Joanna Byrne TD

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OTB Football · #StopTheGame | ‘Government need to make a moral stand here!’ | JOANNA BYRNE TD · 9 Jun 2026 podcast

facilities in the Aviva, there's taxi drivers, there's bus drivers, there's a whole range of people that would be implicated with a security risk if that match was to go ahead.

I don't think it would come that far.

I think the city would potentially be shut down.

We've seen mass protests for various other things.

I think we would see something similar like that.

I think the city would be shut down.

I don't think anybody would get near the venue and I don't think the match would proceed.

But

As I say, the crux of the issue here isn't where the match is played.

The crux of the issue is who's participating in the match and who are expected to play.

It does feel as if there are enough opportunities and enough get out of jail free cards going here for this game to happen in Hungary.

Like for the government to wash their hands of this enough and the FAI to defer to the government and the government to defer to the FAI.

How can you be convinced that this game won't actually just happen in Hungary?

I'm not convinced at this moment in time.

As I said to you at the onset of this conversation, I think yesterday's developments and rumblings of this match being moved, in some sense there's a positive that you can take from that.

There's recognition that there's discontent amongst the Irish public.

There's recognition that there's massive discontent amongst the Irish footballing community, as we've spoke about already.

The FAI's own stakeholders and their own members have voted massively in favour of Israel being suspended from international competitions.

They're moving very quickly.

They've got the numbers to bring an extraordinary general meeting in the coming weeks.

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