🗣️ “It is a genocide. We cannot normalise it. We shouldn’t be playing games with the Israeli team.”
🗣️ “When those young players needed support, they didn’t get it from the Government.”

🗣️ “It is a genocide. We cannot normalise it. We shouldn’t be playing games with the Israeli team.”
🗣️ “When those young players needed support, they didn’t get it from the Government.”
🗣️ “Under UEFA, if Government interfere in national sporting bodies...it’s a matter for penalties.”
🗣️ “What is a financial sanction against the scenes we’re witnessing?”
The #TonightVMTV panel discuss whether Government should have stepped in on the Ireland-Israel games.
🗣️ “I’ve no doubt in my mind now that certain [FAI] board members need to resign,”
Daniel Ennis TD, on his takeaways from the FAI’s appearance before an Oireachtas committee.
📺 On #TonightVMTV with Shane Coleman:
🚨 A rare result for FAI as execs grilled by an Oireachtas Committee?
🚨 A week from Budget 2027, the panel discusses a deepening cost-of-living crisis.
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🗣️ “The Gardaí have not been able to do this in the past, yet there’s just this recycling of old rhetoric that hasn't worked.”
The #TonightVMTV panel discusses how joyriding can be tackled, following the Virgin Media News documentary 'Joyriders: Ireland’s Lucky Dip Gang'.
🗣️ “In the past, too many nationalist communities have endured oppression and repression of the police in the six counties - and they were left on their own,”
Matt Carthy TD on why he and First Minister Michelle O’Neill joined the Garvaghy Road protest.
🗣️ “There doesn’t seem to have been dialogue with the local community - and surely that is a key part of reconciliation,”
Martina Devlin on the Garvaghy Road impasse and her hope for international mediation to find a solution.
🗣️ “We do know why they [Orange Order] want to march down the Garvaghy Road...they want a return to supremacy,”
Matt Carthy TD on the Garvaghy Road impasse in Portadown and his views on why the Orange Order are determined to march.
🗣️ “It’s going to take smart investment and a redirection of policy away from increasing prison sentences - because we know prison does not work,”
Robert Cullen on whether he is hopeful young offenders can be brought back from a life of criminality.
🗣️ “That is evidence that it does not work and we need to do something else, and that the Gardaí are incapable of addressing this problem.”
🗣️ “We need help from the parents and society as a whole,”
🗣️ “We can’t always lay the blame at the State, or for An Garda Síochána to deal with these things. This starts at home,”
John Joe O’Connell, Vice President, GRA.
🗣️ “The Gardaí have not been able to do this in the past, yet there’s just this recycling of old rhetoric that hasn't worked,”
Robert Cullen, Criminologist and Former Prisoner, on suggestions of how to tackle joyriding amongst teenagers.
🗣️ “We don’t have adequate youth intervention,” says Matt Carthy TD, Spokesperson on Justice, Sinn Féin, following the Virgin Media News documentary 'Joyriders: Ireland’s Lucky Dip Gang'.
🗣️ “Talking about early intervention doesn’t make anyone driving down the M7 tonight feel any safer,” says Barry Ward TD, Fine Gael.
📺 On #TonightVMTV
🚨 Following 'Joyriders: Ireland's Lucky Dip Gang', the panel explores gang terror, the M9 crash & joyriding teens.
🚨 Garvaghy Road: What will break the impasse?
🚨 Man City's decade of deception as they are found guilty on all charges.
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🗣️ “It would allow us to stand tall, to be proud, and to know that we are doing the right thing in the face of genocide.”
The #TonightVMTV panel discussed whether an Irish boycott of Sunday’s Ireland v Israel match would have any impact.
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🗣️ “Why are you showing these videos to people at all?”
Social Democrats TD Sinéad Gibney questions TikTok’s approach to dangerous content online.
TikTok told an Oireachtas committee it identified 1,600 reckless driving videos since last month’s fatal M9 crash.
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- Social media firms grilled over dangerous driving videos.
- AI Minister rejects claims Ireland helped draft plans to weaken GDPR protections.
- And Taoiseach meets Mamdani to strengthen Irish-American ties.
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Micheal Martin plays bingo with Zohran Mamdani