One of the League of Ireland’s commercial partners is a US military contractor that helps “optimise the performance” of soldiers – and has also provided performance analysis to Israeli sports teams.
Make a one-time donation to The Ditch The occupation lasted just eight hours. That’s all they needed. Twenty years ago last month nine members of the Derry Antiwar Coalition walked into the premises of international arms dealer Raytheon. The group, a mixture of socialists and Irish republicans, caused
A company funded by Enterprise Ireland – with more than €800,000 public cash behind it – has partnered with at least three international arms manufacturers accused of complicity in Israel's genocide in Gaza.
Jim O’Callaghan’s justice department granted residency to Israelis who served in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) during the Gaza genocide – while new statistics show Palestinian long-term visa refusals continuing to rise.
Though Social Democrats TD Eoin Hayes wrote in the Irish Times last month that losing a job is "one of the most traumatic events a person can go through”, he co-led a team responsible for cutting 200 jobs at a global tech company – including 70 roles in his own constituency.
The politics of policing in Ireland has some interesting idiosyncrasies.
With the Irish state, for the first time in a decade, refusing more Palestinian visa applications than it grants, as well widespread refusals for student visas for Palestinians, a group of international academics have called off a gathering at Maynooth University.
The Jewish Representative Council of Ireland (JRCI) in its successful application for a position identifying antisemitic content online told Coimisiún na Meán it would classify material “denying Jewish people self-determination, e.g., by claiming Israel’s existence is racist” as antisemitic.
SIPO has launched a formal inquiry into The Ditch reports that Fianna Fáil junior minister Niall Collins voted to sell local authority land that was bought by his wife.
British authorities detained two Irish neutrality activists on their way to an anti-NATO demonstration outside London on “anti-terrorism” grounds.
The campaigns manager in Ireland for a foreign political organisation carrying out a “name and shame” campaign against TDs is married to an Aontú general election candidate who sits on the party's ard comhairle.
More than 700 new PPS numbers and 600 work permits have been granted to Israelis in Ireland since October 2023.