Posted on 06/08/2021 7:11:20 PM PDT by Olog-hai
The Republic of Ireland players were booed as they took the knee as their game against Hungary kicked off.
Stephen Kenny’s men played out a 0-0 draw against the Hungarians in Budapest on Tuesday night.
As the referee blew the whistle to get things under way, the Ireland players took the knee in support of the anti-racism movement in football.
However, the Hungarians stayed standing, pointing the UEFA’s “Respect” badge on their sleeves, while the home fans booed. …
(Excerpt) Read more at irishmirror.ie ...
Many Irishmen joined UK forces fighting Hitler.
In the course of the war, an estimated 70,000 citizens of neutral Ireland served as volunteers in the British Armed Forces (and another estimated 50,000 from Northern Ireland,[34] and this figure does not include Irish people who were resident in Britain before the war (though many used aliases). Those who deserted the Irish Army to serve in the British Army, on returning to Ireland were stripped of all pay and pension rights, and banned for seven years from any employment paid for by state or government funds
They whored themselves in the early 20th century resorting to terrorism for independence and sucking up to Germany in WWII
I say this as someone whose DNA per a paid study is 30% Irish and Ulster Scots
In tv it’s called jumping the shark moment....
Good.
FU, Ireland!
All the best Irish came here.
From 3 weeks ago...
https://www.tasnimnews.com/en/news/2021/05/19/2505809/iran-s-foreign-minister-in-ireland-for-talks
Nuff said.
Saw a link in there to a story from yesterday about Obama opening up his mouth again and accusing Hungary and Poland of being “authoritarian”. Sounds like it deserves a thread on here maybe, if you or someone else didn’t already do so.
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