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Published 16:15 3 Mar 2016 GMT
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“The uncritical endorsement of the Easter rebellion by the government and others in the Irish Republic, including the FAI, reinforces a republican narrative which has, down through the years, drawn young people into the IRA and other republican terrorist organisations."Ireland play Switzerland on Good Friday and then play Slovakia the Tuesday after Easter Monday, with both games at the Aviva. McCausland feels the action of the rebels in 1916 inspired subsequent violence in Northern Ireland, and he cannot believe the FAI have allowed their crest to be changed to remember the events in Dublin 100 years ago.
"The people of Northern Ireland have suffered and continue to suffer from the violence of those who see themselves as the successors of the 1916 rebels."

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