{"id":298073,"date":"2026-02-14T17:23:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T17:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/298073\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T17:23:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T17:23:09","slug":"unthinkable-for-ireland-to-play-israel-in-nations-league-says-mary-lou-mcdonald-the-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/298073\/","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Unthinkable&#039; for Ireland to play Israel in Nations League, says Mary Lou McDonald &#8211; The Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMimwFBVV95cUxNYVJ6MmJqM1Z4NHBaUEVjSnBpeFNwN044TGVqM1dmSTRyUS1nVjRBcklNMmo1Ti1DMWxyczBNSTNxT1c0X21sU1BoYTV2TFBUOHVjS0RwZUwycm8wek41cGotRnVNNGNpNnNsS1o5QVpNbWVZVW94MEViS3A5WjVKdGxzM0swQUNGSVpTM3dkenNkUTZkRFVZbWpVSQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8216;Unthinkable&#8217; for Ireland to play Israel in Nations League, says Mary Lou McDonald<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Journal<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMib0FVX3lxTE9fTWc3S0NPTm8wWWtIdjR3bDN1VmlPYUkwMGZHdy0xUzEyc3hVajFMQmdFNF9vRlZ0c0tkWW9KNnlwYVMzTlM0dmc5aXl5anRBQVB0WDdYX2U1YTl1ZGJVQ3QwYlNjMzZZVWdGOWI5NA?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">McDonald calls on FAI not to fulfil games against Israel<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;RTE.ie<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMikgFBVV95cUxQeWNQR01XTFl3SnlEWVJMVmJ3dmhUaGE4QWZNQjZzRlRMb25Nby1QeWdNeEo4N1F3cWx1MkZrSE5pbm1ueUU5Q1laMkR6MG15ZG14UkIybzJtbWU3TW9tdjNZQTlrRG1weHFqM1lyRnZ0aTR0YmVlN2RwUW5xM1VPc2lid1d3VHVuNktGd1RfWTl4QQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ireland must not play Israel in Nations League \u2013 Joanna Byrne TD<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;sinnfein.ie<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMigwFBVV95cUxPQ2dIWElUTGExMkhsN0R0bVBFYnF5a09VSHNHejBlVjViaHBkRVJtOTdTU3VXSTl0WllONUQ4WFNodUhMLWVUaXJNeDQ1WU5hbFRyc2pYVkRaNHl3ejJFNzVhaGdnanNKcUR5QUJDLUlXQW9iRFpFbnZZV2pOMzYtUkt6MA?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Surrealing in the Years: There was never any chance that we wouldn&#8217;t draw Israel<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Journal<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMilAFBVV95cUxNWE9RZWZoVERYNFNPS01sb1RFSEdWdWRLRmVLWFJJd1RKTVFXcUFrQ2hsSldrdVZEenlKSFNEWHgzV1JvLWpvYUNNeEF2NEE4YzdUN2tDWFlfVGp4WkVReHU0aUtNLVBBZWh1cXBzZ0Zkb2piZ1pPZThkVFMxOVo2cE42ME9hQmVPeVR1aGl2QW9UZ2U2?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">All You Need to Know: Republic of Ireland Set for UEFA Nations League Draw<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Football Association of Ireland<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;Unthinkable&#8217; for Ireland to play Israel in Nations League, says Mary Lou McDonald&nbsp;&nbsp;The JournalMcDonald calls on FAI not&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298074,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4772,1113,61,60,3410,3658,59269,4268,112,30918],"class_list":{"0":"post-298073","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-boycott","9":"tag-fai","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-mary-lou-mcdonald","14":"tag-nations-league","15":"tag-palestine","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-uefa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}