
After an internal vote, the players of the Irish team have decided to maintain their two Nations League matches against Israel, despite calls for a boycott linked to the conflict in Gaza.
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Irish players had expressed the wish to boycott matches against Israel to protest against the war in Gaza.
The decision is made. Irish players decided by a majority, in a vote, to play the two matches scheduled against Israel in the League of Nations, despite the wish of some of them to boycott them to protest against the war in Gaza, the Irish Federation announced on Saturday.
“We organized a vote within the team to determine their feelings about playing the matches” against Israel, Sunday in Debrecen (Hungary) then on October 4 in Backa Topola (Serbia), announced the president of the Federation, David Courell, during a press conference in Debrecen. A “significant majority” expressed their intention to play these matches, he added.
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