{"id":304715,"date":"2026-02-18T19:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T19:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/304715\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T19:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T19:01:09","slug":"drogheda-united-chairperson-joanna-byrne-says-she-was-asked-to-resign-after-calling-for-fai-to-boycott-israel-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/304715\/","title":{"rendered":"Drogheda United chairperson Joanna Byrne says she was asked to resign after calling for FAI to boycott Israel game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Breaking\u00a0|\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Drogheda United chairperson Joanna Byrne says she was asked to step down after saying that Ireland's Nations League clashes with Israel should not go ahead. Photo by Stephen McCarthy\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/5e3a5b21-430d-4964-a9f8-08059141089d.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Drogheda United chairperson Joanna Byrne says she was asked to step down after saying that Ireland&#8217;s Nations League clashes with Israel should not go ahead. Photo by Stephen McCarthy\/Sportsfile<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Drogheda United chairperson Joanna Byrne, the Sinn F\u00e9in TD for Louth, has said that the club\u2019s board of directors have asked her to resign from the position on account of her comments suggesting that Ireland should not play their Nations League games with Israel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Byrne has refused to step down and asserted that she stands over her comments in a statement released through Sinn F\u00e9in this evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Breaking\u00a0|\u00a0 Drogheda United chairperson Joanna Byrne says she was asked to step down after saying that Ireland&#8217;s Nations&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3264,14640,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-304715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-daniel-mcdonnell","tag-drogheda-united-fc","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304715","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=304715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}