{"id":572583,"date":"2026-07-07T02:52:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T02:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/572583\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T02:52:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T02:52:13","slug":"some-things-are-bigger-than-football-pico-lopes-says-israel-ireland-games-shouldnt-go-ahead-the-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/572583\/","title":{"rendered":"'Some things are bigger than football': Pico Lopes says Israel-Ireland games shouldn't go ahead – The Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. ‘Some things are bigger than football’: Pico Lopes says Israel-Ireland games shouldn’t go ahead<\/a>  The Journal<\/li>\n
  2. Hungary and Serbia can hardly be called neutral venues for Ireland-Israel fixtures<\/a>  The Irish Times<\/li>\n
  3. Republic of Ireland’s home game against Israel to be played in Serbia<\/a>  RTE.ie<\/li>\n
  4. Conor McKeon: The cost of playing Israel is moral bankruptcy<\/a>  Irish Independent<\/li>\n
  5. FAI take EGM gamble, but what happens if their carefully worded motion fails?<\/a>  Irish Mirror<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"‘Some things are bigger than football’: Pico Lopes says Israel-Ireland games shouldn’t go ahead  The Journal Hungary and Serbia…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":572584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[76],"tags":[73793,18,18142,22,19,17,71,84771,73796,19863,13537,132,243998,35350],"class_list":["post-572583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-cape-verde","tag-eire","tag-fai","tag-football","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-israel","tag-nations-league","tag-pico-lopes","tag-republic-of-ireland","tag-shamrock-rovers","tag-sports","tag-stop-the-game","tag-world-cup"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116876433764400665","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572583","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=572583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}