00:07Hello, welcome everyone to today's press conference, I had a game tomorrow.
00:12Yeah, I tried to explain the reason why I said the word I said.
00:16Overnight, or sorry, this morning I should say, a player expressed their discomfort with fulfilling this fixture to the head
00:26coach
00:27and indicated their intent to withdraw from the squad.
00:32As you can understand, this new variable required time and deliberation for the rest of the squad to consider.
00:46What preceded was another four hours of conversations, predominantly amongst the players themselves,
00:53but also at times with the coaching staff and at times with the executive.
01:05Ultimately, within the last maybe 90 minutes, we carried out a vote amongst the squad
01:13to establish their sentiment on fulfilling the fixtures
01:19and it was a significant majority that was returned with the intention to continue.
01:28So, based on that, the association took the decision on behalf of Irish football
01:35that this fixture would continue, as we have always intended, to fulfill the fixtures.
01:43Considering how this has all been followed, are you happy to have the idea of hands on everyone to this
01:48point?
01:48So, we just want to make clear, we are not supporting anything that's happening in Gaza.
01:55We are playing this fixture because it's the rules of our game.
01:59We are playing this fixture because it's the rules of the competition we are in.
02:04And that's the reason we are here.
02:07We want to honour that.
02:14The question is, am I comfortable?
02:16Yeah.
02:17Absolutely.
02:17We said from the beginning, nobody is comfortable playing this game for so many reasons.
02:22If you want that answer from me again, I've said it before we went,
02:25nobody is comfortable with what we decided to play this game together.
02:29That's why there's a unique and a new balance in the situation
02:33that we are trying to tackle the best way we can at the moment.
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