Richie Sadlier👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
"It's baffling to me, how...it is controversial or contentious or objectionable that someone suggests...do you know what maybe let's not play football against them.
Maybe instead of playing a match against them, maybe let's not play a match."
A brilliant reply from RTÈ and one which should be applauded.
Can we assume this exact logic also applies to Ireland v Israel?
If not then why?
#StopTheGame
A message from Liam Óg:
"A massive thank you to my legal team.
Darragh, Jude, blinne, Brenda, Gareth and to all at Phoenix law.
A special thanks also to my interpreter Susan.
This entire process was never about me, never about any threat to the public and never about "terrorism", a word used by your government to discredit people you oppress.
It was always about Gaza.
About what happens if you dare to speak up.
As people from Ireland we know oppression, colonialism, famine and genocide.
We have suffered and still suffer under "your empire".
Your attempts to silence us have failed, because we are right, and you are wrong.
We will not be silent.
We said we would fight you in your court and we would win.
We have.
If anyone on this planet is guilty of terrorism, it is the British state.
Free Palestine!
Tiocfaidh ár lá."
Last year I was told by the producers of the show that Kneecap could NOT wear Palestine badges on their clothes when on the Late Late Show....
Literally take them off or we will not permit broadcast.
Mo on the verge of tears after scoring yesterday, Robbo pointing to the heavens and blowing a kiss after the penalty went in. Easy as the fixtures keep rolling to forget that these are young men who have lost a friend a couple months ago. Something Mo tweeted in the aftermath stuck with me:
"I am truly lost for words. Until yesterday, I never thought there would be something that would frighten me of going back to Liverpool after the break."
The fact that the lads are sticking together and finding a way to get results is unbelievable, the performance don't need in depth analysis yet, let the manager do that, they just need our unadulterated support.
what was done to Charlie Kirk has been done to countless Palestinian babies, children, girls, boys, women and men not just over the past two years of the ongoing genocide, but decades. And whenever it happened, and it's on camera and we all saw it, Charlie Kirk came out to say: I love this, I want more of this. The people who did this are great and I love them and they should keep doing it forever.
As Malcolm said, the chickens have come home to roost.
German police punching and breaking the arm of an Irish activist, Kitty O'Brien.
Authoritarianism is on the rise across the West as governments desperately try to shut down any criticism of genocide.
🇵🇸🇮🇪 Tonight, the Bohs team wear training t-shirts to commemorate Suleiman al-Obeid – the “Palestinian Pelé.”
A legend of Palestinian football, Suleiman scored over 100 goals and represented his country 24 times.
On 6 August, aged 41, he was murdered by Israeli forces in Gaza while waiting for food aid. He leaves behind his wife and five children.
Rest in power, Suleiman.