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Published 19:43 27 Mar 2016 BST
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The statistic is worrying not because players who weren't born in Ireland are declaring to play for the national team, but that Ireland seems incapable of producing enough young footballers.
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"That is something we are trying to address. It would be nice to think that in the next couple of years that all the players playing here are born and bred in the Republic but, in the meantime, if these are the certain rules and there is players from other nations dipping into the same sort of thing then I suppose maybe you would have to use that."
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