The history of the split that will see two Irish teams at #Euro2016

The fact that two teams from Ireland will compete at Euro 2016 in France this month is a legacy of the divided politics of Ireland, writes Paul Rouse

But it is also the result of a frenetic battle for control of soccer in Ireland between the Football Association of Ireland (FAI) based in Dublin, and the Irish Football Association (IFA) based in Belfast.

This is a tangled history that reaches back even to the very origins of the playing of soccer in Ireland.