Duncan Smith
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185 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 24 Aug
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Football fans, football players, former Irish football managers, Brian Kerr.
Israel should not be allowed to take part or should not be taking part in UEFA or FIFA tournaments.
They are in a difficult position and they've been put in a difficult position, but their members requested and had a motion passed that they bring a motion to UEFA, as Tony O'Donoghue outlined there, to ban Israel.
They've not done that and they need to listen to their members.
So we need to take as many stands and pull, as I've said over the course of the last number of years, but in the course of this debate, any levers we can pull to put pressure on Israel.
This organisation did it with the Eurovision.
Yes, the Eurovision went ahead.
Yes, Israel took part, but it was the right thing to do.
This will have consequences.
Ireland could lose six points and could be fined.
But versus 70,000 Gazans killed, including 18,000 children, continued illegal occupations and expansion of settlements in the West Bank, the invasion of Lebanon and the ethnic cleansing that's happening there
I mean, it's a small price to pay.
And what we've seen with the Occupy Territories Bill insofar as it's being moved forward is Ireland started that.
Francis Black started that.
We pushed it.
Other states have followed.
And we're building a small but a broader consensus across Europe.
And we can do the same in football.
Because, Matt, we want to put as much pressure as possible upon Israel to show that their actions in Gaza, in the West Bank, in Lebanon and beyond are intolerable to the international community.
We have very limited levers to pull to demonstrate to Israel that their behaviour is utterly unacceptable and that putting it in the most polite terms is absolutely reprehensible.
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