{"id":475849,"date":"2026-05-31T07:58:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T07:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/475849\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T07:58:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T07:58:35","slug":"up-the-bohs-new-york-mayor-zohran-mamdani-backs-league-of-ireland-club-in-video-message-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/475849\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Up the Bohs\u2019: New York mayor Zohran Mamdani backs League of Ireland club in video message \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York<\/a> City mayor Zohran Mamdani<\/a> said \u201cUp the Bohs\u201d, backing community-owned football club Bohemian FC<\/a>, during a video message in support of a political festival in Dublin next week.<\/p>\n

\u201cGreetings to my friends at the Robert Tressell Festival,\u201d he said, referring to the political festival to be held in RDS Concert Hall in Dublin in early June. <\/p>\n

\u201cAlthough there may be an ocean between New York and Dublin, solidarity is a powerful force. As we take one the forces of oligarchy and authoritarianism, it has never been more important that we stand together to protect the daylight and the air we breathe. <\/p>\n

\u201cThank you for your work. And, as always, up the Bohs.\u201d<\/p>\n

His remarks about the League of Ireland<\/a> club, which has previously used its platform and jerseys to champion social causes and solidarity with Palestinians, come after of wider remarks he has made about Ireland and Irish politics since he became mayor. <\/p>\n

Mamdani is a democratic socialist and mentioned James Connolly, Patrick Pearse and Roger Casement in his St Patrick\u2019s Day message.<\/p>\n

In March, he also referred to the Troubles, the 1981 hunger strikes by republican prisoners in the Maze prison, the Dunnes Stores strike against apartheid South Africa and Troy Parrott\u2019s winning goal over Hungary for a place in the World Cup qualification play-offs. <\/p>\n

He spoke about Irish history and focused on \u201cthe solidarity the Irish have shown with the downtrodden and forgotten\u201d \u2013 in particular with Palestinians<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He is also a vocal Arsenal FC fan and wore a club scarf at a recent press conference. He wrote an opinion piece for The New York Times<\/a> in the wake of the London club\u2019s Premier League title-race victory, referring to the team as \u201cwe\u201d throughout as he gave a timeline of his long-time support. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani said \u201cUp the Bohs\u201d, backing community-owned football club Bohemian FC, during a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3407,615,61,60,2539,4320,112,20922],"class_list":["post-475849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-bohemians","tag-dublin","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-league-of-ireland","tag-new-york","tag-sports","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475849","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=475849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}