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14th December 2018
08:39pm GMT

"When I played at Chelsea, I was called an “Irish c***”," Dunne wrote in his column. "So I can understand why there is so much talk about the Raheem Sterling incident last week and the difference between being called a “black c***” and a “Manc c***”. "There is a difference between abusing someone over the colour of their skin and their nationality but it’s still abuse, it happens in football. And it has to stop. "People didn’t take it seriously when I was called an Irish c*** but whoever said that had a problem with the country I came from, and that is racism. Irish players still get it a lot, James McClean gets it a lot of the time and football can’t ignore that it’s there. "But it’s not just in football, it’s everywhere, on the street, down the pub, someone adds an adjective to talk about you because your skin colour is different or you are from another country."McClean hit out at the "uneducated cavemen" who heckled him during Stoke City's goalless draw with Middlesbrough earlier this season and said that the FA are turning a blind eye to Irish abuse after he was routinely booed again recently following his latest refusal to wear the remembrance day poppy. McClean said in a statement:
"The FA are investigating me after Saturday's game, for what exactly? "Yet week in week out for the past seven years I get constant sectarian abuse, death threats, objects being thrown, chanting which is heard loud and clear every week which my family, wife and kids have to listen to. "They turn a blind eye and not a single word or condemnation of any sort. "Huddersfield away last year while playing for West Brom where there was an incident with their fans which was on the game highlights, where the cameras clearly caught it, yet the FA when [a] complaint was made to them said there 'was not enough evidence'. "If it was a person's skin colour or if it was anti-Muslim, someone's gender, there would be an uproar and it would be taken in a completely different way and dealt with in a different manner. "But like in Neil Lennon's case in Scotland, because we are Irish Catholics, they turn a blind eye and nothing is ever said and done."
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