I'd happily take my family to an all Ireland event hosted in Northern Ireland if there wasn't tri coloured balaclava idiots running around talking about "getting the brits out"
Until then it'll never be inclusive and I'll have fuck all to do with it.
For years the case for a united Ireland has rested on an implied insult. That Northern Ireland is a cold house, that unionism cannot host, cannot share, cannot be generous with a culture not its own. This week Belfast has shattered that myth. The Fleadh has been welcomed here, and welcomed well, in a city under the constitutional arrangement republicans insist is the obstacle to Irish cultural life. The obstacle turns out to be imaginary. What remains is a Northern Ireland confident enough to hold an all-Ireland festival and lose nothing by it, which is a harder thing for republicanism to answer than any objection unionists could have raised. The United Kingdom is for everyone.
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It is increasingly evident that there is a concerted and ongoing effort by some to undermine FIFA and its President. Those who do not have the support of FIFA’s Member Associations should not seek to achieve through allegation, insinuation or misinformation what they cannot achieve through FIFA’s established democratic processes.
Recent reporting has included unsubstantiated assertions and demonstrably false claims concerning FIFA and its President. Speculation and insinuation should not be presented as fact, and repetition does not make an allegation true.
The FIFA President has dedicated more than 30 years of his professional life to European and world football, contributing to significant change in the game and, in particular, to broadening access, resources and opportunity across world football. Change inevitably challenges established interests, but disagreement with that change cannot justify efforts to undermine the democratic mandate of FIFA’s President or the institution he was elected to lead.
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FIFA’s responsibility is to its 211 Member Associations and to football around the world. We will not be distracted or diverted from strengthening the organisation, delivering for our Member Associations and continuing the work of making football truly global. Through the FIFA President and the FIFA administration, our focus remains firmly on that mission, and we are more determined than ever to fulfil it.
Who wore those balaclavas in the Northern Ireland conflict?
The murderers. The maimers. The widow and orphan makers. The bombers. The putrid blood-and-soil nationalist wretches whose true delight was the tearing apart of human bodies. Loyalist, republican: equally evil.
The colour of the wool doesn’t make it cute, and there’s no room for a sense of humour here. There’s little more vile than putting these on a kid.
🚨 INEOS/Manchester United’s “failed” transfer targets this summer:
• Elliot Anderson — £116m? United refused to be robbed.
• Mateus Fernandes — £85m + huge wages? Spurs can have him.
• Sandro Tonali — £100m? Walked away.
• Tchouaméni — Real Madrid didn’t want to sell and the total package was enormous. Move on.
• Lewis Hall — Newcastle demanded around £60m and refused to negotiate properly. United didn’t panic.
• Manu Koné — £51m with doubts internally. No point forcing it.
• Bruno Guimarães — £75m for a player approaching 29? Sensible decision.
• Alex Scott — Bournemouth wanted around £80m. Absolutely ridiculous.
• Carlos Baleba — Brighton quoting £75-100m. Again, United refused to get rinsed.
And people are calling this a FAILURE?
For YEARS Manchester United fans complained that clubs saw us coming, doubled the price and watched us pay it anyway.
Now INEOS finally walk away from ridiculous valuations and suddenly everyone wants Woodward back.
You cannot demand financial discipline and then have a meltdown every time United refuse to spend £100m on your favourite midfielder.
INEOS are changing the culture.
No desperation, United tax or stupid bidding wars. If the deal doesn’t make sense, WALK AWAY.
How am I only coming across this now? It's really not surprising that DAERA have done this tbh.. Worst run government sector in the world!!! I know from personal experience from helping family that these IDIOTS know nothing about farming AT ALL!
@AndrewMuirNI
BLOOD ON YOUR HANDS
Minister @AndrewMuirNI , did you have any prior knowledge that around 51 apparently healthy cows would be shot in an open field in Fivemiletown by DAERA, a department led by you?
Uefa paid off an alleged mistress of Gianni Infantino while he was its general secretary, The Telegraph can disclose.
The woman received a six-figure sum after the alleged relationship with Mr Infantino while he was a top official at European football’s governing body.
Read our full investigation 👇
https://t.co/8uG4YLrVBS
The Argentine FA has announced a National Football Teams Day to mark Argentina's victory over England at the 2026 World Cup 🇦🇷
The commemorative day will be celebrated on 15th July, the day the fixture was played
🚨💣 BREAKING: Gianni Infantino’s plan was to be the commissioner of the FIFA Forward Enterprise after his Presidency.
His basic salary would have been $30 MILLION annually BEFORE any bonuses. @martynziegler