Seems like the BBC sports department were having a rather empty day and needed a page filler. Not sure why Dermot Ahern had nothing better to do in Foreign Affairs in Dublin.

Needless to say they just don't get it. Having recognised Northern Ireland's right to exist in the Belfast Agreement, the Republic's government now want us to abolish our national football team in favour of some contrived, feel-good, all-Ireland, bullshit team despite the fact that neither Northern Ireland fans nor the Republic's football fans want it. Of course this call has nothing to do with the fact that Northern Ireland, in the midst of a good run of form, recently passed their less in-form neighbours in the FIFA rankings.

Keep your nose out of things that don't cont concern you Ahern. Maybe you should stick to sorting out your own side and stay the hell away from ours. We will not stand for the abolition of our national team just to please some bullshit, political, feel-good agenda.