The perfect example is the sheer determination and commitment Mick McCarthy brought to the job of being Irish captain in his playing days and subsequently as Irish manager. Although it was never stated publicly, except by people for whom I have no respect, Mick McCarthy had the view that there was a suggestion that he was less Irish than the rest of us. To a first generation Irish man or woman that is the ultimate, gratuitous insult. It was an insult to the cultural environment in which Mick McCarthy and others like him had been reared, where their love of Ireland and Irish culture and identity was so strong that it transcended the environment in which they lived. He achieved the ultimate accolade of captaining and managing his country, but the whispering campaign and innuendo that he was less Irish than us were the ultimate insult. I am not surprised that, with many other factors, it may have hastened his departure. We should harness that sense of identity. We have not fully acknowledged this element in the Irish diaspora.