So the Israel hating obsessives who have replaced the Irish government & now govern Ireland are intimidating & bullying pubs into not screening the Israel v Ireland games.

Sad. And this is our alternative government. Also intent on sabotaging Irish football, just to get into the story, pretend relevance & get reported. rte.ie/news/ireland/2026/092…

So much hate, so much derision & the predictable abuse, this time of the Irish manager. The game is going ahead. The intimidation, derision & bullying hasn’t worked. Get over it. Support the team & stop trying to sabotage Irish football & ideologically indoctrinate Irish sportspeople with hate.

Brenda Power is a rare voice of moral clarity amongst the Irish commentariat on this issue. In under a minute she eviscerates Ireland’s hypocrisy. ‘There wasn’t a single peep of protest to the Irish cricket team voluntarily playing Afghanistan last month, where women are treated worse than battery chickens. It is the most extreme humanitarian crisis in the world right now, as far as I can see, the gender apartheid in Afghanistan. Not a word of protest.’ ‘Where was your indignation when we played [Afghanistan]? England wouldn’t play them, South Africa wouldn’t play them, New Zealand wouldn’t play them. The great humanitarians in Ireland had absolutely no difficulty. We’re hypocrites.’

Time for all the obsessive lunacy & intimidation to stop. Let’s hope for a great game tomorrow & get behind our team. #STOPTHEHATEANDBULLYING

The bullies who have spent 5 months trying to stop the game, targeting FAI Board members, then targeting the team & trying to destroy Ireland’s international reputation now lashing out & calling the rest of the world bullies! Bullies always squeal when bullying & intimidation doesn’t work. Now lets support our team & stop the bullying. We have had 5 months of obsessive bullying. Enough!

Just look at the vile comments by the nutty Paddystinians below this thread. Yes the world can sympathise with a horrible conflict but Ireland’s small amount of activists and our media including RTE have become obsessed and irrational. The world is looking at us like we are all mental.

Ah yes, Stop the Game is all about Irish Unity. Missed that insight. But of course this group believe Israelis are Brits responsible for the division of Ireland & the creation of Northern Ireland is a Jewish Zionist plot. If the games are stopped we will instantly have a United Ireland. Now I understand. Entirely logical!

In Iran helping the wounded protesting its barbaric fundamentalist misogynistic government can result in a death sentence but a leading proponent of Stop the Game who has taken on the task of determining the saints & sinners on our international football time never hides his admiration for the Iranian regime nor ever criticises its barbaric executions

Dublin City Councillor, Mannix Flynn calls the allegations of antisemitism surrounding the Herzog Park affair “scurrilous”. That is a remarkably convenient way to avoid confronting what was actually said at the @DubCityCouncil meeting last December 2025. Yet again, an elected official is lecturing the Jewish community on the definition of antisemitism. Criticism of Israel is not antisemitism. The old antisemitic trope of Jewish power and hidden influence, and calling for the destruction of the state of Israel is something else entirely. These examples are explicitly referred to in the IHRA definition of antisemitism to which the Irish Government is a signatory. During the Herzog Park debate, councillors spoke of an “Israeli lobby” supposedly giving “instructions” to senior Irish politicians, a “full court press by the Zionist lobby”, and even suggested that Israeli intelligence was behind communications with Dublin City Council. These are not criticisms of Israeli policy. They are allegations of covert influence and political control, precisely the kind of conspiracy theory that is promoted by antisemites. And the consequences are not abstract: A campaign centred on Israel and Chaim Herzog was brought into the heart of Dublin's Jewish community, causing profound hurt and isolation. The Council's own subsequent report now acknowledges the “deep division” caused by the affair. So before dismissing accusations of antisemitism as “scurrilous”, perhaps Mr Flynn should consider the language used by some of his fellow councillors, how it demonises Jews and its impact on a tiny community living in Ireland. Calling out antisemitic tropes is not scurrilous. Casually dismissing antisemitism by those who do not recognise it, nor feels its effects is scurrilous.

No this is very simple. First of all most of the accounts that are shouting for this match to be cancelled, are like you. Cowards with made up names and no profile pictures. So you’re not standing up for anything. A bit like removing the trans flag from your bio when you head to one of these countries on a flotilla because deep down you know what they’d do to you if they saw your bio. Secondly, let’s look at the fact Ireland have played against Qatar, Afghanistan and competed against multiple African country’s with horrific human rights issues, actual genocide and there was nothing from any of you people. Zero!! But here’s the real issue. In the last 2 years alone, Ireland have played Isreal FOUR TIMES in basketball and absolute crickets from these people claiming to be holier than thou looking to get the match cancelled So for this reason you must ask yourself why? If this is so important, why did nobody have an issue with the basketball matches being played and the answer is very simple. It wasn’t high profile enough for you guys to get the attention you want It’s either all in or all out. You don’t get to pick and choose your high moral grounds. Otherwise that’s just called virtue signalling or like most calling for this, hopping on a band wagon because Rosie O’Donnell is on the front seat If you are doing this because you know it’ll get global attention, then you are standing up for nothing. You’re just looking to get attention. And the people at the top instigating this pile on have a lot to gain from getting such attention and coincidentally enough, they’ve a lot to sell too I admire anyone that genuinely stands up for what they believe in with an all in attitude but I’m not naive enough to fall for people that are doing this for an alternative motive and I’m also not afraid to call it out

There is always a story behind a story. A totally bizarre connection!

How “grim & predictable” that our team is in disarray as a consequence of the campaign of vilification, bullying & intimidation you have orchestrated for 5 months & the specific targeting of individual players on social media . Shocking that agents who represent them & endeavour to advance their careers give them advice, instead of their being indoctrinated by the false hate fuelled narrative you promote. Suppose they haven’t been informed of your support for the Oct 7 slaughter, for the barbaric Iranian regime & your approval of the terrorist attack a few days ago on the son of Israel’s ambassador to the US.

If the Irish team doesn’t win games during this section of the European Nations League those who have relentlessly campaigned to boycott the Israel games for 5 months & have viciously targeted, bullied & intimidated our footballers will be primarily responsible. The government will share that responsibility for not long ago condemning their authoritarian campaign of hate, their determination to act as a surrogate government & dedication to a cancel culture that it has failed to condemn & with which it has at times been complicit. No single group of ideologues & political campaigners shld be allowed to undermine our rights & freedoms, bully sporting & other organisations, such as the FAI, the Irish Wheelchair Association & the NCH, intimidate & threaten commercial businesses into complying with their political views & bending the knee to their dictatorial demands. We must resist becoming a state in which unelected National Socialist fascists, some claiming to be republicans, masquerading as human rights campaigners dictate how we lead our lives. Five months ago I said the agenda was to destroy our international football team & our reputation. They have been permitted to travel that road with barely a whimper from government, with the support of all our opposition parties & disgracefully with the support of most of our msm & journalists. All either joining in the hate or simply anxious to avoid the price of confronting a hate fueled agenda.

We are constantly told about hundreds of new farms and outposts, a “settlement revolution,” and an irreversible transformation of the West Bank. Yet behind the political fanfare and the sweeping takeover of land, the demographic reality remains remarkably stubborn. A full 84.5% of the Jewish population beyond the Green Line, including East Jerusalem, lives within 10 kilometers of it. About 65%—nearly two-thirds—live within just 5 kilometers. The meaning is clear: a large majority of Israelis still live close to the Green Line, in areas that could, in principle, be included in agreed land swaps under a permanent-status agreement—without undermining territorial contiguity or the fabric of life of either population. The overall picture is also far removed from the propaganda: Israelis constitute only about 15% of the West Bank’s population, excluding East Jerusalem, while the Palestinian built-up area is approximately nine times larger than the Jewish built-up area. The outposts and farms deepen control over the territory and intensify friction, violence, and the political obstacles to an agreement—but they do not create an “irreversible demographic reality.” The two-state solution remains possible. Those seeking to thwart it are doing so through deliberate policy, not through demographic inevitability.

And it continues in Iran and in Ireland the barbarism is ignored by the Taoiseach, the government & all our self proclaimed human rights activists

17-year-old Issa Ziad Salah was lauded as an innocent young Gazan football player killed by Israel, known for his intelligence and skill. The memorial "forgot" to mention that he was recruited by Islamic Jihad as a child soldier, one of an estimated~2,000 killed in Gaza.