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The best message I received after the game was from one of Irish football's many outstanding volunteers in youth coaching and player development, who pointed to our coverage of funding disparities and Academy investment:

'I hope you know what you're fighting for: more of this.'

And on Tuesday's episode of The42 FM, there was only one thing myself and Sinéad O'Carroll were ever going to talk about

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Along with a snap podcast at FT, David Sneyd, Shane Keegan and I recorded our Football Family podcast on Monday, which we made free-to-air as a once-off, so everyone could listen to David's emotional, brilliant insight into the kind of man Coleman is [From 35.30 here]

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And I also wrote this piece looking back on Ireland's frankly insane World Cup qualifying group, and of how Hallgrimsson/Coleman turned it all around

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In my foolish lack of belief, I booked the first flight out of Budapest on Sunday night, so I got home and wrote this piece, trying to explain why the national football team's successes means more to us than anything else

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