John Fallon

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Today with David McCullagh · Ireland collapse in Kosovo as Israel game looms · 25 Sep 2026 podcast

With what's going on politically here, uh there's on a highly charged atmosphere with their political heroes uh being sentenced there to cumulative eighty three years last week.

So there's a lot of that that passion was in in the stadium and you could see it from the goal scorers' celebration as well, putting it up with the T shirt.

Uh I th I as much as the players say it doesn't, I think I think it did.

I think they

played like a team who were bored last night.

Um yeah, like th as much as they've been cocooned in the hotel, particularly the players who are based in Ireland, their families are all aware of the the depth of feeling

the Irish population towards Israel and the solidarity of the Palestinian people.

Uh like there's been very few sound bites as you know from the Irish players, but we did get to speak to three of them um after the game last night, one of which was uh Albene who Tony spoke to there.

But one in partic one in particular, Jason Knight, he was probably the kind of first player who outrightly said that this game's against these games against Israel should not go ahead.

So that gives you an indication that there is a there is a

feeder within the camp.

That this is a this is these are fixtures that they don't want to be part of.

Uh so yeah, i i i it an eerie backdrop to heading into these games, yeah, 'cause um

all the traditional FEI protocols such as uh holding their uh traditional lunch with the delegates at off the table.

There'll be no spa sponsor backdrops.

Very little just like it's the first time even since Israel have had to move of their home country to play matches that have refused a ticket allocated.

So yes they're not facilitating tickets, but

I do know for a fact that there will be some March fans uh in the Brecken for the match on Sunday.

But there will be an international with no water.

It's probably only two two and a half thousand people inside the stadium just to the background as soil and so

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