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Catherine Connolly Wins: An Historic Victory For The left In Ireland

October 28, 2025 Paul Murphy, Europe Solidaire. , , , ,
The combined forces of the political and media establishment threw everything they could at Connolly to try to stop the momentum behind her campaign. “Smear the bejaysus out of her”, as Ivan Yates [1] suggested, was the strategy deployed. Her trip to Syria, her employment of a Republican convicted of a gun crime, her comments in opposition to US, French and British imperialism, as well as her previous work as a barrister, were all endlessly scrutinised and picked over. The red thread running through the majority of the smears was the fact that she is out of touch with the political and media establishment in her defence of neutrality and opposition to aligning more and more openly with NATO.

Irish Groups Launch Fightback Against Rising Racism

October 7, 2025 Joe Glenton, The Canary. , , ,
With racism and right-wing extremism on the rise across Ireland, civil society groups are fighting back. The North West Anti-Racism Charter will launch this today, 7 October, at Derry’s Guildhall. Developed by Bloody Sunday Trust, the North West Migrants Forum and the Irish Network Against Racism, the charter is: A statement of intent, providing a way for businesses, organisations, community groups, schools, and individuals to push back against the rise of racist messaging and actions in the region. Far-right racism has been on the rise in Ireland for some time. Extremist groups in the Republic and the north have increasingly tried to blame migrants for social issues. The Canary recently reported how young people have been swept up by bigoted rhetoric and disinformation.

Universities Worldwide Sever Ties With Israeli Academia, Netherlands To Boycott Eurovision

September 13, 2025 News Desk, The Cradle. , , , , , , , ,
Universities and scholarly associations across Europe and South America have announced suspensions of cooperation with Israeli institutions, citing their role in aiding the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, The Guardian reported on 13 September. Trinity College Dublin announced this summer that it was ending collaboration with Israeli partners. Meanwhile, the Federal University of Ceará in Brazil had already canceled a planned innovation summit with an Israeli university last year. Similar actions were announced by institutions in Norway, Belgium, and Spain. The University of Amsterdam confirmed it was terminating its student exchange with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The European Association of Social Anthropologists also said it would refuse cooperation with Israeli bodies and called on its members to follow the same path.

Ireland Shuts Down Last Coal Plant Ahead Of Schedule

June 25, 2025 Cristen Hemingway Jaynes, EcoWatch. , , , ,
Ireland has become the sixth European country to end its use of coal with its scheduled shut-down of the Moneypoint coal-fired power plant six months earlier than originally planned. The 915 megawatt station will continue to operate in an oil-based backup capacity under emergency instruction until 2029, reported The Irish Examiner. “This is the end of coal in Ireland and the start of a cleaner energy future,” said Paddy Hayes, ESB’s chief executive officer, in the statement, as Bloomberg reported. Developed in the 1980s, Moneypoint is one of the largest energy stations in Ireland. As renewables make up an increasing share of the world’s power generation, coal is becoming obsolete as a fuel source.

Ireland Formally Joins ICJ Genocide Case Against Israel

January 8, 2025 News Desk, The Cradle. , , , , ,
Ireland has submitted a declaration to join South Africa's case at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) accusing Israel of genocide. “Ireland, invoking Article 63 of the Statute of the Court, filed in the Registry of the Court a declaration of intervention in the case concerning Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip,” or South Africa versus Israel, the ICJ said in a statement on 7 January. Under Article 63, any state party to a convention that is under judicial consideration has the right to intervene, making the ICJ's interpretation of that convention binding on them as well.

Blockade Against Use Of Ireland’s Shannon Airport By US Military

October 14, 2024 Órla Ryan, The Journal. , , , , ,
Two people were arrested at a protest in Co Clare against the use of Shannon Airport by the US military. Both people were arrested in relation to public order incidents at the airport this afternoon. There was a large garda presence ahead of today’s event with local members from the amalgamated Clare and Tipperary divisions backed up by Garda Public Order Unit officers from Clare, Limerick, Tipperary and Cork. From early this morning, one lane of the N19 main road into Shannon Airport was closed while gardaí checked vehicles including buses before they were allowed continue to the airport. Only intending passengers, airport and industrial estate workers or those with business in the airport were allowed continue past the checkpoints.

Israeli Forces In ‘Outrageous Threat’ To Irish UN Troops In Lebanon

October 11, 2024 Mick Hall, Consortium News. , , , ,
An Irish-Israeli diplomatic crisis has been defused after Israel withdrew its invasion force from firing positions metres from a U.N. post in south Lebanon staffed by Irish peacekeepers. Irish President Michael D. Higgins had called Israeli demands for U.N. peacekeepers to abandon their posts as its invading army crossed deeper into Lebanese sovereign territory “an outrageous threat.” The incident underlined how Israel is increasingly alienating itself on the international stage while continuing to undermine institutions and instruments of international humanitarian law.

European Recognition Of Palestine Signals Major Shift In Discourse

June 6, 2024 Ramzy Baroud, MintPress News. , , , , ,
If one were to argue that a top Spanish government official would someday declare that “from the river to the sea, Palestine would be free,” the suggestion would have seemed ludicrous. But this is precisely how Yolanda Diaz, Spain’s Deputy Prime Minister, concluded a statement on May 23, a few days before Spain officially recognized Palestine as a state. The Spanish, Norwegian, and Irish recognition of Palestine is the most important. Western Europe is finally catching up with the rest of the world regarding the significance of a solid international position in support of the Palestinian people and rejection of Israel’s genocidal practices in occupied Palestine.

Ireland, Spain And Norway To Formally Recognize Palestinian Statehood

May 23, 2024 Diego Ramos, Scheer Post. , , , , ,
Ireland, Spain and Norway will formally recognize a Palestinian state on May 28, a milestone diplomatic decision that hopes to bring resolution to the conflict in Gaza. “We must be on the right side of history,” Irish Prime Minister Simon Harris said amongst the announcements with Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez. Harris, speaking at a news conference in Dublin, said he hopes the decision would “offer hope and encouragement to the people of Palestine at one of their darkest hours.” Sánchez addressed the Spanish Parliament, stating: We hope that our recognition and our reasons contribute to other western countries following this path, because the more we are, the more strength we will have to impose a ceasefire, to achieve the release of the hostages held by Hamas, to relaunch the political process that can lead to a peace agreement.

The Student Movement That Forced Ireland’s Trinity College To Divest

May 18, 2024 Priyanka Borpujari, Waging Nonviolence. , , , , ,
Right after Dublin native Ben turned 16, he spent his summer vacations working at event companies that organized concerts and comedy shows. Little did he know that three years later, that experience would help him organize — with nearly a hundred of his peers — a major protest of Trinity College Dublin’s ties with Israel. After five nights in tents on the grassy patch in front of the highly-visited Book of Kells Museum, Trinity acceded to the protesters’ demands and went down in history as one of the first universities to agree to divest from Israeli companies. “I always wanted to partake in effecting change, and this was an opportunity,” the philosophy and politics student said five days after the encampment ended.

Protesters Block Road To Shannon Airport In Ireland

April 19, 2024 David Swanson, World Beyond War. , , ,
People flying from Shannon Airport on Sunday afternoon were forced to leave their vehicles and walk the remaining distance to the terminal after protesters blocked the only access route. Gardaí and Airport Police used their vehicles to take passengers and airport staff from the location of the protest on the N19 to the airport building almost 2km away. Organisers described the demonstration as a “major national mobilisation” against the U.S. military’s use of Shannon Airport. Protesters mounted the action to call for an immediate end to U.S. troops and planes passing through the airport.

A Radical Vision For The Housing Crisis In The West Of Ireland

April 10, 2024 Aysha Khan, Next City. , , ,
Transit-oriented development is a land use planning approach that concentrates high-density, mixed-use development – housing, groceries, retail, employment, childcare – within walking distance from rapid transit services. Centering development around transit hubs helps create vibrant, active, affordable and accessible neighbourhoods where both businesses and people – residents, workers and tourists alike – can thrive. Polysee chose a 32-hectare parcel of land by Oranmore station, just outside Galway City, to model what this could look like.

Ireland To Intervene In ICJ Genocide Case Against Israel

March 29, 2024 News Desk, The  Cradle. , , , , ,
Ireland will intervene in South Africa's genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), Foreign Minister Micheal Martin announced on 29 March. Martin said that while it was for the ICJ to determine whether Israel is committing genocide, he explained that Israel's actions in Gaza represent "the blatant violation of international humanitarian law on a mass scale." In November, South Africa brought the case to the ICJ, accusing Israel of committing genocide. The proceedings are expected to last for years.

When Starvation Is A Weapon, The Harvest Is Shame

March 17, 2024 Kathy Kelly, World Beyond War. , , , , ,
In a work entitled “Irish Famine 4,” Palestinian-American journalist and artist Sam Husseini combined grass and paint to commemorate a bitter time in Irish history when starving people died with their mouths stained green because, according to historian Christine Kinealy, their last meal was grass. Shamefully, British occupiers profited from exporting out of Ireland food crops so desperately needed. Over a seven year period, beginning in 1845, one million Irish people died from starvation and related diseases. It was a conscious mass killing.

Irish Seanad Calls For Sanctions On Apartheid Israel

February 27, 2024 Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign. , , , ,
The Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign this evening welcomed the unanimous passing of a motion in the Seanad calling for robust actions by the Irish government to hold Apartheid Israel accountable for its ongoing crimes against the Palestinian people. The motion, moved by the Civic Engagement Group Senators Frances Black, Lynne Ruane, Alice Mary Higgins and Eileen Flynn, is comprehensive and calls on the Irish government to, among other things: impose sanctions on Israel; enact the Occupied Territories Bill and the Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill; to actively ensure no US weapons are being sent to Israel through Irish airspace; and to push for an international arms embargo on Israel
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