Rob O'Connor. One half of @aerial_ie. Bit of coaching on the side
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Shambles that the players have to make a stand. Left out to dry by their Association.
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Quite incredibly, it appears that this match will not available to view legally in continental Europe.
#ETPL
Meanwhile means the Rotterdam Dockers will have an all-or-nothing situation this afternoon. A win against Dublin sees them through to the final, lose and they'll be eliminated.
#ETPL
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🔴 Day 1,809 since the Taliban closed secondary schools to Afghan girls.
Strong, independent women make a society. Afghanistan will suffer from their ongoing exclusion from public life.
You are not forgotten.
#Afghanistan #LetAfghanGirlsLearn
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In @timessport …
Irish cricket desperate for latest gamble on European T20 league to succeed
thetimes.com/article/702e72c…
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Girls in Afghanistan have been barred from formal education beyond grade six since September 2021, and women from universities since December 2022.
"UNICEF calls on the de facto authorities to lift the restrictions on education and allow all girls and women to return to schools and universities immediately," - @unicefchief
Read more: unicef.link/3TMjEUZ
ALT More than 2.6 million girls in Afghanistan have been denied a secondary education since 2021. Afghanistan remains the only country in the world where secondary and higher education is effectively closed to girls and women.
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Only once or twice a month.
For half of Afghan women, that's how often they leave their homes.
Excluding women and girls in #Afghanistan from public life must NEVER be normalized.
🔗 Five years since the Taliban takeover, learn their realities: unwo.men/EhBx50ZzoXm
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Five years after the Taliban takeover, more than 100 decrees have stripped women and girls in Afghanistan of their rights, freedoms and dignity.
@UN_Women has more on the devastating impacts of the world’s most severe women’s rights crisis: unwomen.org/en/articles/in-f…
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Wearing pink burqas would've shown solidarity. How much did your virtue signalling pink shirts costs? Cricket may be for everyone but it isn't for Afghan women and girls who are prisoners in their own homes.
#DontForgetAfghanWomen
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@RTEsport @rtenews , anything to say about Ireland playing Afghanistan at cricket as if it’s a normal country
#Afghanistan: UN experts warn against the normalization of the Taliban rule, urge states to accelerate steps towards accountability in the face of increasing restrictions imposed on the population, including women and girls, over the past year.
ohchr.org/en/press-releases/…
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Half of Afghan women now leave their homes only once or twice a month as Taliban-imposed restrictions curtail their freedom of movement and participation in public life, according to data released by UN Women rte.ie/news/world/2026/0813/…
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Well done women of @ni_wrn for attending the men’s cricket fixture between Ireland and Afghanistan and raising awareness of the terrible plight of Afghan women. @cricketireland has organised five one-day internationals against the Afghanistan men’s team despite widespread criticism.
While @ECB_cricket has stated it will not arrange unilateral fixtures against Afghanistan and will only play @ICC international tournaments, Ireland has opted to show its support for Afghanistan’s women by kitting its staff out in pink clothing… that’ll show the Taliban what’s what 🤦🏻♀️
Today we respectfully protested the @cricketireland decision to host the Afghanistan Mens Cricket team playing at Stormont.
While handing out leaflets showing the scale of the human rights violations against women, we were thanked for raising awareness by fans of both teams.
Female participation in sport has effectively been outlawed since the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan in 2021.
@WomensRightsNet @WRNAfghanistan and all local groups work to raise awareness of the plight of afghan women who have been erased from public life and suffer horrific abuses.
Afghanistan | Women's Rights Network | UK share.google/017CzQAz5RSdJ62…
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2.4M Afghan girls remain out of school according to UNESCO
Taliban has made the live of girls hell.
Afghanistan is the only country that formally prohibits girls and women from receiving an education beyond the primary level.
#WWENXT
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Today we respectfully protested the @cricketireland decision to host the Afghanistan Mens Cricket team playing at Stormont.
While handing out leaflets showing the scale of the human rights violations against women, we were thanked for raising awareness by fans of both teams.
Female participation in sport has effectively been outlawed since the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan in 2021.
@WomensRightsNet @WRNAfghanistan and all local groups work to raise awareness of the plight of afghan women who have been erased from public life and suffer horrific abuses.
Afghanistan | Women's Rights Network | UK share.google/017CzQAz5RSdJ62…
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Taliban wipes out decades of progress as 2.4M Afghan girls remain locked out of school, UN agency says trib.al/LQiFdLd
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CI should be supporting this. As should most other boards. Only way to fix the game is for the many to challenge the few
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Irony of playing Afghanistan in cricket irishtimes.com/opinion/an-ir…
