Northern Ireland will press ahead with a friendly against Israel amid calls from a political party to cancel September’s game due to violence on the Gaza border.
Sinn Fein MLA Sinéad Ennis made her request directly to Irish Football Association chief executive Patrick Nelson at a meeting on Wednesday, citing “the indiscriminate slaughter and ongoing discrimination against Palestinians”.
“I am calling on the IFA to cancel this match and send out a strong signal that the slaughter of Palestinians in the open-air prison which is Gaza, is completely unacceptable,” she said