{"id":637153,"date":"2026-09-27T00:54:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T00:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/637153\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T00:54:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T00:54:16","slug":"ireland-decide-to-play-israel-in-nations-league-after-squad-vote-football-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/637153\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland decide to play Israel in Nations League after squad vote | Football News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__subhead u-inline \">Ireland will play their Nations League fixture against Israel on Sunday after holding a squad vote on whether to proceed, following one player\u2019s intention to withdraw. Head coach Heimir Hallgr\u00edmsson said playing the match does not mean supporting the war in Gaza, adding that the team intends to wear black armbands in memory of lives lost.<\/p>\n<p>Published On 26 Sep 202626 Sep 2026<\/p>\n<p>Share Ireland decide to play Israel in Nations League after squad vote on social media<\/p>\n<p>share-nodes<\/p>\n<p class=\"rich-share__social-text\">Share<\/p>\n<p>googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland will play their Nations League fixture against Israel on Sunday after holding a squad vote on whether&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":637154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1813,1128,97,16101,45680,61,60,3410,45231,1196,43,249454,209397,850],"class_list":["post-637153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-europe","tag-football","tag-gaza","tag-human-rights","tag-humanitarian-crises","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-israel","tag-israel-palestine-conflict","tag-middle-east","tag-news","tag-newsfeed","tag-show-types","tag-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637153","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=637153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/637154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}