‘I’m not going to be the one’: Uncomfortable Ireland players united over Israel fixtures

The Boys in GReen will assemble on Sunday for a four-game window that kicks off in Kosovo next Thursday.

Ireland manager Heimir Hallgrímsson. Pic: INPHO/Ryan Byrne

Ireland’s players feared being outliers by boycotting the double-header against Israel, according to manager Heimir Hallgrímsson.

The Icelander made a point of speaking to all 26 members of the squad he named yesterday to gauge their appetite for facing a country found by an independent UN report to have committed genocide in Palestine.