Allianz

[Main Street]

https://www.irishnews.com/opinion/patrick-murphy-im-ashamed-to-be-a-member-of-the-gaa-NL6L6HBRFRCV7MFAKV2XRGSVJE/

I don't know how to post a picture here. I read it in the paper I bought...
Maybe you can read that above..

https://www.irishnews.com/opinion/patrick-murphy-im-ashamed-to-be-a-member-of-the-gaa-NL6L6HBRFRCV7MFAKV2XRGSVJE/

I don't know how to post a picture here. I read it in the paper I bought...
Maybe you can read that above..

Do you know Patrick personally?

Character assassination incoming?...

He's a twat.. so there's that

As usual you play the man not the ball... what has he said there that's not true?

I didn't say or read what he said.. I just know he is a twat.

I'm against any involvement of those in supporting Israel..

But, you have used many things that have an Israeli stamp on it, many many times and continue to do so. So there's that also

ffs

I assume he's against the associations links with them.

None of that takes away from what I said. The guy is a twat, not for what he writes in a column in a paper.

Is that better? 

I'll take your word for it 😆
Very comprehensive column about the topic all the same.

He is ashamed about being a member of the the GAA, so has he resigned his membership of his local GAA club?
has he stood in front of his local membership and explained why he's ripping up his virtual membership card presumably without claims for compensation for unused subscription? It follows that he shuns any support from himself or others for the GAA activities of his local club because of the Allianz sponsorship of the GAA.
As it so happens Allianz sold a controlling stake in Russian business to local entities after the Russian full scale invasion of Ukraine Feb 2022 and took a (relatively small) hit of Eur200m.

Re Palestine
Insurance companies Allianz and Aviva have reportedly ended their coverage of Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit Systems, according to campaigners.

Pro-Palestine activists said on Tuesday that the two insurers no longer provide policies to Elbit Systems following months of direct action and protests. The campaign was initially organised by the group Palestine Action in October 2024, before it was proscribed as a terrorist group in July.

Are you for real on the British government proscribing Palestine Action? A government that is up to its neck in supporting genocide and has an appaling human rights record including here in Ireland. I knew straight away where you are from with that statement.
 The main issues re Allianz:
- Investment in Elbit and 14 other defence companies complicit in the genocide. Increased investments (almost doubled) in 2024.
- ⁠Allianz = Largest private investor in Israeli war bonds since October 2023.

Yes I am for real, what part of this statement do you dispute? 'Pro-Palestine activists said on Tuesday (Dec 24th) that the two insurers no longer provide policies to Elbit Systems following months of direct action and protests.'

Middle East Eye Israel's Genocide in Gaza.

[Truthsayer]

https://www.irishnews.com/opinion/patrick-murphy-im-ashamed-to-be-a-member-of-the-gaa-NL6L6HBRFRCV7MFAKV2XRGSVJE/

I don't know how to post a picture here. I read it in the paper I bought...
Maybe you can read that above..

https://www.irishnews.com/opinion/patrick-murphy-im-ashamed-to-be-a-member-of-the-gaa-NL6L6HBRFRCV7MFAKV2XRGSVJE/

I don't know how to post a picture here. I read it in the paper I bought...
Maybe you can read that above..

Do you know Patrick personally?

Character assassination incoming?...

He's a twat.. so there's that

As usual you play the man not the ball... what has he said there that's not true?

I didn't say or read what he said.. I just know he is a twat.

I'm against any involvement of those in supporting Israel..

But, you have used many things that have an Israeli stamp on it, many many times and continue to do so. So there's that also

ffs

I assume he's against the associations links with them.

None of that takes away from what I said. The guy is a twat, not for what he writes in a column in a paper.

Is that better? 

I'll take your word for it 😆
Very comprehensive column about the topic all the same.

He is ashamed about being a member of the the GAA, so has he resigned his membership of his local GAA club?
has he stood in front of his local membership and explained why he's ripping up his virtual membership card presumably without claims for compensation for unused subscription? It follows that he shuns any support from himself or others for the GAA activities of his local club because of the Allianz sponsorship of the GAA.
As it so happens Allianz sold a controlling stake in Russian business to local entities after the Russian full scale invasion of Ukraine Feb 2022 and took a (relatively small) hit of Eur200m.

Re Palestine
Insurance companies Allianz and Aviva have reportedly ended their coverage of Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit Systems, according to campaigners.

Pro-Palestine activists said on Tuesday that the two insurers no longer provide policies to Elbit Systems following months of direct action and protests. The campaign was initially organised by the group Palestine Action in October 2024, before it was proscribed as a terrorist group in July.

Are you for real on the British government proscribing Palestine Action? A government that is up to its neck in supporting genocide and has an appaling human rights record including here in Ireland. I knew straight away where you are from with that statement.
 The main issues re Allianz:
- Investment in Elbit and 14 other defence companies complicit in the genocide. Increased investments (almost doubled) in 2024.
- ⁠Allianz = Largest private investor in Israeli war bonds since October 2023.

Yes I am for real, what part of this statement do you dispute? 'Pro-Palestine activists said on Tuesday (Dec 24th) that the two insurers no longer provide policies to Elbit Systems following months of direct action and protests.'

Middle East Eye Israel's Genocide in Gaza.

Read the press.. keep up. Is loads of evidence of Allianz complicity.

Allianz invests in ThyssenKrupp, a German company. Out of the top 4 global insurers, only Allianz and Aviva were still investing in this company by Feb. 2025. Allianz was by far the largest investor at $13,900,000.

In spite of an appeal by UN experts for the Germany company to cease the transfer of arms to Israel, it took cover under German domestic law.

In November 2024, Oliver Burkhard, CEO of ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems, emphasized the significance of the event: "With Israel, we share a long-standing partnership built on trust and mutual respect." Guests from Germany and Israel attended the ceremony to launch a state of the art AIP submarine for the IOF, "further symbolizing the close ties between the two nations."

In June 2025, Norway's biggest pension fund, KLP, dropped Germany's ThyssenKrupp from its investment portfolio for selling weapons and equipment used by Israel's military in Gaza.

"Companies have an independent duty to exercise due diligence in order to avoid complicity in violations of fundamental human rights and humanitarian law," Kiran Aziz, head of responsible investments at KLP Asset Management, said in a statement.

"Sale of weapons to states in armed conflicts that use the weapons in ways that represent serious and systematic breaches of international law governing the conflicts."

KLP sold its investment in ThyssenKrupp worth 10 million kroner. That's what an ethical business decision looks like.

#dropallianz #Congress2026

[Main Street]

https://www.irishnews.com/opinion/patrick-murphy-im-ashamed-to-be-a-member-of-the-gaa-NL6L6HBRFRCV7MFAKV2XRGSVJE/

I don't know how to post a picture here. I read it in the paper I bought...
Maybe you can read that above..

https://www.irishnews.com/opinion/patrick-murphy-im-ashamed-to-be-a-member-of-the-gaa-NL6L6HBRFRCV7MFAKV2XRGSVJE/

I don't know how to post a picture here. I read it in the paper I bought...
Maybe you can read that above..

Do you know Patrick personally?

Character assassination incoming?...

He's a twat.. so there's that

As usual you play the man not the ball... what has he said there that's not true?

I didn't say or read what he said.. I just know he is a twat.

I'm against any involvement of those in supporting Israel..

But, you have used many things that have an Israeli stamp on it, many many times and continue to do so. So there's that also

ffs

I assume he's against the associations links with them.

None of that takes away from what I said. The guy is a twat, not for what he writes in a column in a paper.

Is that better? 

I'll take your word for it 😆
Very comprehensive column about the topic all the same.

He is ashamed about being a member of the the GAA, so has he resigned his membership of his local GAA club?
has he stood in front of his local membership and explained why he's ripping up his virtual membership card presumably without claims for compensation for unused subscription? It follows that he shuns any support from himself or others for the GAA activities of his local club because of the Allianz sponsorship of the GAA.
As it so happens Allianz sold a controlling stake in Russian business to local entities after the Russian full scale invasion of Ukraine Feb 2022 and took a (relatively small) hit of Eur200m.

Re Palestine
Insurance companies Allianz and Aviva have reportedly ended their coverage of Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit Systems, according to campaigners.

Pro-Palestine activists said on Tuesday that the two insurers no longer provide policies to Elbit Systems following months of direct action and protests. The campaign was initially organised by the group Palestine Action in October 2024, before it was proscribed as a terrorist group in July.

Are you for real on the British government proscribing Palestine Action? A government that is up to its neck in supporting genocide and has an appaling human rights record including here in Ireland. I knew straight away where you are from with that statement.
 The main issues re Allianz:
- Investment in Elbit and 14 other defence companies complicit in the genocide. Increased investments (almost doubled) in 2024.
- ⁠Allianz = Largest private investor in Israeli war bonds since October 2023.

Yes I am for real, what part of this statement do you dispute? 'Pro-Palestine activists said on Tuesday (Dec 24th) that the two insurers no longer provide policies to Elbit Systems following months of direct action and protests.'

Middle East Eye Israel's Genocide in Gaza.

Read the press.. keep up. Is loads of evidence of Allianz complicity.

Allianz invests in ThyssenKrupp, a German company. Out of the top 4 global insurers, only Allianz and Aviva were still investing in this company by Feb. 2025. Allianz was by far the largest investor at $13,900,000.

In spite of an appeal by UN experts for the Germany company to cease the transfer of arms to Israel, it took cover under German domestic law.

In November 2024, Oliver Burkhard, CEO of ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems, emphasized the significance of the event: "With Israel, we share a long-standing partnership built on trust and mutual respect." Guests from Germany and Israel attended the ceremony to launch a state of the art AIP submarine for the IOF, "further symbolizing the close ties between the two nations."

In June 2025, Norway's biggest pension fund, KLP, dropped Germany's ThyssenKrupp from its investment portfolio for selling weapons and equipment used by Israel's military in Gaza.

"Companies have an independent duty to exercise due diligence in order to avoid complicity in violations of fundamental human rights and humanitarian law," Kiran Aziz, head of responsible investments at KLP Asset Management, said in a statement.

"Sale of weapons to states in armed conflicts that use the weapons in ways that represent serious and systematic breaches of international law governing the conflicts."

KLP sold its investment in ThyssenKrupp worth 10 million kroner. That's what an ethical business decision looks like.

#dropallianz #Congress2026

Are you the most thick GAA board member?
An absolute  moron?
Perhaps that accolade is not in dispute as in there is no question.

From December 24th
 'Pro-Palestine activists said on Tuesday (Dec 24th) that the two insurers no longer provide policies to Elbit Systems following months of direct action and protests.'

[Truthsayer]

Mr/Mrs/Ms Main Street:
I'll tell you what I'll do... I'll tell Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur and leading barrister Nodlaig Brolly, Dr David Hickey and Colm O'Rourke and Brendan Devenny and Damian O'Hagan and Pascal Canavan and nine GAA county boards and a raft of newspaper columnists (including Patrick Kelly, Kenny Archer and Cahair O'Kane) and many more to withdraw their objections and call off protests to Congress because there's a boy or girl? on a discussion board called Main Street or lives on Main Street says the case is now defunct and he comes back a week later very cross with personal insults and information that he has no source for calling names and defending Allianz. Maybe he works for them or a complicit multinational in the 26! Me thinks he doth protest too much.

[Baile Brigín 2]

Mr/Mrs/Ms Main Street:
I'll tell you what I'll do... I'll tell Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur and leading barrister Nodlaig Brolly, Dr David Hickey and Colm O'Rourke and Brendan Devenny and Damian O'Hagan and Pascal Canavan and nine GAA county boards and a raft of newspaper columnists (including Patrick Kelly, Kenny Archer and Cahair O'Kane) and many more to withdraw their objections and call off protests to Congress because there's a boy or girl? on a discussion board called Main Street or lives on Main Street says the case is now defunct and he comes back a week later very cross with personal insults and information that he has no source for calling names and defending Allianz. Maybe he works for them or a complicit multinational in the 26! Me thinks he doth protest too much.

It's actually worse. None of them defended Allianz on here until the blazers decided what they decided. Then, and only then, did their defence begin. It isn't about protesting. It's the behaviour of lickspittles and toadies.

[Truthsayer]

Mr/Mrs/Ms Main Street:
I'll tell you what I'll do... I'll tell Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur and leading barrister Nodlaig Brolly, Dr David Hickey and Colm O'Rourke and Brendan Devenny and Damian O'Hagan and Pascal Canavan and nine GAA county boards and a raft of newspaper columnists (including Patrick Kelly, Kenny Archer and Cahair O'Kane) and many more to withdraw their objections and call off protests to Congress because there's a boy or girl? on a discussion board called Main Street or lives on Main Street says the case is now defunct and he comes back a week later very cross with personal insults and information that he has no source for calling names and defending Allianz. Maybe he works for them or a complicit multinational in the 26! Me thinks he doth protest too much.

It's actually worse. None of them defended Allianz on here until the blazers decided what they decided. Then, and only then, did their defence begin. It isn't about protesting. It's the behaviour of lickspittles and toadies.

👍 Exactly that: lickspittles.

[Truthsayer]

GPA considering the issue of Allianz.. be interesting to see their response.

"Cork icons Jimmy Barry Murphy and Dr Con Murphy, Down's Colm McAlarney, Kerry's first Allstar, Donie O'Sullivan, Tyrone's Damian O'Hagan, and Dublin footballers past and present, Dr David Hickey and David Byrne, have all backed the detailed call for an end to the GAA-Allianz relationship.

Derry camogie captain Aoife Ni Chaiside and former Donegal footballer Brendan Devenney are also leading lights in the human rights advocacy group.

Its chair, Michael Doherty has said that the GAA's decision to continue its sponsorship and insurance contracts with Allianz "cannot be justified at this critical moment for international law, peace, and human rights.

The human rights advocacy group has contacted the Gaelic Players Association asking it to circulate to all its members the document outlining opposition to the GAA's ongoing involvements with Allianz Ireland.

The GAA re-iterated that the EIC report will be published but has not confirmed when that will occur.

However, Gaels against Genocide in Gaza chair Doherty, in his email to GPA chief executive Tom Parsons, stated:

"It is not an acceptable explanation and the decision cannot be justified at this critical moment for international law, peace and human rights.

"In accordance with its values and ethos, the GAA should be a humanitarian organisation, independent of the State and consistent in its compliance with international law."

The GPA discusses all issues arising from GAA Management Committee and Central Council meetings as a matter of course, and its executive will consider the GAA's decision relating to the EIC report.

Gaels against Genocide in Gaza initiated their 'Drop Allianz' campaign in June 2025, as a humanitarian campaign aimed at ensuring compliance with international law in this time of genocide.

They organised a petition that was signed by almost 800 inter-county players, past and present and handed into the Croke Park Executive last August.

[Rossfan]

Saval Club calling for Down to not play NFL/NHL games if Allianz remain as sponsors.

[Armagh18]

Saval Club calling for Down to not play NFL/NHL games if Allianz remain as sponsors.

Fair play.

[Milltown Row2]

Probably come down to player power rather than what the Counties want..

If there is enough will out there then it'll happen

There will be ramifications for the counties but if the majority go with it then it will have to be revisited again..

Croke will have a huge headache if there are other implications like breach of contracts, these will of course have knock on effects further down the road

[seafoid]

Motion to withdraw Down from National Leagues in protest of Allianz sponsorship to go before county committee
https://x.com/irish_news/status/2009308112700748171

[snoopdog]

Motion to withdraw Down from National Leagues in protest of Allianz sponsorship to go before county committee
https://x.com/irish_news/status/2009308112700748171

An absolute nonsense by the Saval club.
Players wont commit to play Tailteann Cup. Do these clowns think these things through.
No one disputes the attrocities in Gaza. But Down withdrawing their Teams is going to achieve what exactly.
Hopefully common sense will prevail.

[Armagh18]

If every club and then county did the same the GAA would have to act, fair play to Saval.

[thewobbler]

If every club and then county did the same the GAA would have to act, fair play to Saval.

But they won't. Because when push comes to shove we don't go to national league games because of Allianz. We don't refer to it as the "Allianz" (a la Heineken Cup). It's a football /hurling league. Pulling out of it because of a sponsor is somewhere in between self flagellation and virtue signalling. Only yourself suffers.

[bennydorano]

With the voting manoeuvres that can be pulled at county board meetings/ conventions need to be careful. People get carried away and vote with their emotions and Down withdraw from the NFL - to be followed by absolutely no one.

I could see some games being interrupted by fleggers