There are too many coming from different countries. When we started, foreign players were in the minority. All the best players from Spain, France, Brazil, Argentina are going to England. And Ireland is bound to suffer.

If I finish tomorrow and look back on the past years, I' d say, 'that wasn't bad'.

Every club if I am not playing, I leave because I want to play football. All I wanted to do since I was a kid is play football and if I wasn't at a club I'd be playing with my mates on a Sunday. I still come home and play five-a-side with my mates.

England was never my home. I had a home there but Dublin is my home so leaving Ireland was the hardest thing I had to do.

I get paid to play football, not to sit on the bench, I don't enjoy that. Over the years loads of players have been very happy to do that and pick up their money. That used to really wind me up.

In many ways Roy Keane is bigger than One Direction.

If I was English would I be respected a bit more? Yes, I think so, that's the truth.