I'll skip commenting on the Blog DI.
I appreciate, on reflection, that my original comments could be interpreted in different ways - but assumptions are no basis for factual assertion or exaggeration.
I've no issues with you writing about my comments, just so long as they're not passed off as some sort of definative authority on IFA thinking - I no longer have any formal dealings with the IFA, and haven't had for approaching 2 years. In a previous life I was the link between the AONISC and the IFA Community Relations Dept. Prior to that, merely as an "interested party", I got involved in helping the Community Relations Department in various aspects of their "Football For All" Campaign....presentations and the like to a wide range of people. Through this work, I would consider Michael Boyd, Head of Community Relations at the IFA, to be someone I have the utmost respect for and whom I am proud to call a friend.
I don't know exactly what others think about the eligibility issue at Windsor Avenue, but I do know that Michael fully understands the impact on his role that trying to deny Northern Ireland born Nationalists/Republicans the choice to play for the Republic Of Ireland has had.
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