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The comments by the French manager which appeared to ridicule Ireland's style of play, and annoyed Brian Kerr, came during an interview with FIFA's World Cup website last July.
During the interview, Domenech was asked if he had thought of any method in particular for motivating his troops ahead of the crucial match against Ireland and replied: "I've already got the cassette of their second half against Israel. It's worth seeing (laughs).
"The Irish brought on two huge strikers and pumped long balls up towards them from defence.
"We're going to need to be strong to meet such a physical challenge.
"So, I'll show the tape to the players on the first day of training and tell them: 'That's where you're going. Anyone who doesn't fancy it still has time to tell me. You can go back home!'
"Because that's what we're going to be up against. If it looks like we're heading for a result, the Irish will definitely end up playing that way.
"And the crowd will be behind them, urging them forward."
Kerr accused Domenech on Monday of slagging his team off and having at laugh at them and warned his French counterpart that his side could be in for a surprise at Lansdowne Road next Wednesday.
"Everyone knows what it's going to take for us to beat them here," said Kerr. "It's going to take the traditional qualities of Irish teams and not the sort of stuff that your man (Domenech) was talking about when he was having a go at us a few weeks ago in an interview - basically slagging us, having a laugh over the way we played in some of the matches and stuff like that.
"It's not going to be like that - it's going to be us using all the qualities that we have of discipline, desire, passion and good football, many of the things we have done in the past.
"But we're going to have to do it with them having an even better team now," said Kerr.
"Now we've got two homes and an away one to go, we need to continue playing with desire, verve and confidence and I've got a feeling that we're capable of that over the last three games.
"If we can do that, that will be enough - but I'm sure the other teams in the group have their angles and desires as well. They know what they're after, they are good teams and have developed over the group as well."
There are no injury worries for Ireland ahead of the game and Kerr admits he’s not too worried about the lack of game time that strikers Robbie Keane and Clinton Morrison have enjoyed so far this season.
"It is disappointing neither of them have played much, and I don't know what impact that will have when it comes to the game. "But we intend keeping them very busy when they come in with us. We will give them plenty of football, and the training will be sharp, while the adrenaline around this game will be enough to have them at their best."
Kerr's squad will assemble in Dublin on Friday and the manager is delighted at the opportunity to have his players together for such a lengthy period of time.
"The fact that we've no game next Saturday leaves a decent gap between last weekend's matches until we play.
"I'm hoping that having a little bit more time, plus the freshness of the players not having a competitive game will help us going into the Wednesday of the match."