{"id":644308,"date":"2026-10-04T07:04:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T07:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/644308\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T07:04:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T07:04:19","slug":"fai-rejects-racism-allegation-as-ireland-israel-press-conference-ends-abruptly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/644308\/","title":{"rendered":"FAI Rejects Racism Allegation As Ireland-Israel Press Conference Ends Abruptly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Saturday, 3 October 2026 16:30\n                <\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__author\">\n                        By Mark Hanbidge\n                                            <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/68c12ec5377bb.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            An FAI communications official immediately rejected the allegation as untrue and brought the press conference to a close.\n        <\/p>\n<p>The Republic of Ireland&#8217;s pre-match press conference in Serbia ended suddenly today after an Israeli journalist accused Irish players of making racist remarks towards Israel players.<\/p>\n<p>An FAI communications official immediately rejected the allegation as untrue and brought the press conference to a close.<\/p>\n<p>The exchange came ahead of Sunday&#8217;s Nations League meeting between the sides in Backa Topola.<\/p>\n<p>Ireland manager Heimir Hallgrimsson had earlier stressed that he wants his players focused on football after a difficult international window, with his side currently on four points from three matches.<\/p>\n<p>Dara O&#8217;Shea has left the squad for family reasons, while James Abankwah is suspended for Sunday&#8217;s game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saturday, 3 October 2026 16:30 By Mark Hanbidge An FAI communications official immediately rejected the allegation as untrue&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,28328,3770,43],"class_list":["post-644308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kfm","tag-kildare","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644308","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=644308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}