{"id":492126,"date":"2026-06-10T08:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T08:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/492126\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T08:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T08:35:08","slug":"moral-cowardice-local-td-on-moving-ireland-israel-game-to-neutral-venue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/492126\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Moral cowardice&#8217; &#8211; local TD on moving Ireland-Israel game to neutral venue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A local TD has told the D\u00e1il moving Ireland&#8217;s football match against Israel to a neutral venue is &#8216;cowardly&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Sinn F\u00e9in tabled a motion in the D\u00e1il, calling for October&#8217;s Nation&#8217;s League game to be scrapped entirely.<\/p>\n<p>This was debated in Leinster House last night.<\/p>\n<p>The FAI is seeking to move the match from Dublin to a neutral venue &#8211; but Sinn F\u00e9in&#8217;s Sorca Clarke says that&#8217;s not enough:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A local TD has told the D\u00e1il moving Ireland&#8217;s football match against Israel to a neutral venue is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":492127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-492126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492126","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=492126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}