Dan McDonnell

There's no way that if they came to a situation that they were here that the FAI would ever be putting images of Gaza up on the big screen.

They wouldn't do that.

But I think internally, certainly, I know people who know that this hasn't gone away.

And I'm sure the commitment remains to play the matches.

I think also as well, possibly, there's an element of knowing...

People have been gaslit a little bit into believing all these protests and sanctions that the FA will be hit for not playing the game.

I think as it gets closer, people will realise that really the sanction here would just be losing out on six points in the Nations League.

I think that that's just going to become the prevailing conversation as it gets closer.

At the beginning of a campaign where you're probably going to qualify for the tournament, no matter what happens.

It is, but again, like how hard are, you have to just sometimes go, how hard are UEFA going to come down on Ireland?

When you think that UEFA have put out a couple of sort of obtuse enough posts on social media at times, you know, wasn't there a gesture before one of the...

Super Cup games yeah stop killing children yeah again it's very much like it's sort of you know it's sort of like a like a cryptic Instagram post you'd send to sort of someone you don't like or something you know but is that is the feeling are they really gonna are they really going to but yeah it's true that the FEI are so

I mean, just factually, and I'm reliant on UA for funding, that they aren't in the position to have the confidence, probably, to do what a lot of them privately know what they should do.

I think that if it came to the situation where the game happened with fans in the stadium, which I've never believed will happen, and I still believe won't happen, but I could be completely wrong, and I'm maybe looking more wrong as time passes.

I still can't believe that Ireland will host Israel in an international with anthems and flags and fans in the stadium.

Okay.

I just can't.

But maybe, you know, it's my opinion veering into that observation.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.