Ireland

The potential uncertainty over Kneecap’s North American tour comes as one band member, Mo Chara, faces terrorism charges in London over wearing a Hezbollah flag.

Historian Catherine Corless uncovered 796 death certificates but no burial records for the children who died at the institution.

The display featured a large image of a Palestinian flag and received applause and cheers from tens of thousands of fans at one of Europe’s largest music festivals.

Minor hiccups aside, this show was two hours of sheer musical and dance energy that made you feel good, happy, and very much alive.

After four visits to Ireland in the last four years, including two since Hamas’s October 7, 2023 massacres in Israel, we have never experienced any antisemitic remarks or actions directed toward us.

Sean Rooney was killed in 2022 while on a UNIFIL mission in Lebanon.

The 70-year-old pro-Palestinian activist was allegedly arrested alongside 48-year-old Swedish activist Susanne Björk.

The local Jewish population was already in decline when the Belfast Hebrew Congregation was built in 1964 as a house of worship with a capacity of 1,500.

As Ireland does very little trade with the settlements, the ban is a "symbolic move," following the country's official recognition last year of Palestine as a state.

Maybe people were simply voting for the song and the performance, not expressing any deeper political sentiment. Either way, we have reason to feel proud.