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Irish FA backs motion to ban Israel from European football

If approved by Uefa, Israel teams will be banned from both club and international competition on the continent

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The Israeli national soccer team plays against Poland in the UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying tournament at the Teddy Stadium in Jerusalem, on November 16, 2019 (Flash90)

Israeli fans wave flags as they cheer their team warming up prior to the 2026 World Cup qualifiers, October 11, 2025 (Credit: FREDRIK VARFJELL/NTB/AFP via Getty Images)

Ireland’s football body passes motion calling on Uefa to suspend Israel

By Daniel Ben-David

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President of Ireland elect Catherine Connolly is pictured at Dublin castle as she is declared the winner of the presidential election on October 25, 2025 in Dublin, Ireland. (Photo by Charles McQuillan/Getty Images)

New Irish president said Hamas is part of ‘civil society of Palestine’

By Jane Prinsley

3 min read

A view of the government buildings in Dublin, Ireland. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Irish president frontrunner accused Israel of ‘Jewish supremacy’ years before current Gaza war

By Jane Prinsley

2 min read

People cheer as they watch the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest at a community center in Tel Aviv (Image: Getty)

Ireland says it will not participate in Eurovision 2026 if Israel is included

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Ireland's foreign minister Simon Harris delivers a speech during the European People's Party (EPP) congress in Valencia, on April 30, 2025. (Photo by JOSE JORDAN / AFP) (Photo by JOSE JORDAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Ireland’s deputy PM hears personal accounts of antisemitism from Irish Jews and voices ‘deep concern’

By Daniel Ben-David

3 min read

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Bono just showed celebrities how to criticise Israel without crossing the line

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The Irish and Gaza

How Ireland became Europe’s most anti-Israel island

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August 3, 2025 10:16

A flag showing solidarity between the Irish and Palestinians (Getty)

‘Genocidal Jew’ Dublin bus abuser is released without charge

A man filmed launching a drunken antisemitic tirade was arrested by police

By Eliana Jordan

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July 20, 2025 15:37

The man who launched the abusive tirade (Screenshot: X)

‘I’m half-Jewish and half-Irish – this is how I see the Ireland of today’

Amid rising antisemitism in the Emerald Isle, my biography – the exact same as James Joyce’s Leopold Bloom – is causing me more than a few headaches

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July 17, 2025 13:45

An anti-Israel rally in Dublin last month

Who is the Irish student who took on a furious anti-Israel crowd at an Ilan Pappé lecture?

Jamie O Mahony has been seen in a viral clip facing down an angry backlash after his pro-Israel comments

By Jane Prinsley

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July 8, 2025 10:56

Jamie O Mahony held onto his Israeli flag when a university staff member lunged towards him to grab it during an Ilan Pappé lecture (Photo: X screenshot)

Outrage over government-funded Irish magazine cover featuring Jewish stars on barbed wire

Comhar magazine accused of ‘defaming the Holocaust’ with Magen Davids on the wire next to pool of blood

By Jane Prinsley

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July 4, 2025 10:54

An Irish magazine is accused of producing antisemitic imagery after publishing a front page cartoon of wire barbed with Magen Davids dividing an amputee from sunbathers (photo: X screenshot)

Ireland is most anti-Israel country in Europe with echoes of 1930s Germany, former justice minister claims

Alan Shatter voices his ‘deeply concern’ for the country’s small Jewish community

By Lorin Bell-Cross

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May 1, 2025 11:39

Former Irish justice minister Alan Shatter (Image: Getty)

Sharon Osbourne calls for Kneecap's work visas to be cancelled after anti-Israel Coachella stunt

The Irish hip-hop group projected slogans including ‘F*** Israel, Free Palestine’ during its set at the major festival

By Imogen Garfinkel

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April 22, 2025 15:48

Sharon Osbourne has criticised Coachella's organiser, Goldenvoice, after Kneecap's anti-Israel set during the festival's second weekend (Getty Images)

Who are Kneecap? Northern Irish rappers behind Coachella anti-Israel protest previously led pro-Hezbollah chant

Anti-Israel rappers have repeatedly evoked Hezbollah and posted in support of Palestine a day after the October 7 massacre

By Jane Prinsley

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April 21, 2025 11:20

A photo of a member of Kneecap posing with a book about the Hezbollah terror chief has been seen 4.7 million times on X

Who are the Irish politicians who have gone full Houthi?

The former parliamentarians have a controversial history of anti-Western activism

By Daniel Ben-David

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April 3, 2025 13:13

Who are the Irish politicians who have gone full Houthi?

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