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Mounting Pressure As Dáil To Discuss Football Fixtures Against Israel Today

The discussion comes as the association looks for UEFA to move the October match from Dublin to a neutral venue, which is likely to be in Hungary.

Pressure is mounting on the FAI over Ireland's upcoming football fixtures against Israel, with the Dáil set to debate the issue today.

The discussion comes as the association looks for UEFA to move the October match from Dublin to a neutral venue, which is likely to be in Hungary.

Sinn Féin and campaigners are calling for the games to be cancelled altogether - A public meeting will take place in Blanchardstown in Dublin with a host of speakers calling for a boycott, and saying no to a sportswashing of genocide.

There is a motion going to an FAI EGM to stop the game.

Yesterday sources in Government suggested the FAI had come to its decision independently - and would be backed by the coalition.

It fits in with the hands off approach Ministers have taken - expressing the view this is very much the FAI's mess to sort out.

Opposition parties though say simply moving the venue away from Ireland isn't good enough - and Government should take the lead in calling for the matches not to be played at all due to Israel's war in Palestine.

Later the Dáil will debate a motion from Sinn Féin calling for just that to happen - and for the Government to absorb any financial penalties the FAI might face for not fulfilling the fixtures.

Cabinet will meet this morning where the issue will be discussed and debated, ahead of them taking a position.
 

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