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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 530

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Sinn Fein president Mary Lou McDonald reacts after arriving at the count at the Royal Dublin Society in Dublin, Saturday, Nov. 30, 2024.(AP Photo/Peter Morrison)
February 21, 2025, 4:02 pm
Irish politicians to boycott annual White House visit over Trump’s Gaza plan
Opposition Sinn Fein says leaders won’t attend St. Patrick’s Day event, calling US plan to resettle Gazans a ‘threat of mass expulsion’
By AFP, Lazar Berman and ToI Staff
Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar (R) gifts a bouquet of Shamrocks to US President Joe Biden during a St. Patrick's Day Celebration at the White House in Washington, on March 17, 2024. (Jim Watson/AFP)
March 19, 2024, 8:05 pm
In Ireland, Israel-Palestinian conflict serves as stand-in for fight against British
The Emerald Isle’s current criticism of Israel over war against Hamas follows years-long hostility to Jewish state, believing it uses the same ‘apparatus of occupation’ as the UK
By Ron Kampeas
Newly appointed Northern Ireland's First minister, from Sinn Fein, party Michelle O'Neil speaks during the Northern Ireland Assembly, at the Parliament Building, in Stormont, February 3, 2024. (Photo by Kelvin BOYES / NORTHERN IRELAND ASSEMBLY / AFP)
February 4, 2024, 12:22 pm
Sinn Fein’s Michelle O’Neill makes history as 1st nationalist to lead Northern Ireland
Party leader gets role of first minister as government resumes work after unionists’ 2-year boycott; will share power with deputy Emma Little-Pengelly of Democratic Unionist Party
By brian melley
US President Joe Biden (R) embraces President Isaac Herzog (L) during the opening ceremony of the Maccabiah Games at Teddy Stadium in Jerusalem on July 14, 2022. (RONEN ZVULUN / POOL / AFP)
July 15, 2022, 6:25 pm
Sinn Féin, Gaelic and boxing: Biden and Herzog connect over Irish heritage
In warm visit, presidents reference joint ancestral ties in public speeches and private meeting
By Lazar Berman
In this April 22, 1955 file photo, British Admiral Earl Louis Mountbatten sits at his desk in full uniform for the first time at the Admirality in London. (AP Photo, File)
April 19, 2021, 4:02 am
Ireland’s Sinn Fein ‘sorry’ for 1979 IRA murder of UK royal Louis Mountbatten
Comment from current leader Mary Lou McDonald comes a day after funeral of Mountbatten’s nephew Prince Philip
By AFP
Irish republican Sinn Fein party leader Mary Lou McDonald speaks to members of the media after arriving at the Dublin City count in the RDS centre in Dublin, Ireland on February 9, 2020. (Ben STANSALL / AFP)
February 11, 2020, 5:04 am
Sinn Fein shatters Ireland’s political landscape to become second largest party
Party with historic links to IRA wins popular vote and garners second most seats in parliament; is arguing for a central role in power for first time
By Agencies
Jeremy Corbyn speaks at a 2015 conference in Belfast, Northern Ireland, hosted by the Sinn Fein party. The now UK Labour Party leader expressed support for boycotting Israel in his remarks at the conference. (Screen capture: YouTube)
August 18, 2018, 2:54 am
UK’s Corbyn endorses boycotting Israel in 2015 video
Footage shows now-Labour head saying sanctioning Israel an ‘appropriate way’ to further peace process; he has previously denied backing BDS
By JTA
Sinn Fein MEP Lynn Boyland (Screen capture: YouTube)
May 14, 2018, 3:32 am
Irish politicians call for boycotting Israel after Eurovision win
‘Let’s make BDS more successful than ever in 2019,’ Sinn Féin party member urges; another legislator pans colleagues’ ‘pathetic hate’ for the Jewish state
By JTA
Demonstrators in Dublin protest Israeli military operations in Gaza in early 2009. (CC BY/albertw via Flickr.com)
April 12, 2018, 6:33 pm
Israel slams Ireland over Dublin mayor’s Ramallah trip
Foreign Ministry summons Irish envoy after capital’s city council endorses boycott and mayor seems to endorse Palestinian mufti who met Hitler
By Raphael Ahren
Illustrative: People stand in line to go through passport control at Ben Gurion International Airport in Israel, September 21, 2008. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)
April 11, 2018, 2:37 am
Israel tries to bar Dublin mayor, but fails because it spells his name wrong
Immigration officers were told to prevent Mícheál Mac Donncha from entering Israel en route to Ramallah after Irish capital passed two anti-Israel resolutions; too late, he tweets
By ToI Staff and Raphael Ahren
The Palestinian flag flies over Dublin's City Hall on May 9, 2017 following a vote by the city council. (Michael Riordan/Times of Israel)
April 10, 2018, 11:41 pm
Dublin council calls to expel Israeli ambassador, endorse BDS
In retaliation, Israel’s interior minister instructs immigration officers to prevent mayor from entering Israel en route to pro-Palestinian conference in Ramallah
By Raphael Ahren
A newly painted mural of Gerry Adams on the Falls Road, West Belfast, Northern Ireland, May, 2 2014. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison, file)
November 19, 2017, 12:42 am
Sinn Féin’s divisive leader to step down after over 30 years
Irish nationalist Gerry Adams, a long-time critic of Israel, says he will hand over leadership of the Northern Ireland party next year
By AP and ToI Staff
Demonstrators in Dublin protest Israeli military operations in Gaza in early 2009. (CC BY/albertw via Flickr.com)
April 5, 2017, 7:03 pm
Israel pans bid to fly Palestinian flag over Dublin city hall
Foreign Ministry characterizes motion as a ‘white flag of surrender to terrorism’; measure to be ratified on May 8
By Jacob Magid
European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini and President of the Palestinian National Authority Mahmud Abbas (L) address the media after a meeting at the European Union Commission headquarters in Brussels on June 22, 2016.(AFP PHOTO / THIERRY CHARLIER)
October 31, 2016, 2:26 pm
EU declares Israel boycott protected as free speech
Palestinians hail Federica Mogherini’s statement, but she stresses that the union ‘rejects the BDS campaign’s attempts to isolate Israel’
By Raphael Ahren
Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams (L) and Sinn Fein politician and Northern Ireland's Deputy First Minister, Martin Mcguinness (2R) speak during a press conference outside Stormont Castle in Belfast, Northern Ireland on June 24, 2016, after the United Kingdom's June 23 referendum in which voters chose to leave the European Union. (AFP Photo/Paul Faith)
June 25, 2016, 9:21 pm
In divided Belfast, Brexit vote sows fresh uncertainty
Northern Ireland voted to remain in EU, and rifts exposed by the result could prompt a surge in calls for a united Ireland, and fears of new violence too
By Douglas DALBY
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