Joe Molloy

So Joanna Byrne is very upset by this whole thing.

She describes what's happened here as a cold underhand move by Travella initiated in the dark of night.

It was planned and coordinated without any consultation with me and this is symptomatic of the way they do business.

Now, Trevella, again, they had cited her comments about UEFA as being kind of untenable and they said it was nothing to do with her call for the boycott and they said previously there was a breakdown in trust and confidence, nothing to do with political views or beliefs.

But Joanna Byrne's not having that really.

She says that, you know, any notion of a conflict of interest only became an issue recently as in a conflict between her being

a politician and a co-chairperson so she says there's a narrative in peddled in recent weeks of a conflict of interest between my role as co-chair and my role as a spokesperson on sport that is something I categorically dispute so she look she's she's kind of reading between the lines she's saying this is all to do with what I said about the Israel fixture Traveller playing this you know fairly straight bat there was no mention in this statement of UEFA or anything like that but we've just got rid of her and that's that um

I think there'll be a fair amount of disquiet over this.

Like, I wouldn't think Drada fans will love it.

You know, American sensibilities around what's happened in Gaza are quite often different to Irish ones.

And Byrne is gone.

Yeah.

I think it leaves a very bad taste.

I mean...

I think she should be allowed, given what's happened in Gaza.

I think she should be allowed to say Ireland should boycott the game.

UEFA and FIFA haven't done enough.

I think they're very... You can disagree with them.

No problem, you can disagree with them.

But I think they're valid enough opinions to be able to state publicly as a politician.