'We're calling on the GAA to drop Allianz' - say Mayo protesters outside of MacHale Park

A protest was held outside Hastings Insurance MacHale Park, ahead of the Allianz Football League clash between Mayo and Dublin.

"We're highlighting why Allianz are in the spotlight at the moment for all the wrong reasons," says Aoife Durkan from the Mayo branch of the Ireland-Palestinian Solidarity Campaign, speaking to The Mayo News. 

"We're calling on the GAA to drop Allianz. Allianz were complicit in the Holocaust, and now they have been found to be complicit in the genocide of the Palestinian people."

A leaflet handed out claims Allianz are in breach of its own human right commitments, UN Guiding Principles and international law, and also alleges Allianz has directly funded the genocidal Israeli regime through the purchase of so called war bonds.

"Allianz currently hold $7.3 billion in shares and bonds implicated in that genocide," says Swinford woman Durkan. "I believe that's the ultimate transgression."

She explains, how 'Allianz is the title sponsor of our game, so it's very relevant to this situation. And of the league today.'

The protesters outside MacHale Park on Sunday ask GAA supporters to share the "Drop Allianz" campaign on social media and to bring their information to local clubs to be raised at county level.

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