Dan McDonald

Other people who are not going to stand with you on this when it comes to it.

And they are now in this situation, like I was, one of these things overnight that I was reporting on, the Stop the Game campaign, are now sort of beginning legal proceedings against the government ministers and the FEO and the Sports Ireland saying that this game is unlawful and

It's got to a point where, now look, I'm not saying that if the FAI had said on the 1st of March or the day after the draw took place that they weren't going to play the game in Dublin.

I'm not saying that the Stop the Game campaign wouldn't have existed.

I still think the pressure to boycott would have been there and should be there.

But I think if they'd assertively said early doors, well, this game obviously can't happen in Dublin.

We acknowledge that, like Belgium did when they moved it to another jurisdiction.

I think it probably would have, it may have avoided some of what they're coming into now.

I think that campaign would have existed, but people would have seen maybe that powerful Richie Sadlier clip on RTE after the, you may not have seen it if you're away, but it was after the Qatar game, which went, I think, around the world.

He was speaking about the optics of bringing Israel to this stadium, that the flag would be hanging here, that the anthem would be played here.

Now, the FBI allowed people to believe that this would happen.

And as a result, it's turned this into an even bigger issue than it already is, while acknowledging there's a degree of bad luck, of course, in drawing them.

But there's been a collective sort of indecision around it, which is just making it worse.

And as a result now, there's no good way out of this.

Yeah, and I just want to go back to that poll, because I think that was interesting.

Basically, one in five people then, like the 20% wanted to go ahead and Dublin were supporting the FBI's original stance on it.

And I just want to make the point, like as well, that how they've wrapped themselves in knots with this, like when they were defending that decision, David Carell was saying, well, you know, it's important that people get a chance to, you know, to find their voice, like to protest.

Obviously, now people are saying, well, now that you're moving it, if you're going to move it away, which still hasn't been formally signed off, I don't believe.

Now they're not getting the chance to do that.

So again, but your words, it's their words that come back.