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World’s Third largest sporting event to boost Irish football and Irish economy

Proposed that Dublin Arena host six games including Round of 16 and Quarter-Final

Irish football to benefit from €6.2m Legacy Fund

Tournament to act as a catalyst for future facility investment

UEFA EURO 2028 Ireland & UK to inspire a future generation of young players

The Football Association of Ireland welcomes today’s decision by UEFA to award the UEFA EURO 2028 tournament to Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England.

FAI President Gerry McAnaney, Chief Executive Office Jonathan Hill, Chief Operations Officer David Courell and Ireland Football Youth Ambassador Ade Solanke were in Nyon, Switzerland, when UEFA’s ExCo awarded the 2028 European Championship finals to the joint…

A post on Facebook falsely claims that a photo shows a riot taking place near Paris’ Eiffel Tower in recent days. But the photo was actually taken in 2016. 

The photo shows people, many of them with their face covered, at the foot of the Eiffel Tower next to a burning pile of rubbish. 

The post claims that this shows “riots from illegal immigrants right now in France” and says that this is proof that people in the US need guns for protection. 

Riots have broken out across France after a 17-year-old boy, Nahel M, died after being shot by a police officer at a traffic stop in a Paris suburb on 27 June.  

However the photo shared on social media does not show current riots— it comes from an incident in 2016 when football fans clashed with police during the