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Another area that is absolutely not going away and that sort of one of these topics leads to the other, but it's just as a complex conversation that you touched on earlier on around the Republic of Ireland men's national team games against Israel and the idea of whether we should play them or not. Should the fans turn up or not? Will there be protests inside, outside? What will that look like? Dan McDonald takes it on on the Sunday Independence Day. Israel issue won't vanish out of view. Opponents are exploring angles by referring to FAI rules. So more pressure expected to come on the FAI, not unlike Jarla Burns that we've been talking about. But David Carell has dug himself into a position of no return.
And in fairness, he has no ability to be grey on the issue. Obviously, they need to have a clear stance on it, which they have, which is that the games will go ahead. And I'll do just a bit of a quote here again, just to try and sum this. This is a quote from David Carell in Dan's piece. If an EGM is called, we'll respect that, obviously in relation to whether the game should go ahead or not, and we'll facilitate it and we will listen to the viewpoints of our members. However, the day-to-day responsibilities of the association, fulfilling tournament obligations, etc., that responsibility rests with the board and the executive and we have the requisite experience of leading international federations.
We have the full picture in terms of the broader spectrum of implications if a decision was taken or not. I hope you're still with me here. And therefore, we have arrived at our conclusion, and that is we will fulfil these games, and that is not to change. We listen to people, but the games are happening.
Yeah, I mean, but then you look at the surveys that are happening, you know, I mean, Dan points out there the 75% opposition to the games there amongst the Irish Football Supporters Partnership. And I know Mark Gallagher has a good column in the Mail as well today where he cites, I think, 90-something percent won a survey during the week as opposed to playing the game. So it's clear, I think...
What are the implications of Ireland's matches against Israel?
if this went out to a bigger population, like towards the fans or, you know, the professional footballers players, there would be a majority opposed to playing these games. But at the same time, you fully understand it because, you know, you're like, why should the footballers take the brunt of this and why should they suffer the consequences and why should grassroots football across Ireland suffer the consequences of a decision like this? And again, I think it's, it's always a bit unfair and I'm sure Jenny you'll have thoughts on this as well in terms of when an athlete puts so much into it and the players put so much into it and then something comes down from above and someone says well this sponsorship is they're linked to that or like you shouldn't be going there to do and the athlete is just like I just want to fulfil my dream of playing for Ireland and getting to a World Cup and stuff
It's a very unfair thing. And I think that is I think everyone is kind of on the same page that it shouldn't really be down to them to decide. But also, I think there should be filtering in of their opinions and even amongst the whole Irish footballing community and FAA members in terms of this decision. And, you know, put it out there at the Congress and stuff and let's have the actual votes and discussions resolved. rather than just a select group, as it seems to, you know, have been in terms of the Allianz sponsorship, like a kind of a select group of people who are making this decision and saying, well, this this has been, you know, a democratic process.
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