Shameful, immoral hypocrites: An open letter to the Irish football team - opinion

So you're going to wear black armbands in your match against Israel in Debrecen on Sunday?

I say good, wear them.

Wear them, because you deserve to be marked out.

Marked out in front of the world as the shameful, immoral hypocrites you are.

But you have forgotten something. The black armbands are incomplete. They are, of course, missing the swastika.

Don't worry, you still have time to sew them on. You can thank me later.

After all, don't forget your national side proudly played the Nazis in 1936 at Dalymount Park.

They didn’t consider protesting then. They even performed the Nazi salute in Germany in 1939 when everyone knew exactly what the Nazis stood for.

Today you are their worthy heirs, and you have not let them down. You share the same moral standards. You wouldn’t know that Debrecen’s almost entire Jewish community - nearly 10,000 people - was murdered during the Holocaust, but now you do; don’t let that prick your conscience while you’re running around with your little black armbands against the one and only Jewish state.

Hitler would be proud of you.

'You are totally ignorant'

Your brains are truly in your feet, because they're certainly not in your heads. You claim to be protesting against Israel's actions in Gaza, but let's face it, what your entire side knows about what's going on could fit on a postage stamp, because you are totally ignorant.

Where were you on October 7? Where were you when 1,200 innocent Israelis - including footballer Lior Asulin, 43, murdered at the Nova festival, and footballer Yaron Zohar, just 19, murdered fighting Hamas terrorist invaders - were slaughtered? I don't remember seeing any comparable gesture from your team for the Israelis massacred then.

So, your protest is disgusting, performative, and a national disgrace. You are cowards, and you belong in the dustbin of history, like your predecessors.