REPUBLIC star James mcClean has been taunted by a former british soldier about the shooting dead of 14 people on bloody Sunday in his home city. McClean, pictured above, who plays with Wigan in the Premiership, was yesterday training with the republic of Ireland squad in Dublin under the new management of martin O'Neill and Roy Keane.
The Creggan born footballer was accused of refusing to wear a poppy on remembrance sunday but his manger later said mcClean did not play because he was injured. Several remarks were posted on a Twitter account belonging to former Irish Guard Alan McCroary in the hours after the controversy.
From Ballymena, Co Antrim, he says he served in Crossmaglen in south Armagh, Iraq and Afghanistan.
In an apparent reference to the 1972 bloody sunday massacre when 14 civilians were shot dead by the british army's Parachute regiment, mcCroary's Twitter account claimed it was "all in a day's work."
The post read: "We love sundays. No apologies. No surrender. All in a day's work. Derry skiprat."
It was accompanied by a picture of members of the Parachute regiment posing in front of a mural.
