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

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.

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.

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

Every ex-player I meet says the exact same thing to me 'I wish I had given it longer'. Too many players get flights home when they have the opportunity because they' re missing their mates and home, then they go back into that environment and get comfortable.

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

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.