While Kosovo rail against historical political machinations, Ireland energy is immersed in current struggle

The welter of feeling that these matches against a nation found by a United Nations investigation to have committed genocide in Gaza shouldn’t proceed at all isn’t lost on the camp

Ireland manager Heimir Hallgrímsson. Pic: Ryan Byrne/Inpho

Now we interrupt this furore to bring you some football.

What was described last week by the FAI chief executive as a ‘storm’ has swirled to Kosovo where their own politics continues to manifest in a public backlash.