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Published 14:27 29 Apr 2017 BST
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"Back in Derry I was just being me. Nobody cared. All of a sudden things I say are in the papers. "I’m still the same person I am. I wouldn’t want to change. If you like it, you like it, and if you don’t, you don’t. "It’s in the papers that I’m pro-IRA and the way it goes, if you see something in the paper you believe it whether it’s true or not. I’ve been very lucky with my managers, they’ve believed my side of the story. "I’ve had death threats and I’ve had a lot of people see me as anti-British. "I want to go on record here and say I’ve never been anti-British. There’s certain things that I don’t agree with, my beliefs, but I take people at face value."It is truly unfortunate that it had to come to this. That McClean has felt the need to answer questions about whether or not he is fervently against a whole nation based on the beliefs he holds so dear. You'd hope that his emphatic statement would be the end of matters but we don't think it will be. No doubt about it, that is the saddest truth of all.
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