{"id":536774,"date":"2026-07-07T03:12:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T03:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/536774\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T03:12:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T03:12:17","slug":"some-things-are-bigger-than-football-pico-lopes-says-israel-ireland-games-shouldnt-go-ahead-the-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/536774\/","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Some things are bigger than football&#039;: Pico Lopes says Israel-Ireland games shouldn&#039;t go ahead &#8211; The Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMid0FVX3lxTE5QYlNUeG5JNEVFSUsxZW0xZW9lSWNBR2R2am9qTF9sa0RqYWxKUFlNMFNkdUlSZDRhak5hWkJ3TDB2aVVZSWpaSy02bEhnZVZQUVdWcW40OWE3NTNUZW9xT2JieW9VNGtUQTdFMUFPbWllTndfRVlB?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8216;Some things are bigger than football&#8217;: Pico Lopes says Israel-Ireland games shouldn&#8217;t go ahead<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Journal<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMi0wFBVV95cUxNd25sNEg5VlkySU9ybThtemFWZ0tQSkFJYXdoM1FDeV9mbV9HeVVfWm9jZ3lVUjVyVTNJNVVXSEpKR0J3ZUpZazZMLWp3cTJieGNxSnBSbkZPZTdYaWxOWlRUVzVFMFdJYVVIWnptekgwNkprQUMtMzFYbUlnQldhUm1ZR1FjVm9GUllEOGpBaDlJYnNFeF9lQ2g4czhITmxEYlRLR0xEdnNfUmxsb1AwRXM0U3diNzJtS2J6UWNQX0VWaU1LUlYyQ1hncUpPMUc4U0dR?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hungary and Serbia can hardly be called neutral venues for Ireland-Israel fixtures<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Irish Times<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiqwFBVV95cUxQeXRyRGZ3US1kRnh6OURVWlRVRnBUZnZmRkYyckxiZVowN19QNDJ3dTgwcWpEa0RudlI1bmRYRUNfWXM4U1ljSWpfdWxuMHl0cng0cnZ2RXBfdjI4a09JNkFjRUxBQnZ2anhDR09rcmFGTHMyVzBqTUt2WjhydjVMTnhjalkxTEpodEZLdzRqSm1Xeml2ZWlnbDlJLTctb2loS2FSQ0w1b3hJbXc?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Republic of Ireland&#8217;s home game against Israel to be played in Serbia<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;RTE.ie<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMirgFBVV95cUxNUGw5cHdpdGt2cmZvdFNFdXhIV1ZlUnZMQ3lmY1QtekhLekNzWkxyRTBjRm5STENxQXNkQWpqOU52cXB5bGs2ZS1xcnZKWUYzLTRxc2VwSVNzNGVKT3o1VGZ5d2pyU2ZZQU5HYTA0alhJWW4yZTNOazlYTkY0ZmVCV2VfcENaT1FxNkhIazJOZ0V5TlVzeVk2cDBhUnBzbHdlTS1jTEdZUTIyckQ4anc?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Conor McKeon: The cost of playing Israel is moral bankruptcy<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Irish Independent<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMijgFBVV95cUxOWHRfVjJpRHc2TlVocVR1d0FQQ09DS3BGTlotNW1NNTVQazF0QzBOTWl0U3BBem45WTFZN2hVOFpHSklsWEtMQVpucE5lUnNsT0hfMDVUU0tLZmMxTndJNGJKelVFS3VERzM5NW4xMUVxZWdRa2czeG5CUWxQUFZ4UXl5U25YMjJHdnFWR2Z30gGTAUFVX3lxTFBvZGo2MjB4UEhaSGx6QnB2WlNNMFhaTGZXY0N6cjF5eUxkSnZ5S0dpQzV6azBRWVpiOVE4X21FQzBwTXNDYUgzUGw3UFpKRUZCa2NIWUpRUXlIWHd2ZFo5RTRqMG4zZkotQnZQMzFvdi1UZFVCOEphZUQ0QjFsZkpRS19jZDM0dUxyU0pVcUEzMUdLMA?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">FAI take EGM gamble, but what happens if their carefully worded motion fails?<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Irish Mirror<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;Some things are bigger than football&#8217;: Pico Lopes says Israel-Ireland games shouldn&#8217;t go ahead&nbsp;&nbsp;The JournalHungary and Serbia can&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":536775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[51959,1113,1128,61,60,3410,59269,51962,3404,11113,112,189761,4018],"class_list":["post-536774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-cape-verde","tag-fai","tag-football","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-israel","tag-nations-league","tag-pico-lopes","tag-republic-of-ireland","tag-shamrock-rovers","tag-sports","tag-stop-the-game","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536774","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=536774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}