Irish activist and artist Ciarán Dunlevy has projected the words “Stop the Game” on to Dublin’s Aviva Stadium, demanding Ireland refuse to play against genocidal ‘Israel’ in two upcoming football matches. Dunlevy has previously highlighted other acts of Irish complicity, projecting an image on to an AIB building highlighting the bank’s plan to pay an ‘Israeli’ cybersecurity firm.
Paired with the Stop the Game message, Dunlevy also put up an image depicting Britain’s enforced starvation of Irish people in the mid 1800s. He projected the display near a replica of the Jeanie Johnson ship that was used to transport desperate Irish people off the island during the famine.
The image highlights the obscenity of Irish players, representing a nation that endured British starvation policies, now helping to normalise the Zionist entity as it today starves and murders Palestinians. Ireland has never recovered from British barbarism.
Irish players set to betray island’s history
Pre-famine population levels were over 8 million people. Britain’s theft of food in the mid 1800s left one million dead, and forced one million to emigrate. The island of Ireland currently has around 7.5 million people. Today, Zionist terrorists try everything they can to reduce the population in Palestine through genocide in Gaza, and ethnic cleansing in the West Bank.
Despite this, the Irish team seem happy to continue to help a murderous land theft project pass itself off as a normal state, by facilitating its continued participation in international sport. Ireland are set to take on a team of 11 land thieves in two Nations league fixtures. The first is set to take place on Sunday September 27, in Hungary.
The Irish squad are currently in Kosovo for a Nations League fixture on Thursday September 24. X accounts run by Kosovo fans praised Ireland for a previous refusal to play Yugoslavia when Serbian forces were carrying out atrocities there in the late 1990s. The Irish government was happy to make that politically more easy decision, but has been too cowardly to repeat the feat when it comes to the Zionist land theft project.
Matching government failure, in his pre-match press conference manager Heimir Hallgrimsson produced some truly pathetic remarks, as he rowed back on previous comments he made referencing ‘Israeli’ genocide. He said his words had taken “attention away from maybe what’s most important”. That is, the Kosovo match.
A football match is not more important than the attempted extermination of an entire people. Someone with a sense of proportion and a bit of backbone would have doubled down on the statement citing Zionist crimes. That ought to be followed by a call to abandon any intention of fulfilling the match versus the Zionist entity.
75.6% in Ireland oppose match going ahead
Instead, in self-pitying fashion, Hallgrimsson remarked that it was a “tricky time for us”. It’s a rather more ‘tricky’ time for people in Gaza, starving in vermin-infested threadbare tents, or being crushed to death in buildings previously bombed by Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF).
Ireland’s captain Dara O’Shea wasn’t much better. When a journalist asked if the team was considering any sort of protest at the match vs ‘Israel’, O’Shea simply said the players would “discuss” it on Friday after the Kosovo match is done.
The refusal of the Irish squad to withdraw from the ‘Israel’ matches stands in clear opposition to the wishes of the Irish public who they represent. 75.6% do not want the fixtures to go ahead. In recent days, Irish activists have ramped up efforts to convince the players to pull out. On Monday September 21, a crowd of around 200 breached the grounds of the players’ hotel and remained for two hours, chanting ‘Stop the Game’.
Countless pubs have pledged not to screen the match. National broadcaster RTÉ will not provide its normal matchday coverage. It will broadcast the match, but not send commentators or pundits. RTÉ staff were unhappy at the prospect of being complicit in the shameful spectacle. It now falls on the Irish players to withdraw their labour, and commemorate Ireland’s past suffering by standing in solidarity with Palestinians enduring similar brutality today.
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