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Emirates has put off plans for a third Dublin-Dubai flight due to some 'pain points'

The Gulf airline put the extra service on ice due to ‘infrastructural issues’.

GULF AIRLINE EMIRATES considered launching a third daily flight from Dublin to Dubai, but shelved the plan for this year due to infrastructural issues at Ireland’s busiest airport.

Emirates country manager for Ireland, Enda Corneille, said the airline put the third daily service on ice due to a number of “pain points”.

Corneille, who was speaking at a review of Emirate’s business in Ireland, noted that Dublin Airport has experienced “unprecedented growth” in recent years, nearly hitting the 30 million-passenger mark in 2017. It is expected to grow passenger numbers again this year.

“The challenge for Emirates is that we’re operating in Terminal 2. We believe Terminal 2 is utterly conducive to our product. Our customers like it as well, but it’s a busy place,” he said.

Corneille said passenger movement through US customs pre-clearance facilities has been sluggish, but added: “We believe that can be sorted through more intensive security technology to smooth people through.”

Another problem is congestion on Dublin’s runway from 6am to 7.30am, when short-haul carriers scramble to get their first wave of scheduled flights in the air so they can run operations smoothly throughout the day.

“The third flight that we were looking to bring in would have probably run up against the busiest time being early morning,” Corneille said.

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Although Dublin Airport’s second runway – slated for completion in 2021 – will provide some relief on the early morning rush, Corneille said it “in turn is going to increase the demand on check in and boarding” at the existing facilities.

“On that basis, we’ve always believed that a third terminal is a natural consequence of the second runway,” he said.

However, DAA chief Dalton Philips recently said there’s no need for a third terminal until the hub surpasses the 55 million-passenger mark, which will take more than two decades to achieve.

Corneille questioned whether there is sufficient real estate to expand the existing terminals to handle a near doubling of passengers over the coming years.

“I’ve heard the 55 million (passenger) figure. It’s a testament to the economy, but it won’t be a pleasant experience unless proper facilities and infrastructure are put in place,” he said.

Corneille said Emirates has a “terrific relationship” with Dublin Airport and wants to work with the hub to “see how we can build a path for growth”.

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During the briefing, Corneille suggested that Emirates would next year reconsider the possibility of increasing the Dublin-Dubai service to three-times daily.

When asked by Fora what would need to happen between now and then to make that possible, Corneille replied: “It’s not simply a decision based on the infrastructure. We would have to be comfortable that that operation has to be a success.

“The business environment this year and next could be very different. You could have more carriers coming into Dublin, which will make the already scarce resources even more scarce … You could have airlines pulling out of Dublin, that could free up space.

“You have to play with the cards we’ve been dealt,” he said.

Honeymoon market

Emirates launched operations in Ireland in January 2012. It employs 600 Irish people across its network with plans to hire 150 more this year.

Corneille said the double daily service to Dubai is profitable for the United Arab Emirates-headquartered airline, which recently reported a net profit of $762 million.

He said the route carries up to 22,000 passengers each month and load factor - an aviation metric measuring the number of seats filled on a flight – is about 80%. Emirates hopes to grow that figure to 85% this year and advance bookings are ahead of last year.

Corneille – who is responsible for growing both inbound and outbound traffic on the Dublin-Dubai service – said a recent decision to waiver visa requirements for United Arab Emirates visitors to Ireland is “one of the biggest developments” for the local tourism industry.

He also noted that the carrier has spotted a pick up in bookings from couples going on their honeymoon from Ireland.

“From conversations with local tour operators, the honeymoon market we’re finding used to be something that was bought by the couple with whatever money was left over (after the wedding).

“Now the honeymoon is one of the first things that’s selected. We see huge demand into the Seychelles and Mauritius, which has come back after the tragedy a number of years ago,” Corneille said, referring to the high-profile murder of Michaela McAreavey.

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    Mute nollaig o cellaigh
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    Sep 9th 2024, 3:33 PM

    Hold on it went both ways

    The English fans booed our anthem

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    Sep 9th 2024, 3:53 PM

    @nollaig o cellaigh: And he said so: “They should respect our anthem”.

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    Sep 9th 2024, 4:00 PM

    @nollaig o cellaigh: two wrongs don’t make a right. Everyone knows English fans are one of the worst in the world. There should be no need for Irish fans to reduce themselves to their level.

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    Sep 9th 2024, 4:24 PM

    @nollaig o cellaigh: Hard to take any of this serious when our own dyed in the green wool, gaelic warriors can’t stand still to the end of their own national anthem and the watching crowd interuptes 10 seconds from the end every time.

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    Sep 9th 2024, 5:33 PM

    @Stanley Marsh: it’s tradition. All those who can’t sing it, wait for the cheer at (nearly) the end of it.
    I think some Tipperary lad shouted at the ref once : throw in the f****ng ball and get out of the f****ng way.

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    Sep 9th 2024, 8:36 PM

    @nollaig o cellaigh: Yeah but don’t mind that. Let some of their fans show themselves up as yobs or whatever. Thats their problem. Booing another anthem is just pathetic and shows a lack of intelligence. On the field is where you are supposed to stick it to them but we were well outclassed unfortunately.

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    Sep 10th 2024, 3:40 PM

    @nollaig o cellaigh: no they didnt. I was there. It was embarrassing

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    Sep 10th 2024, 3:41 PM

    @yourname: irish are worse now

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    Sep 9th 2024, 3:29 PM

    Soccer yobs….to be expected.

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    Sep 9th 2024, 3:52 PM

    @Padraic Burke: Typical D4, rugger loving, heino drinking, ignorant view…to be expected.

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    Sep 9th 2024, 4:04 PM

    @Stephen Heffernan: he’s not wrong though.

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    Sep 9th 2024, 4:27 PM

    @Stephen Heffernan: he’s spot on though

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    Sep 9th 2024, 4:52 PM

    @Padraic Burke: Egg chaser no doubt!

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    Sep 9th 2024, 5:03 PM

    @reg morrisey: check out GAA matches. The abuse of opposition, the booing, catcalling unparalleled.

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    @damien leen: The rugger lads have worse problems, mainly with consent

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    Sep 9th 2024, 7:39 PM

    @Alan: Quick look ! over there at them -> look at them..not here

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    Sep 9th 2024, 7:51 PM

    @Stephen Heffernan: He’s had to contradict though ,but by all means the floor is yours.

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    Sep 10th 2024, 9:50 AM

    @Stephen Heffernan: Typical soccer yob comment.

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    Sep 9th 2024, 4:05 PM

    Might I suggest Mr Martin and his colleagues focus on respecting the Irish people and their needs?

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    Sep 9th 2024, 6:07 PM

    @Athena: and so say all of us

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    Sep 9th 2024, 3:41 PM

    Nothing to do with martin. Especially with his history which he likes to forget

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    Sep 9th 2024, 4:04 PM

    @Seamus Flynn: its everything to do with him and every other person on this island.

    People should have some respect on both sides.

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    Sep 9th 2024, 4:05 PM

    @Seamus Flynn: as the Tanaiste he represents the country, so I think it does. What’s his history?

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    Sep 9th 2024, 6:14 PM

    @Seamus Flynn: He doesn’t like forget it, he likes to white wash it, the Tan and the British army were actually the good guys and we should have appreciated and been a subservient people

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    Sep 9th 2024, 3:30 PM

    There’s always been a difference between the rugby supporters and the soccer fans…

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    Sep 9th 2024, 3:36 PM

    @St. Mary’s Special School: People who follow rugby don’t even know the rules

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    Sep 9th 2024, 3:49 PM

    @St. Mary’s Special School: not everyone who follows soccer is a thug. You shouldn’t paint everyone with the same brush

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    Sep 9th 2024, 4:16 PM

    @gav0kelly: Laws.

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    @gav0kelly: speak for yourself only gav

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    Sep 9th 2024, 4:28 PM

    @St. Mary’s Special School: education mostly.

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    Sep 9th 2024, 4:28 PM

    @Jb Walshe: I follow it , but I definitely know more about the rules than all the bandwagon supporters

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    Sep 9th 2024, 4:32 PM

    @gav0kelly: I don’t follow it*

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    Sep 9th 2024, 4:37 PM

    @gav0kelly: no rules in rugby, we have laws in rugby…

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    Sep 9th 2024, 5:45 PM

    @St. Mary’s Special School: yeah, the rugby crowd spend their time in the bar, going to the bar or coming from the bar. More atmosphere on the moon than at a rugby match. Plus they sing Irelands Call, a song which makes God Save The King sound like high art.

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    Sep 9th 2024, 7:53 PM

    @St. Mary’s Special School: Around 100k a year .

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    Sep 10th 2024, 3:43 PM

    @St. Mary’s Special School: 1 has a brain, the other 2 rectums

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    Sep 9th 2024, 3:35 PM

    It is not a good idea to tell a person who they should respect. One should have the right not to respect someone you do not respect. Having said that you can show your disrespect respectfully

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    Sep 9th 2024, 3:42 PM

    @Oh Mammy: A national anthem is not a person.

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    Sep 9th 2024, 3:58 PM

    @Brendan O’Brien: you are a bell end. I will not respect something solely on the basis you present. Mind your own business.

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    @Oh Mammy: you’ve taken this from Waterford whispers…I hope

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    Sep 9th 2024, 4:07 PM

    @yourname: I will not be told who to respect.

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    @Oh Mammy: you go girl

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    Sep 10th 2024, 3:49 PM

    @Oh Mammy: You do like the word respect tbh

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    Sep 9th 2024, 3:42 PM

    It’s called class. Football fans in every country around the globe find it difficult to show respect for their opponent’s anthem.
    Fortunately, it’s quite rare in rugby and you only have to go back to that famous match in the early 70s when England came to play rugby whilst Scotland and Wales stayed home.We gave the boys in white a rousing welcome.
    Then we beat them!

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    Sep 9th 2024, 3:52 PM

    @Ian Forbes: your perception is one of a brush with a broad stroke
    Not all of us are thugs. In fact the majority aren’t. People who stereotype all football fans and look down their nose at people they don’t know based on incidents from minorities aren’t exactly somebody to aspire to be like either

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    Sep 9th 2024, 3:56 PM

    @Ian Forbes: The captain (Pullman?) said in his speech at the post-match dinner (ah, those were the days!) “We may not be very good, but at least we turn up!” English Rugby has been respected here ever since that day.

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    Sep 9th 2024, 4:51 PM

    @Ian Forbes: I will always have great respect for the English who made the trip that year. The Welsh and Scots were too afraid :D

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    Sep 9th 2024, 7:14 PM

    @Sean O’Dhubhghaill: Has it? , I would disagree

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    Sep 9th 2024, 4:09 PM

    Westbrit

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    @qffaffaf affrafrfraf: He’s Welsh, I didn’t know that.

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    Sep 9th 2024, 3:40 PM

    Sure even the English manager wouldnt sing that tripe

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    Sep 9th 2024, 5:04 PM

    I think people have long since given up on what the likes of mehole has to say

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    Sep 9th 2024, 6:08 PM

    @David Bergin: Talking through your rear end again.

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    Sep 9th 2024, 7:42 PM

    @David Bergin: you’re right – you talk a lot of shïte alright

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    Sep 10th 2024, 10:13 AM

    @UK Hurling Bloke: He is right though, not a word out of his gob can you believe.

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    Sep 9th 2024, 4:27 PM

    It was embarrassing and cringe that they booed their national anthem.doesnt matter if english fans booed ours everyone knows they are low life yobs, there was no need to copy them..anyone who booed their national anthem should be embarrassed with themselves they let the country down.

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    Sep 9th 2024, 4:07 PM

    I fully agree with Micheal on this

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    Sep 10th 2024, 2:22 PM

    @Fintan Pox: who cares

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    Sep 9th 2024, 5:50 PM

    FF is turned into a very dark shade of blue

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    Sep 9th 2024, 4:24 PM

    Does this happen at international rugby matches?? I don’t think so,

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    @Ned: No passion from the west brits at games

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    Sep 9th 2024, 5:37 PM

    Micheál Martin, leader of FF the sleeveen Nato party, is embarrassed by anything that might upset his chums.

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    Sep 9th 2024, 4:34 PM

    Wouldn’t sing any Colonial anthem.

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    Sep 9th 2024, 3:47 PM

    No anthem no problem …. Get rid of it. What happens on the pitch is all that matters.

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    Sep 9th 2024, 4:06 PM

    @Peter B (V Eight): or simplier still, people could have some respect.

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    Sep 9th 2024, 4:33 PM

    The english at the euros were a disgrace they booed every one else.s anthem they have some neck givibg out !! Good enuff for them they hate payback !

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    Sep 9th 2024, 4:35 PM

    Stating the obvious but it’s not 2007 anymore. Hate, being amplified online leads to this kind of behaviour.
    It’s such a pity to see this when respect and maturity were shown in Croke Park back then considering the terrible history in that place.

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    Sep 9th 2024, 4:20 PM

    Nope, they boo our and indeed pretty much every national anthem. Not showing any respect for them. Wasn’t at the match in fairness but I’d have boo’d if I was

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    Sep 9th 2024, 3:48 PM

    It was a disgrace from the Irish. They were lucky not have the place smashed up again,.antagonising the English.

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    Sep 9th 2024, 3:49 PM

    @Basildon Joe: That’s some quality trolling.

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    Sep 9th 2024, 3:51 PM

    @Brendan O’Brien: sore loser

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    Sep 9th 2024, 3:55 PM

    @Basildon Joe: I think you lost this exchange.

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    Sep 9th 2024, 4:01 PM

    @Brendan O’Brien: I think you should stop following me around here like a bad smell that you are.

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    Sep 9th 2024, 5:33 PM

    Why should we do what mehole says another way of trying to bully people

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    Sep 9th 2024, 6:11 PM

    @Noel: I definitely wouldn’t do what your rear end says.

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    Sep 9th 2024, 8:52 PM

    Booing and roaring at Rice and Grealish too with their Arsenal and City tops in the wash baskets at home.

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    Sep 10th 2024, 3:48 PM

    @biggybald: exactly. They are hypocrite pea brains

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    Sep 9th 2024, 9:35 PM

    Almost 800 years of trying to stamp out IRISH identity and culture and that sap apologizes for the Irish fans/people having a problem with having to listen and/or respect their war song ?????????????

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    Sep 9th 2024, 10:49 PM

    @Michael James Brennan: The irony – complaining about 800 years of oppression and then justifying freely aping the obnoxious behaviour of the said oppressor.

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    Sep 10th 2024, 3:47 PM

    @Michael James Brennan: get over it, dinosaur

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    Sep 9th 2024, 7:37 PM

    How about some respect for the irish taxpayers who keep the refugees and the Ukrainian people with roofs over their head.

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    Sep 9th 2024, 4:37 PM

    Expect nothing better from soccer. Ban the hateful game.

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    Sep 9th 2024, 6:32 PM

    @ian: Sap

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    Sep 9th 2024, 4:31 PM

    Tanaiste should respect England’s report on Grenfel fire!

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    Sep 9th 2024, 4:20 PM

    Bate em with batons like the last time they wrecked the place

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    Sep 9th 2024, 4:13 PM

    I’d respect the British anthem more if they changed it to “Hey God, why didn’t you save our Queen”

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    Sep 9th 2024, 4:55 PM

    Booing is deplorable and puerile, but it is ubiquitous in football ( soccer). It is all part of the tribalism and confrontationalism that tarnishes the game worldwide. To give one example, it does not occur in Rugby Union. I won’t repeat what Oscar Wilde said about soccer and rugby, respectively!!

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    Sep 9th 2024, 5:36 PM

    @James Hanley: Oscar who ?

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    Mute Fintan Pox
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    Sep 9th 2024, 4:10 PM

    It’s to be expected of the Irish knuckle draggers

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    Sep 9th 2024, 4:56 PM

    The truth no one in Europe wants anymore Irish tourists, as they bring the same level of rudeness as happened on Saturday.

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    Sep 9th 2024, 7:16 PM

    @Chris: Are you high?

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    Mute Hector turtlehead
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    Sep 10th 2024, 3:46 PM

    @Chris: some truth there. Irish are turning into the new brits abroad

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    Mute Ned Tallywhacker
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    Sep 9th 2024, 3:50 PM

    And the English singing f*** the Was okay? Or should we all sing that together too?

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    Sep 9th 2024, 4:22 PM

    I’m glad England beat us

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    Sep 9th 2024, 5:25 PM

    @Fintan Pox: You really are very needy are you? Sad attempts at trolling

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    Mute Glen Kelly
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    Sep 9th 2024, 3:59 PM

    The English fa asked the English supporters not to sing anything about the ira .and what did they in the avia NO SURRENDER TO THE IRA .PEOPLE HAVE MOVED ON MORONS

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    Mute Basildon Joe
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    Sep 9th 2024, 4:02 PM

    @Glen Kelly: I did not hear this chant. There were no English hooligans in attendance, only crusty scarfers.

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    Sep 9th 2024, 4:22 PM

    @Basildon Joe: I was at the match and they were singing it .I don’t know what heard .

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    Sep 9th 2024, 5:59 PM

    @Glen Kelly: I definitely didn’t hear it but I watched it on TV

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    Sep 9th 2024, 6:33 PM

    @Basildon Joe: well I think you need hearing aid they definitely sang it .I was right there .

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    Mute Gerry Lynch
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    Sep 9th 2024, 11:24 PM

    up the Ra

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    Mute Sickof thisshit
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    Sep 9th 2024, 7:30 PM

    Only degenerates on both sides booing.

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    Mute RIP
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    Sep 9th 2024, 5:52 PM

    Totally agree

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    Mute Gavin Gray
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    Sep 9th 2024, 4:23 PM

    lol

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    Mute Ewan O'Doherty
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    Sep 9th 2024, 10:44 PM

    That happened on both sides, when the opponents’ national anthems were being played and sung.
    Not very mature behaviour if I may say so

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    Mute Paul
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    Sep 9th 2024, 9:21 PM

    Racist Irish football fans…and plenty of them.

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    Mute John O Reilly
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    Sep 9th 2024, 6:33 PM

    I dont sing anthems because i can’t sing

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    Sep 10th 2024, 11:18 AM

    Respect is earned.

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    Mute Sergio Reddan
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    Sep 10th 2024, 10:48 AM

    It’ll always be god save the queen for me

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    Mute Fergus O'Donnell
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    Sep 10th 2024, 1:41 AM

    Chavball strikes again.

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    Mute Hector turtlehead
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    Sep 10th 2024, 3:40 PM

    First time I’ve agreed with him.
    It shows the Irish supporters as sad little minded begrudgers

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