{"id":636965,"date":"2026-09-26T20:06:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T20:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/636965\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T20:06:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T20:06:12","slug":"fai-confirm-that-ireland-will-play-nations-league-game-against-israel-after-a-player-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/636965\/","title":{"rendered":"FAI confirm that Ireland WILL play Nations League game against Israel after a player vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fm104.ie\/news\/fm104-news\/\" class=\"c-btn c-btn--small c-btn--secondary-fill\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>        All FM104 News<br \/>\n    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/6ab802dc456b7a0e01b.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>\n                                    Photo By Seb Daly\/Sportsfile via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            However, one player has left the squad&#8230;\n        <\/p>\n<p>The Football Association of Ireland confirmed that the Nations League game against Israel will go ahead after a player vote.<\/p>\n<p>The fixture in Hungary was in doubt after the Republic&#8217;s news conference and training session were both delayed on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The FAI says the majority of the Ireland squad has voted to go ahead with Sunday&#8217;s match against Israel.<\/p>\n<p>The team trained at the matchday venue in Hungary, after cancelling an earlier session as well as a press conference.<\/p>\n<p>However, one player has left the squad and the rest of the team won&#8217;t be doing any media appearances for the remainder of this international window.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a delayed press conference this afternoon, FAI CEO David Courell, says talks and consultations with the players continued for around four hours on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/onic-player\/id6747436925?ppid=9a0d5cd8-6997-43a3-8721-1e4cc9244dd1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1790453172_493_68da98f493cd3.png\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All FM104 News Photo By Seb Daly\/Sportsfile via Getty Images However, one player has left the squad&#8230; The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":636966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[26625,615,26622,26620,26621,61,60,26626,26627,43,26624,5596,26623],"class_list":["post-636965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-104-drive","tag-dublin","tag-dublin-radio-station","tag-fm104","tag-fm104-homepage","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-job-finder","tag-listen-live","tag-news","tag-phoneshow","tag-podcast","tag-strawberry-alarm-clock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636965","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=636965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/636966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}