they’ll be taking a trip to Tungsten Town
James McClean:
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Lads, anyone know what time the Bosnia game is kicking off at on the 26th? Struggling to find a kick-off time online myself.
3.00 kickoff.
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Thanks jimmy pal.
The wonderful thing about that quote is that there’s been lads on various message boards arguing about it for months for hundreds and hundreds of pages, especially the imbeciles over on Our Wee Country, and now McClean, who would know best, has just come out and said The Truth. Case fucking closed. Catholics should play for the Republic and any orange bastard from up the north can shove it up their hole.
Well said! filthy shower of cunts the lot of em!