Mick Foley and John Greene joined Joe for the Sunday Paper Review on Off the Ball to look back at the big stories from the past week.
Declan Rice's decision to take more time to decide his international future has opened a debate across the football community in Ireland.
Former and current internationals have waded into the discussion all week after Republic of Ireland manger Martin O'Neill left Rice out of his latest squad after he learned the West Ham youngster wanted more time to consider his international future.
"And this goes back to our core point as well," Foley told Joe, "He may have grown up in a house of 'Irishness' at home but now he's living and working in a professional environment as well where you maximise your income whatever way you can - and you maximise your income clearly by playing for England instead of Ireland."
"We're lucky in Ireland in a way because we kind of have a sporting identity with the GAA where we have this parish and county thing and we've a very strong understanding of what identity means," Greene added.
"We sometimes take that and impose it on other cultures where identity isn't perceived quite the same - it's perceived differently. The idea that you have one club for life or that you have one county for life."
The debate about getting our diaspora to commit to playing for Ireland is probably going to rage on for quite some time yet while Foley believes the solution lies closer to home.
"On a practical level and it's echoed in all the pieces about Rice is that the FAI need to look at their youth structures in terms of how and where and in what way we go about this."
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