The Sunday Paper Review 27th September
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What headlines dominate the Sunday papers on politics and international affairs?
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Let's start with the Sunday papers. And joining us on our panel this morning to discuss all that is inside the front pages is Larry Donnelly, law lecturer at the University of Galway, and Lynn Boylan, Sinn Fein, MEP for Dublin. And you're both very welcome to the studio. So we're going to start with what's happening in Hungary and the ongoing Fallout from Ireland facing Israel, that match due to happen tonight. I think, Larry, it is fair to say that this has Ultimately ended up at a place that a lot of people didn't want, which was an issue that is now firmly at the feet of the players and it has become deeply personal and about them.
Yeah, absolutely. I I think this has been handled positively disastrously. I I think an awful lot was put on uh to the players. Um, you know, look, and I would have respected their decision one way or the other. Uh I respect the decision that they've come to, albeit under fraught circumstances. Uh I also respect Gavin Bazuno and what he has said. Um, look, they're they're all individuals and they have to make their own call, but they've been put in a an awful position and uh I suppose at a fundamental level Um, you know, you you have to ask, how the hell are they gonna play a match? I mean, how in on earth are they gonna play a match? How are their heads gonna be in this match at all? Uh and and in the end, um it's a pretty disastrous result, I I think all around.
Uh look a lot of the dialogue on this has been really, really heated. Uh a lot of the things that have been said, I think, um have haven't been good to to be frank. I think that uh some of the rhetoric on this is really Over the top. And I I think both Brenda Power and Allison O'Connor, I think, have good pieces today addressing some of those issues. Because look, the international coverage here again is going to come down to one thing. There's a tremendous amount of righteous anger in Ireland, and I get it, but it does seem to be particularly focused on this one issue. And we have, for instance, a situation where Ireland played Afghanistan. in cricket uh recently and there was narr uh uh a word about it.
Um and you know some of this to me uh seems to be just very one s focused on one thing and the anger, the absolute anger and rage that's there. Uh you know, again, I don't like what's going on either, but some of it is really, really vicious.
To come to you, Lynn, I'm going to go to that piece by Alison O'Connor in the Sunday Times today. And she says the outcry is not about Gaza and it's not about soccer. She said it's a sanctimonious show of outrage. There's performative protesting here in everybody who is on the side of cancelling this match, criticizing the players that are seeking an A plus on morality.
Yeah, and I think it's a deeply patronising uh article by Alison O'Connor. I completely disagree with her. Um first and foremost, I'm very proud of the fellow Tallaman, Gavin Bazuna, for taking the the very, very brave decision he has taken to not play this game. Um, I think the level of anger across the Irish public is because there is no consequences whatsoever for Israel. Um and that is the difference between You know, the anger of Israel and we're talking about other countries where there's human rights violations, that's all a distraction. Israel is in breach of FIFA's own rules. They play football on illegally occupied territory. They're footballers, they've killed hundreds of Palestinian footballers.
Um the genocide continues. The violent settlers continues to attack Palestinians with the aid of the Israeli government.
How are the controversies around the Israel‑Ireland football match being framed in the press?
So the anger is rightly pointed at Israel because it seems Israel can do whatever it wants.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What headlines dominate the Sunday papers on politics and international affairs?
0:00–4:05
2
How are the controversies around the Israel‑Ireland football match being framed in the press?
4:05–11:45
3
What legal and moral arguments are presented about players refusing to play the match?
11:45–20:57
4
How are the recent Garvagh Road protests and court rulings reported?
20:57–28:47
5
What are the key points of the upcoming Irish budget as covered by the Sunday papers?
28:47–31:05
6
How does the discussion address inheritance tax and its impact on families?
31:05–31:37
7
What solutions are proposed for the cost‑of‑living and energy crises?
31:37–31:53
8
How do the hosts wrap up the episode and preview upcoming content?
31:53–31:55