About 2km from the Republic of Ireland’s Aviva Stadium, which won’t be hosting the home leg of the two Nations League games against Israel next week, there’s a notable indication as to why. Dublin’s Liberty Hall, the headquarters of the country’s main workers’ union, features a huge banner imploring the national team to “Stop the Game”.
That is also the name of the grassroots campaign behind the banner, which adds: “Go with your conscience, don’t play ball with genocide.”
