{"id":133736,"date":"2025-10-20T10:58:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T10:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/133736\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T10:58:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T10:58:14","slug":"colm-orourke-the-gaa-must-make-a-stand-on-gaza-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/133736\/","title":{"rendered":"Colm O\u2019Rourke: The GAA must make a stand on Gaza issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Ending Allianz sponsorship over genocide is the correct thing to do<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Croke Park. Photo: Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/61607587-acec-4f9f-b34e-9613c960a1f2.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Croke Park. Photo: Sportsfile<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Over a month ago, a group of over 800 former county players signed a letter requesting that the GAA end it\u2019s long standing relationship with Allianz. The reason for this is Allianz\u2019s association with the Israeli war machine and the fact that Allianz is a major investor in companies like Elbit Systems, who manufacture drones for the Israeli military.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">They also invest heavily in Israeli war bonds through Pimco. In simple terms, the genocide in Gaza and the destruction of the enclave is good for business from an Allianz point of view.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ending Allianz sponsorship over genocide is the correct thing to do Croke Park. Photo: Sportsfile Over a month&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[80069,80070,9,10,80068,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,5,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-133736","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-allianz-football-league","9":"tag-allianz-hurling-league","10":"tag-breaking-news","11":"tag-breakingnews","12":"tag-colm-orourke","13":"tag-featured-news","14":"tag-featurednews","15":"tag-headlines","16":"tag-latest-news","17":"tag-latestnews","18":"tag-main-news","19":"tag-mainnews","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-top-stories","22":"tag-topstories","23":"tag-world","24":"tag-world-news","25":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}