'History will judge' - Allianz protests spotted outside Mayo-Armagh League tie

'All it takes for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing.'

That was the message from those on the frontlines of the anti-Allianz protest outside of MacHale Park ahead of the Division One meeting of Mayo and Armagh.

At the Green and Red's game against Dublin and Donegal previously, protestors had gathered by the turnstiles in protest of the insurance company's sponsorship of the National Football and Hurling leagues.

On Saturday, at the GAA Special Congress in Croke Park, former inter-county stars such as Peter Canavan, Colm O'Rourke, and Brendan Devenney joined those voicing their opposition to the deal with the business whose parent company, according to UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese, has links to Israel.

One of the protesters in Castlebar, John McDonagh, spoke vociferously in opposition to the sponsorship.

"The grassroots right from the bottom up are interested in having Allianz removed," he stated. "It is the corporate entity that is Croke Park that are dead set on keeping the Allianz money in the GAA, and we oppose that."

McDonagh was quick to quote one of those inter-county stars, Colm O'Rourke.

"All it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.

"There is a famine of leadership politically through every strata of society, through industry, even religions in their inability to confront what we have seen on our television screens for the last two years.

"A genocide basically being live-streamed, and it is just appalling that the majority, the vast majority, political leadership, leaders in industry, religious, sporting, right across the board, have failed to grasp the nettle and condemn the actions of Israel in Gaza."

The backing of the throngs of people in and around the ground has served as ample motivation for those brandishing placards to keep up their protests.

"The support is huge. We're getting such positive feedback from supporters, gratitude from we've had a load of our supporters who have just come by our protest here, who are 100 per cent behind our protest."