All-Ireland team call remains as divisive as ever

As the island of Ireland prepares to field two teams at this year's Euro2016 Championships, Brendan O'Brien, suggests the next six months could say much about how we see ourselves, both north and south.

IF you are old enough to have watched TV in the 1980s — a time when remote controls were far from ubiquitous, and roughly half of all sibling fights emanated from disagreements over who would switch channels — then chances are you will remember an advert that ran for a while on UTV that was cheesier than a Dairylea plant.

It went something like this: