**Updated list**
The last two years for Irish football:
- Sacked Stephen Kenny (Nov '23)
- CEO Jonathan Hill resigns (Apr '24)
- FAI takes 7 months to find a new manager
- 4 friendlies in that time for John O’Shea to audition for the job
- End up hiring their 'first-choice' Heimir Hallgrímsson
- €650k salary
- RTÉ documentary on mistreatment of female players by coaches (Jul '24)
- Colin Healy claims he was dismissed despite verbal reassurances he would be kept on WNT's coaching staff (Dec '24)
- Manage to stay in Nations League B by beating Bulgaria home and away
- Marc Canham resigns (Apr '25)
- Championship players given break from June squad as they'll need to be fresh for next year's World Cup
- 'Summer soccer' plan defeated (Aug '25)
- FAI launches voluntary redundancy programme, which will move towards compulsory job losses as part of restructuring (Aug '25)
- Will Clarke's Academy report reveals glaring issues with current facilities (Aug '25)
- Eileen Gleeson takes legal action against FAI for 'gender discrimination' (Aug '25)
- Play Doherty LB and go 2 goals down at home to Hungary inside the first 15 mins
- Get absolutely battered away to Armenia
- No clear structure on pitch
- Can't defend anymore
- Introduce ineffective long throw-ins because everyone else is doing them
- Players now seem to play better for their clubs than their country, and have done so for a long time
- Have conceded first in 9 of Heimir's 10 competitive games
- Can only buy tickets in three-match bundles until a week or two before
- FAI €43m in debt
- Still only €125k for LOI champions
- €32k for FAI Cup winners (+gate receipts)
- Shamrock Rovers and Shelbourne's success in Europe this season is in spite of their governing body
The FAI has failed Irish football.
There are many good people in the organisation who are about to lose their jobs due to the incompetence of top-level management.
Hopefully, last night is rock bottom, but my fear is we're still not even there yet.
Something just has to change.
IDF has just announced "suspension" of the daily "humanitarian pauses" in the destruction of Gaza (sorry, "warfighting"). There are no debates left. Israel is intentionally and willingly committing crimes against humanity. There is no "war". No lessons to be learned. Now is now.
Israel bombed a hospital.
Rescue workers and reporters rushed to recover the dead and the wounded.
Israel bombed the hospital again. Live on TV.
Read that again.
Our government’s legacy will be its complicity in crimes against humanity. End all arms sales to Israel, now.
❗️BREAKING❗️Rescuers killed in line of duty.
Scenes like this unfold every moment in Gaza, often unseen, largely undocumented. I beg STATES: how much more must be witnessed before you act to stop this carnage?
🔴Break the blockade
🔴Impose an Arms Embargo
🔴Impose Sanctions.
The targeting & killing of journalists in Gaza & the failure of the media to show collective solidarity & to take collective action is…incomprehensible.
I feel a such profound sense of shame & failure. It’s not just the death of journalists. It’s the death of journalism.
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To be clear what happened here.
Israel bombed a hospital.
They waited for paramedics and first responders to arrive.
Then they bombed it again.
This is known as the 'double tap'.
You are watching unfathomable evil, armed and facilitated by the West.
A live streamed genocide.
The Israeli military know exactly who their targets are when they fire missiles from drones.
At least 15 people, including paramedics, civil defence and 3 journalists, murdered on live television.
No-one can say they did not know 👇
Their crimes live streamed.
After hitting a hospital with a drone (a war crime) you can clearly see medics and journalists at the scene.
They then hit them with an air-strike murdering 15.
Evil beyond comprehension - israel must be isolated/dismantled
Live on air… Israel bombs civil defense teams as they try to retrieve the body of journalist Hossam Al-Masri, killed in an Israeli strike on Nasser Hospital.
Ongoing crimes before the eyes of the entire world.
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⚡️🇮🇱Israel’s Minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich:
"We conquer, cleanse, and stay... On the way, we annihilate everything that still remains.….We're breaking Gaza apart, leaving it as a pile of rubble, total unprecedented destruction."
Deeply shocked by Israel’s deliberate killing of the Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif, his colleague Mohammed Qreiqeh and cameramen Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal and Moamen Aliwa. Israel has now killed at least 186 journalists in the war.