Oisín Coghlan
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Look, I don't think Qatar... I thought the football World Cup in Qatar was a mistake.
I think it's the plan to go to Saudi Arabia.
Football is being corrupted by money to a significant degree.
Not entirely, as Dan has been saying.
But all we can do is make our choices.
But you can't take away from the fact there is massive public interest and public opinion on this issue.
And there is the case that more than guitar, Israel claims to be a democracy, claims to be part of the Western Hemisphere, in quotes, competes in the Eurovision with those countries.
It makes those claims, and yet it is clearly...
repudiated and rejected those standards in recent years.
They have a strike of balance there.
I know there's a significant concern about two things.
One is, will Ireland look like it's anti-Semitic?
And obviously it can be anti-Israeli policy and not anti-Semitic.
But the other thing is, if we go ahead with the matches...