A Northern Irish Town will light up the city building in support of Palestinians in Gaza despite strong opposition against a public display of solidarity by local pro-Israeli politicians....

A request by the Irish Republican Party, Sinn Fein, to open a book of condolence in Belfast city council for Palestinians killed in Gaza last week was blocked by...

Irish TV host Mike Murphy and former Eurovision winner Charlie McGettigan have “called for Ireland to boycott next year’s song contest in Israel”, reported the Irish Mirror. I think...

Hundreds of people gathered Tuesday in front of the British prime minister’s Downing Street office in London to protest the killing of Palestinian demonstrators in Gaza by Israeli forces....

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu criticized the mayor of Dublin, Ireland Thursday over his recent visit to Palestine. Dublin Lord Mayor Micheal Mac Donncha “should be ashamed of himself...

Israeli authorities announced yesterday that Dublin Lord Mayor Micheál MacDonncha was barred from entering the country over his “ties to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement”. MacDonncha, however, was...

The Council for International Relations (CIR) has praised the position of former Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams, who has called for the expulsion of Israel’s ambassador after its army’s...

Students at Trinity College Dublin have overwhelmingly voted to support the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) campaign, with the referendum result announced to cheers and chants. Asked whether Trinity...

Israel banned two pro-Palestine Irish activists from entering the occupied West Bank on Friday, claiming that they planned to harass the occupation forces, Quds Press has reported. When the...

Jim Fitzpatrick: 'Ahed Tamimi, to me, signifies nobility in the face of oppression...'

On a summer’s evening in July 2015, three young children were taken by their father from Ireland to Algeria while their mother waited for them at home. Kamel Fekkar...

Ireland is set to discuss a new bill that seeks to prohibit the import and sale of goods originating in illegal settlements in occupied Palestinian Territory. Independent Senator Frances...

Ireland’s Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Simon Coveney, visited projects supported by his country in the Gaza Strip on Thursday. Coveney arrived in the occupied Palestinian territory through...

After spending 4 years in an Egyptian prison, Ibrahim Halawa arrives in Dublin receiving a warm welcome

Ibrahim Halawa, an Irish-Egyptian who was imprisoned in Egypt for four years, has been released after a court acquitted him of all charges last month, the Irish Times reported...

Saudi opposition forces are holding their first conference abroad today in Dublin, Ireland in an unprecedented attempt to form an organised opposition calling for reform, according to the conference...

A new initiative is being launched in Ireland in support of freedom of thought and speech in Saudi Arabia. Citizens Without Chains (CWC) hopes to “disrupt the status quo,...

Ibrahim Halawa, an Irish-Egyptian who was imprisoned in Egypt for four years, has been acquitted of all charges a court outside Cairo has ruled. During a mass trial today,...

The trial of Irish-Egyptian Ibrahim Halawa was postponed once again yesterday, however Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi has promised to return him to Ireland as soon as the court...

An Irish naval ship rescued 712 people including pregnant women and infants off the coast of the Libyan capital of Tripoli as part of an international migrant rescue effort,...

After a 66-day open hunger strike, the Irish fighter Bobby Sands passed away, along with ten of his comrades. They challenged the British prime minister, the “Iron Lady” Margaret...

Irish President Michael D Higgins has called for an “urgent resolution” to the four-year trial in Egypt of the 21-year-old Irish citizen Ibrahim Halawa, according to Irish Independent. Speaking...

Dublin Council flies Palestinian flag over city hall in 'gesture of solidarity'

Sinn Féin MP Lynn Boylan has called on the Irish government to take an international legal challenge against the Egyptian government for their breach of the human rights of...

Prominent international figures from the arts industry, politics and media have endorsed a conference “International Law and the State of Israel”. British film maker Ken Loach, Archbishop Desmond Tutu,...

A conference on international law and the state of Israel that was reportedly previously cancelled will go ahead as planned, organisers have confirmed. In an announcement on their website,...

Pro-Palestinian protesters prevented a speech by the Israeli Ambassador to Ireland, Ze’ev Boker, from going ahead on Monday at Trinity College, Dublin. Trinity’s Society for International Affairs had invited...