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There are two reasons for the specific interest in Palestine, according to Findlay. On the one hand it's about supporting a popular left-wing cause – "our stance in general is to support progressive causes, and Palestine is probably one of the longest running" – while on the other it's about a conflict which she says chimes with Ireland's own experience of oppression: "We see them as a dispossessed people, a people who have been shoved off their land, who are locked up, subject to laws that none of the rest of us would like to live under, a complete unjust system."Palestine isn't the Green Brigade's only area of political interest, though. The group has previously protested against 6PM kick-offs by throwing balls onto the pitch, and in 2010 they protested against poppies being used on the club's strip, holding banners that read "Your deeds would shame all the devils in Hell. Ireland, Iraq, Afghanistan. No Blood Stained Poppies on Our Hoops."Into sport, are you? That's good – we've got a whole website dedicated to it.
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