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A group of sick Palestinian children have been evacuated from Gaza to Ireland to receive medical treatment, the Tánaiste and Minister for Health have confirmed. Seven children arrived in Dublin on Saturday evening, with 29 accompanying family members.It marks the third medical evacuation from Gaza following Government approval in September last year in response to an appeal from the World Health Organization (WHO) to address the health needs of Gazans. Doctors from Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) worked with the WHO to identify sick and injured children who would benefit from treatment in Ireland. The group traveled from Gaza to Jordan...

An Irish political reporter/commentator named Eoghan MacConnell opines upon voters who stray off the reservation (won't be good house n-words) refusing to vote for slates of establishment candidates (eunuchs in the Sultan's harem), as if party discipline extended down to the voting booth. This is in "People who spoil votes shouldn't get State benefits says Laois Fine Gael Councillor" https://www.ireland-live.ie/news/laois-live/1928027/people-who-spoil-votes-shouldn-t-get-state-benefits-says-laois-fine-gael-councillor.htmlThis takes me back to the Irish Olympic team's "national anthem" when they fielded their first national team, in the 1924 Summer Olympics, having just thrown out the bloody British. This is titled "Let Erin Remember the Days of Old". A...

Catherine Connolly’s lop-sided victory to be Ireland’s next head of state was accompanied by a surge in vandalized ballots from right-wing voters. DUBLIN — Independent socialist Catherine Connolly swept to a landslide victory Saturday to become Ireland’s next president, dealing a record-breaking rebuke to the two center-ground parties of government.Jubilant supporters of the 68-year-old Connolly, a lawmaker from the western city of Galway, embraced and kissed her as final results from Friday’s election were announced at the Dublin Castle count center.In her victory speech, Connolly struck an immediate note of unity. She stood side by side with Ireland’s government...

A Laois Fine Gael Councillor said he believed people who spoiled their vote shouldn’t be entitled to State benefits. Councillor John King made the comment at the Laois Presidential Election Count Center in Scoil Chríost Rí (Christ the King School) in Portlaoise this morning. In Laois, more than one in ten voters chose to spoil their vote rather than select any of the candidates on the paper. In total there were 4,156 spoiled votes, representing 14.6 percent of the Laois vote. “I am disappointed with the spoiled votes because our forefathers fought to get those votes,” Councillor King said in...

As an example of political self-harm by establishment political parties, the current Irish presidential election will be hard to equal. The latest opinion poll before Friday’s vote indicates that the far-Left independent candidate, Catherine Connolly, is likely to romp home in this two-horse race. With just two days to go, Connolly has an unassailable 19-point lead over her sole opponent, Heather Humphreys of the centre-Right Fine Gael party. Humphreys ended up being the establishment candidate, after the centrist Fianna Fáil party’s candidate was forced to withdraw from the election as a result of a minor scandal regarding overpaid rent of...

Left-wing comedian Rosie O’Donnell got more than she bargained for when Instagram users flooded her post calling for an economic boycott of the U.S., calling the boycott out of touch with the reality of working Americans. The former The View co-host posted her call to boycott America on Wednesday with a meme demanding a “Mass Blackout” and promising to launch “The largest economic blackout protest in U.S. history.” O’Donnell’s post calls for workers to refuse to go to work, for people to stay home and not attend any sort of event, and for people to stay away from all restaurants....

A former paratrooper accused of murdering two civilians in the Bloody Sunday shootings in Northern Ireland 53 years ago has been found not guilty. Soldier F - who cannot be identified for legal reasons - was accused of killing James Wray and William McKinney during disorder after a civil rights parade on 30 January 1972 in Londonderry, also known as Derry. The veteran was also found not guilty of five attempted murders at Belfast Crown Court on Thursday. He had denied all seven charges. Thirteen people were shot dead by the Parachute Regiment on the day in question.

“‘This is Ireland, this is our country, get them out, get them f***ing out,’ roared a woman through a loudhailer.” So opens Conor Lally’s October 22 article in Ireland’s establishment newspaper, The Irish Times. His subject, a rowdy anti-immigration protest in Dublin County. Not until the 19th paragraph does Lally mention what triggered the protest, namely the arraignment of “an African man” for “the sexual assault on Monday of a 10-year-old Irish girl.” The first 18 paragraphs were dedicated to the “thuggery” of the protestors and fawning praise for the “well-drilled lines of gardaí.” The gardai—the Irish word for police—“quickly...

Outraged by accusations that an asylum-seeker had sexually assaulted a 10-year-old girl, thousands of flag-waving, bottle-throwing, firework-wielding Irish citizens surrounded a migrant hotel in southwest Dublin, Ireland on Tuesday night, setting fire to a police vehicle. Six people were arrested from a furious crowd estimated to have numbered approximately 2,000. The Irish police force — or “Gardai” — say they were on the receiving end of “sustained violence” that included glass bottles, bricks and fireworks. Despite the onslaught, a line of Gardai in riot gear were able to prevent the mob from reaching the hotel. Bringing the “torches and pitchforks”...

This is the moment a police van was set on fire as riots broke out near a hotel used to house asylum seekers in Dublin. Officers were also attacked with missiles and fireworks as protesters gathered at the Citywest Hotel last night. Six people were arrested and the Irish police service, the gardai or An Garda Siochana, said one of its officers suffered a foot injury. Ireland's Justice Minister Jim O'Callaghan said that those involved in the violence will be brought to justice. He said: 'The scenes of public disorder we have witnessed at Citywest tonight must be condemned. 'Unfortunately,...

Ireland has officially joined the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) as an associate member state. CERN is an intergovernmental organization that operates the largest particle physics laboratory in the world on the Franco-Swiss border, just outside Geneva. The main focus of activity in CERN is the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a 27-km (17-mile) underground ring in which protons are accelerated and collided into one another. Associate membership will allow Ireland’s researchers to participate in CERN’s scientific programs and will make Irish citizens eligible for staff positions and fellowships at CERN. …

Tánaiste Simon Harris is expected to call for the EU to play a greater role in increasing humanitarian aid to Gaza … at an EU foreign minister meeting today. […] Speaking ahead of today’s meeting, the Tánaiste said the EU’s focus on the Middle East “must now be on preserving the ceasefire and flooding Gaza with desperately needed humanitarian aid”. “The people of Gaza have endured unimaginable suffering. Ireland has announced an additional €6 million in humanitarian aid for the people of Gaza to fund urgent food, medical care and other vital services,” he added. …

Dublin’s Mater Hospital recorded a 68% increase in knife-related injuries in its Emergency Department over the past five years, prompting calls from ED doctors for more measures to deal with the issue. The Irish Association of Emergency Medicine (IAEM) is calling for a focus on prevention and first aid skills, as well as equipment to deal with what it describes as a concerning and urgent issue across the country. Over the past decade, knife-related crime has been on the rise and while incidents dipped last year, knife injuries are now a regular issue for doctors in emergency departments. The IAEM...

English nationalism is now the "biggest threat" to the union, Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) leader Mike Nesbitt has said. He made the remarks at his party's annual conference - his second in charge since reclaiming the leadership last year. Nesbitt is also Stormont's health minister in Northern Ireland's devolved government. Speaking to the party faithful in Belfast, he said he wanted to "deliver hope through prosperity". He dismissed the idea of a border poll taking place anytime soon on a united Ireland. "While unionists have always looked over their shoulders at Irish nationalists as the biggest threat to Northern Ireland's...

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Rosie O’Donnell is applying for Irish citizenship amid her ongoing feud with President Donald Trump. In an interview with the UK’s Daily Telegraph, the 63-year-old comedian explained she is putting herself in “self-imposed (political exile)” in Ireland after she first moved there in January of this year. “I am applying and about to be approved for my Irish citizenship as my grandparents were from there and that’s all you need,” she told the outlet. “It will be good to have my Irish citizenship, especially since Trump keeps threatening to take away mine.” “What great news for America!” White House spokesperson...

Irish activists who arrived to Ireland late on Monday night have said they were treated with “petty and extreme cruelties” by Israeli authorities and endured “really unpleasant” conditions while they were detained. Sarah Clancy, Thomas McCune and Donna Schwarz were the first to arrive to Ireland after being detained alongside 13 other Irish citizens following the interception of the Global Sumud Flotilla last week. […] “For example, Greta Thunberg was made to kneel beside an Israeli flag while people marched around her, taking her photo,” she said. They were subsequently brought to Ktzi’ot Prison, she said, where they were subject...

Three of 15 Irish citizens held by Israel after it intercepted the Global Sumud Flotilla returned to Dublin Airport before midnight. Thomas McCune, Sarah Clancy and Donna Schwartz were welcomed at the airport by family, friends and supporters. They were given a change of clothes, rehydration packs, water and essential medications when they arrived. The 15 Irish left Tel Aviv for Athens in Greece yesterday. […] Niamh MacNamara, coordinator with Global Movement to Gaza Éire, said the Irish Government’s “inaction” had “directly led to this situation, ordinary Irish citizens forced to risk their lives because leaders refused to act”. She...

SUMMARYProtests erupt in Spain, Italy, Ireland, France, Germany and Switzerland Protesters in Barcelona smash windows In Italy, students occupy, block access to universities Pro-Palestinian demonstrators in Europe on Thursday blocked traffic and vandalised shops and restaurants after Israeli forces intercepted a Gaza-bound humanitarian aid flotilla. Israel faced international condemnation after armed Israeli soldiers boarded around 40 ships that were attempting to break a naval blockade to deliver aid to the Palestinian enclave, arresting more than 400 foreign activists including Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg. In Barcelona, protesters smashed or spray-painted anti-Israel slogans on windows of stores and restaurants including coffee...

A pregnant woman in Dublin, Ireland told authorities she is “living in fear for me and my kids and my unborn child” after her boyfriend allegedly threatened to drag her “by the hair of her head to the abortion clinic” when she refused to kill her baby in an abortion. That’s according to court testimony and a local news report that underscores the perils of coercive control against expectant mothers. The man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was refused bail last Friday at Tallaght District Court following the September 12 domestic incident in Dublin’s Tallaght area. The 20-something...