{"id":489169,"date":"2026-06-08T15:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T15:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/489169\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T15:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T15:33:08","slug":"ireland-v-israel-moving-closer-to-neutral-venue-as-fai-board-meet-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/489169\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland v Israel moving closer to neutral venue as FAI board meet again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The FAI are expected to confirm the switch of their home game against Israel to a neutral country following a board meeting today.<\/p>\n<p> Pressure has grown on the association to move the October 4 game out of Dublin and, ahead of a D\u00e1il motion by Sinn F\u00e9in on Tuesday calling for the Government to support a boycott, they\u2019ve decided to act.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"> While the FAI will have to compensate 30,000 season ticket holders, the feeling is additional sales will be sluggish for a fixture which public sentiment has grown against.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"> The Stop The Game campaign, with support from Brian Kerr, Pico Lopes and James McClean, last week lodged a motion that is due to be voted on at an upcoming emergency general meeting of the FAI.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"> Last week\u2019s men\u2019s friendly against Qatar was interrupted twice by protesters throwing tennis balls, emblazoned with Stop The Game, onto the Lansdowne Road pitch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"> On the eve of the game, Ireland defender S\u00e9amus Coleman  <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/sport\/soccer\/arid-41852517.html\">spoke<\/a> of how an \u2018uncomfortable\u2019 situation for players should have been \u2018dealt with\u2019 by the FAI and Uefa since the draw was made in February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"> Another player, Jamie McGrath, also admitted he would consult with his family before deciding whether to participate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"> The FAI board met last Thursday to consider the EGM motion and are convening again today remotely to progress the matter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"> It is now anticipated that they will update Sports Minister Charlie McConalogue ahead of him speaking during the motion\u2019s debate on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The FAI are expected to confirm the switch of their home game against Israel to a neutral country&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5658,23713,4712,1113,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-489169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-irish-examiner-instagram","tag-irish-examiner-instagram-sport","tag-israel-palestine","tag-fai","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489169","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=489169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}