Palestine

Minister for Justice offers to prioritise Gaza students’ appeals over visa refusal

Proposal would see cases of four scholarship students heard and decided by Friday

Tue Oct 06 2026 - 17:12

The one thing Israel hasn’t managed to take from us in three years is hope

Thousands of women whose husbands have been killed, detained or have gone missing now carry the sole responsibility of protecting and providing for their families

Tue Oct 06 2026 - 06:00

At Plaid Cymru’s annual party conference, it wasn’t always clear who the protesters were

After destroying Labour in May’s Senedd elections, Plaid Cymru is now in charge

Mon Oct 05 2026 - 20:15

‘It’s off the charts’: Satellite images show how three years of war have devastated Gaza

UN says number of destroyed structures in Gaza up by 9% since ceasefire of October 2025, amid mass displacement and acute humanitarian need

Mon Oct 05 2026 - 06:00

Taoiseach questions Sinn Féin ‘sincerity’ over Garvaghy Road situation

Micheál Martin says one football match is not going to get Israeli government to ‘change direction’

Sat Oct 03 2026 - 21:48

Micheál Martin’s Palestine contradiction

If his Department of Justice perseveres in its obduracy, the shame will not stop outside the door of Government Buildings

Sat Oct 03 2026 - 06:00

Events surrounding Nations League turn Ireland’s football hope to shame

Irish players, fans, Gaza and Palestine have all been all let down

Fri Oct 02 2026 - 06:00

Macklemore ‘blown away’ after Free Palestine tour sells out ‘immediately’

Rapper announced concerts in Dublin, London and Paris after he was dropped from Ed Sheeran’s tour over Gaza comments

Thu Oct 01 2026 - 09:19

FAI to face questions over handling of Israel game at Oireachtas committee appearance

Calls for support for Ireland players who ‘don’t want to share the same pitch as a genocidal regime’.

Wed Sept 30 2026 - 09:38

You don’t boycott an Ed Sheeran tour just to look cool with a peace sign. Boycotts hurt

Boycotts are about more than hitting the “like” button on a social media post. Principles cost

Wed Sept 30 2026 - 06:00

Putting faith in religion in a country ‘open to everything except for God’

One brave man’s beliefs led him to make principled stand against Ireland v Israel football match

Tue Sept 29 2026 - 06:00

John Banville cancels appearance at Spanish festival after it drops Argentinian author over pro-Israel stance

Booker Prize-winning novelist was a headline act at Granada literary festival but withdrew over exclusion of author Ariana Harwicz

Mon Sept 28 2026 - 06:00

Irish citizens are already ashamed of Israel and inaction, Taoiseach

Micheál Martin needs to act now and use his current position in the EU

Sat Sept 26 2026 - 06:00

Do Jewish lives not count?

If we’re going to display images of Palestinian victims, can we also include the victims of the October 7th attack?

Sat Sept 26 2026 - 06:00

Hecht off – Frank McNally on the testing testimony of a brilliant newspaper man

New York-born journalist and author set bar rather high for those who followed

Thu Sept 24 2026 - 19:00

Israeli bulldozers smash Palestinian olive trees before annual harvest

‘They left us with nothing,’ says owner of olive grove in West Bank

Thu Sept 24 2026 - 08:16

Martin and Mamdani call bingo numbers and smile for the cameras in heart of Irish New York

Mayor bats away offer from marijuana dispensary as Taoiseach explains the Subway’s Cork connection

Wed Sept 23 2026 - 22:45

Supporters urge Spanish PM to spurn US request for extradition of Palestine aid donor

Wealthy activist Fergie Chambers arrested in Ibiza last July after extradition request

Wed Sept 23 2026 - 16:35

Irish footballers should abandon match against ‘baby killers’, TD tells Dáil

Paul Murphy calls on team to ‘do the right thing’ by refusing to fulfil Israel fixture on Sunday

Wed Sept 23 2026 - 15:20

Our casual cruelty towards some gifted Gazan students

When it comes to backing up what it says with deeds, the Government is found wanting

Wed Sept 23 2026 - 06:00

Netanyahu says he will use UN address to ‘tell the truth about’ New York mayor

Zohran Mamdani brushed off the remarks, saying the Israeli prime minister is ‘the architect of horrific genocide against Palestinians’

Tue Sept 22 2026 - 23:18

FAI should do its job and cancel the Ireland-Israel football matches

We will not sing in Eurovision because of Israel, but we will play them at football

Tue Sept 22 2026 - 06:00

At the ‘Art Olympics’ in Venice, the horrors of Gaza have not been forgotten

Prize jury of the Venice Biennale resigned before the doors opened in a protest over the participation of Russia and Israel

Mon Sept 21 2026 - 19:00

Israel’s settlement policy is designed to bury the idea of a two-state solution

Netanyahu boasted in 2025 that ‘we are going to fulfil our promise that there will be no Palestinian state.’

Mon Sept 21 2026 - 06:35

The Ed Sheeran controversy made Irish artists the biggest in the world

Until now, there has been a perception and reality that speaking out against Israel’s genocide in Palestine will hurt the bottom line

Mon Sept 21 2026 - 06:05

‘We came to the best place on earth. Irish people have been so generous to Palestine’

Izzedeen Alkarajeh runs Café Izz in Cork city, serving authentic Palestinian food, with his wife Eman

Mon Sept 21 2026 - 06:00

Can anyone end the Netanyahu era?

An Arab party could decide Israel’s future – with a new deputy who is a Jewish lawmaker and paratrooper

Mon Sept 21 2026 - 05:49

‘We have skin in the game’: TD backs ‘half Irish’ Macklemore after Sheeran ditching

Plus: National Library seeks a Deputy Chief Herald, Phil Hogan tours East Africa as he bids for UN job, Marty Whelan honoured to be honoured

Sun Sept 20 2026 - 06:00

New poetry: ‘The most horrifying, exquisite and staggering poems I have ever read’

Mícheál McCann reviews Milk & Moon-water by Milena Williamson; Real Estate by Mark Ward; Landscape with Question by Leeanne Quinn; and 48kg by Batool Abu Akleen

Sun Sept 20 2026 - 04:13