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Irish Soccer team to wear rainbow Jersey in match with US (virtue signal piece)
Sport s Joe ^ | June 2nd 2018 | MATTHEW GAULT

Posted on 06/02/2018 2:49:31 PM PDT by Ennis85

The FAI gets a lot of slack – and maybe rightly so – but they deserve a lot of credit for making a statement in their latest move.

On Friday, the Irish soccer's governing body announced that the Republic of Ireland players will wear jerseys sporting the LGBT rainbow flag when they face the United States at the Aviva Stadium on Saturday night.

The numbers on the back of each Ireland player's top will feature rainbow colours as opposed to the traditional white.

The FAI posted an image on Twitter showing the number 4 jersey of John O'Shea, Ireland's defensive stalwart who will turn out for the Boys in Green for the 117th and final time, drawing the curtain on a 17-year international career.

The image was captioned: "The back of match kit. Not just a number, this is a statement. Ireland, supporting #LGBT rights."

https://twitter.com/FAIreland/status/1002624583193817089?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sportsjoe.ie%2Ffootball%2Ffai-hailed-for-162182

Some on social media complained, saying that it broke UEFA and FIFA rules about political and religious symbols on jerseys. Of course, any rational thinking human being will recognise that homosexuality is nothing to do with politics or religion. What the FAI is doing is simply showing solidarity during Pride Month.

The majority of replies hailed the FAI's move.

https://twitter.com/Miriam_Kennedy/status/1002667756779720704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sportsjoe.ie%2Ffootball%2Ffai-hailed-for-162182

The friendly in Dublin is Ireland's last match until the Euro Nations League opener against Wales in September.

It is set to be a big night for Graham Burke, who may earn his first start for Ireland.

The Shamrock Rovers striker came off the bench against France in Paris on Monday but may be handed a starting berth by Martin O'Neill with Shane Long out through injury.


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Society; Sports
KEYWORDS: homosexual; homosexualagenda; ireland; lgtb; soccer
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To: Ennis85

Blowing dudes cool, killing your baby in the womb cool. Western society is going into the shitter.


21 posted on 06/02/2018 4:17:30 PM PDT by EEGator (The best part of freedom of speech is it lets one know who the a-holes are...)
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To: Kozak

That was a hilarious scene the first time I saw it. :)
I know, it’s childish.


22 posted on 06/02/2018 4:18:21 PM PDT by EEGator (The best part of freedom of speech is it lets one know who the a-holes are...)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie; irishjuggler
Ireland as a country is dead.

No,not dead....its capital has simply been changed to Brussels.It would be less sad if Ireland were actually dead.

23 posted on 06/02/2018 4:18:36 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (You Say "White Privilege"...I Say "Protestant Work Ethic")
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To: Ennis85

I guess they like Lucky Charms cereal.


24 posted on 06/02/2018 4:18:39 PM PDT by Retvet (Retvete)
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To: Ennis85

And then, there was the queer Irishman, who preferred women to whiskey!


25 posted on 06/02/2018 4:20:00 PM PDT by Redleg Duke (The Democrats in California want another civil war over cheap labor!)
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To: Mozzafiato

National teams should not be engaging in anything considered political. I was quite unhappy seeing both teams with the rainbow.


26 posted on 06/02/2018 4:22:07 PM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing consequences of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: Retvet

Patrick Fitzgerald and Gerald Fitzpatrick.


27 posted on 06/02/2018 4:23:10 PM PDT by bankwalker (Immigration without assimilation is an invasion.)
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To: Ennis85

This is not over the rainbow. . .this is over the top.

The rainbow was God’s promise that He wouldn’t destroy the earth by flood. . .but it would do well for everyone to read the rest of HIStory!!!!


28 posted on 06/02/2018 4:24:41 PM PDT by Maudeen (www.ThereIsHopeInJesus.com)
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To: Ennis85

How about How about babyblood red, with little spangles of liver.


29 posted on 06/02/2018 4:29:51 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Pity this busy monster, manunkind.....................not. - (e.e. cummings))
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To: fuzzylogic

“National teams should not be engaging in anything considered political. I was quite unhappy seeing both teams with the rainbow.”

Exactly. This is all so tiresome.


30 posted on 06/02/2018 4:34:06 PM PDT by utahagen (but but)
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To: Ennis85

They’re trying to out homo each other. Nauseating!


31 posted on 06/02/2018 4:35:20 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: irishjuggler

32 posted on 06/02/2018 4:39:10 PM PDT by heterosupremacist (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. - (Thomas Jefferson)
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To: heterosupremacist

33 posted on 06/02/2018 4:39:44 PM PDT by heterosupremacist (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. - (Thomas Jefferson)
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To: heterosupremacist

34 posted on 06/02/2018 4:41:39 PM PDT by heterosupremacist (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. - (Thomas Jefferson)
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To: heterosupremacist
D'OH!!!
35 posted on 06/02/2018 4:42:23 PM PDT by heterosupremacist (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. - (Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

I had a Marine O Buddy from New York who was stationed with the UN Irish Forces.

On a drinking night (TRUE the IRISH and the NY Irish were drinking) he had made note of the fact that he was happy to be serving with his Irish Buddies and they not so graciously pointed out that he was nothing but a Yank with an Irish name.

I figured if that was how ‘they’ felt, I may as well just call myself an American of Irish descent who happened to have an O’C as part of his surname.

Seems like back in the ‘80s I made the correct choice.


36 posted on 06/02/2018 4:50:14 PM PDT by xrmusn ((6/98)""If bacon kills you and smoking kills you, How come you smoke bacon to cure it?")
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To: Ennis85

Many of the leaders of Sinn Fein fully support abortion and hold solidarity with Muslims immigration and Islamic terror. Such rich irony.


37 posted on 06/02/2018 4:56:59 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: Mozzafiato

Missed the faggot bowl.


38 posted on 06/02/2018 5:01:13 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: xrmusn
Yes, that sentimental Ireland of immigrants, of John McCormack, of Bing Crosby, of Hollywood—that died several generations ago. Most Irish in Ireland are as hard as nails, and without a gentle bone in the body. They've been suckled at the tits of European cynicism and depravity, all augmented by the Irish gift for blarney bullsh*t and double-talk.

And the worst and most unforgivable sin of the Irish is that they sent us the Kennedys.
 

39 posted on 06/02/2018 5:05:39 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (MAGA in the mornin', MAGA in the evenin', MAGA at suppertime . . .)
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To: Ennis85

The US recently had a player on a team who refused to wear the gay pride number on her jersey for religious reasons, so she was not allowed to play in the game. They wouldn’t let her wear a regular number. She also ended up getting booed when she played in Portland the other night.


40 posted on 06/02/2018 5:09:16 PM PDT by Pinkbell
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