Training - due to start in 15 mins - postponed too. Following mtg with FAI chief executive last night at team hotel, players holding their own meeting now. This will only proceed on their terms.

Sense now that something brewing in Ireland squad. Fifteen minutes before scheduled press conference with Irish and Israeli media sitting in the room, FAI inform us that press conference moved until after training, delayed by more than two hours.

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Ireland's players arrived in Hungary last night after a meeting which revealed unease & concerns about Israel games The game will go ahead, but there are individuals within the group who feel conflicted. A player statement was being worked on last night. independent.ie/sport/soccer/…

We are writing to Wembley Arena about its decision to host Macklemore. Macklemore is not just a musician advocating for human rights. He is a multi-millionaire with a large audience who chooses to defend rabid anti-Israel protesters and has appeared on stage in Germany and said that the only way for society to atone for the Holocaust is by calling for a “free Palestine”. Inflammatory actions like these only stoke the fires of antisemitism globally. This is not an underdog speaking truth to power. This is a celebrity using the current trendy cause – the war between Israel and Hamas – to their advantage, and claiming to speak for the victims of the Holocaust in a truly repulsive way.

Israel’s military has extensively destroyed predominantly Shia villages in southern Lebanon. Nearby Christian villages have been told they will be spared if they remain neutral, but life is still far from normal. Al Jazeera’s Zeina Khodr reports from Marjayoun.

BREAKING: Iran declares it will no longer negotiate over its nuclear program at all. It will now only negotiate the Strait of Hormuz once the US meets "all of Iran's conditions," with the strait remaining closed until then, per a senior official to Reuters. The official says Iran will show no flexibility on its nuclear program even if the US accepts its proposal to reopen the strait, and will make no concessions on enriching uranium or shipping its highly enriched uranium out of the country, one of the main US demands. Iran had previously said it would negotiate on the nuclear program once all its conditions were met. That has now changed.

Collective sense of anger at FAI about Israel games expressed by players during today’s private meeting. The phrase ‘hung out to dry’ has recurred. Meeting due to be held with FAI chief executive ahead of Sunday’s first meeting in Debrecen. More later on @ExaminerSport

NEW INVESTIGATION w/@earshot_ngo: In the early hours of 23 March 2025, in Tel al-Sultan, Gaza, two convoys of ambulances were ambushed by Israeli military personnel. Fifteen aid workers died in a hail of over 800 bullets; by the time dawn broke, Israeli bulldozers were burying the ambulances, seeking to conceal evidence of the attack. The Last Responders tells the story of this attack in painstaking detail, drawing on interviews with witnesses from @PalestineRCS, digital reconstruction, and audio analysis of phonecalls made by the victims as they came under attack. vimeo.com/1182944295

The NYT confirms Haaretz's report that Benjamin Netanyahu was secretly warned before Oct. 7, 2023 by the Emirati president that Hamas planned a major attack, per 2 sources The warning was not shared with Israeli security chiefs, per 5 ex-officials nytimes.com/2026/09/25/world…