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Today with David McCullagh · Will the Ireland v Israel game go ahead in the Aviva? · 2 Jun 2026 podcast

And also, if you look at the remaining 20,000 tickets, how many people are actually going to purchase those to go into Israel here in early October?

I think at this point you can foresee that that's going to be very few.

No, there's no indication of that.

And David Carell, the FUHC executive speaking in February, mentioned that the UEFA hadn't threatened any additional sanctions.

I know there was speculation about Ireland's hosting of Euro 2028 and one of the co-hosts not being affected, but no, there hasn't been.

So...

From that perspective, we can only deal with what we know as definite.

And that is, under the UAB's rule book, there'll be six points deducted and minus six in goals.

And that would be basically the sum consequence from a football perspective.

No, and this is the problem the FBI have, I think, in that they're basically being isolated here.

You have Austria and Kosovo also in the group.

And before Ireland play Israel, Austria are due to host Israel on home territory.

And there's no appetite from their behalf to either move the fixture out of the country...

or uh forfeit at all so like this is the problem with that that you have there's no there's no real stomach from within your way for it to move on this because none of the other nations really are as um steadfast as ireland are on this and all and significantly you have none of the big superpowers like spain germany england france really causing a store over this so i think there's going to be action it'll be purely from the feo and the irish government

Yeah, and topically there's a motion being put forward by Sinn Féin next week that not only would they cancel the fixtures, but they would recompense the FEI for any financial loss.

And that is on the basis of the two options being to stop the game rather than move the game.

So if the FEI's fear is being hit in the coffers, well, that's one area of mitigation.

So we don't know what way that's going to go, but at least it keeps the conversation going.

because I think we're going to have sort of a summer of discontent on this.

It's certainly going to be plenty of airtime and Colin Minch is devoted to this topic.

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