Caoimhe McDermott

[Tanausu Acero @guanchewarrior]

@Jonathan_K_Cook This is the full video.
I don’t know if humanity can ever recover from this.
Not just the atrocities.
But the overwhelming support for these horrors by Western media.
Have we lost our minds?
Have we lost our humanity???

[liam cunningham @liamcunningham1]

This is Zionism

[Daniel Lambert @dlLambo]

You can't hide genocide.

Moving the game is not a step forward but a huge step backwards.

On both legal and moral grounds we must not play Israel anywhere in the nations league.

A clear majority of Irish people, supporters and players are against the game.

#StopTheGame

[The Ditch @wereontheditch]

Jack Chambers urged every major Irish sporting body to use their "influence and authority" to enforce bans on Russia and Belarus after the invasion of Ukraine.

Yesterday government defeated proposals calling for the Ireland-Israel match to be stopped.

https://t.co/lG2Ek38F7e

[Kevin O'Connor @kevintoconnor]

Micheál Martin was part of the cabinet that dealt with the 1999 Ireland/Yugoslavia match by refusing to give visas to the Yugoslav players. The EUFA/FIFA penalties against Ireland were minimal.

Now, spoofer Martin says it's up to the FAI, not government, to decide about israel.

[Thomas Fazi @battleforeurope]

Crazy that this is getting barely any coverage. This year’s European Press Prize was just awarded to an investigative report by the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant. It is entitled “What the Wounds Tell” and in it the journalists Maud Effting and Willem Feenstra document the cases of 114 children in Gaza under the age of 15 who were struck by a single bullet to the head or chest. Almost all of them died or were left severely disabled. They chose to document only the cases of boys and girls under the age of 15 (though often much younger: aged 3, 4 or 7) because these are children who can be immediately identified as such. “A single bullet in these parts of the body is a clear indication that these children were deliberately targeted“, the two journalists write.

This is the article: https://t.co/YkZrpqBWBQ

[RTÉ News @rtenews]

Sinn Féin, the Social Democrats and Labour have all confirmed they will support two Dáil motions due next week calling for Ireland's upcoming senior men's football international against Israel to be called off

https://t.co/rReRrcJkn0

[ZazaFL @ZazaFL]

"Israeli gunfire" did not kill this baby, an Israeli soldier did.
It's called murder.

[Markie 🇮🇪 @MarkAgitprop]

Wow, fair play to Richie Sadlier on RTÉ this evening on calls for Ireland to boycott the upcoming fixture against Israel #StopTheGame

[Mick Caul @caulmick]

Tanaiste, your Government must withdraw support of the match going ahead -@PearseDoherty

#StopTheGame #Dáil #FAI
28/05/26

[Daniel Lambert @dlLambo]

Richie Sadlier👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

"It's baffling to me, how...it is controversial or contentious or objectionable that someone suggests...do you know what maybe let's not play football against them.

Maybe instead of playing a match against them, maybe let's not play a match."

[liam cunningham @liamcunningham1]

Without Services the legislation is worthless. It’s finger wagging, nothing more.
A pathetic attempt to placate the nation.
An insult to anyone who wants nothing to do with the genocidal regime.

[Frances Black @frances_black]

Lots of work to do in the next few weeks and a big challenge ahead! 🇵🇸🇵🇸

What Govt have announced today is essentially a partial ban on trade with the illegal Israeli settlements. Seeking to ban the import of physical goods like fruit and vegetables, shamefully stolen from Palestinian farmers in the occupied West Bank, is important and necessary and was included in my original legislation. But it's not enough. It omits the majority of Irish trade, in intangible services like tech and IT, which would greatly undermines the scope of the legislation. Govt still haven’t given any coherent, detailed justification for this. We need to see that in the Dáil urgently.
Last year, the Oireachtas Foreign Affairs Committee spent weeks listening to officials and legal experts on this issue, and voted unanimously, including Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil members, that the ban should be comprehensive and include all trade, both goods and services. That is the standard set in the original Occupied Territories Bill which I tabled, and it’s what the International Court of Justice has clearly said is required under international law. It’s deeply disappointing that the Govt seems to be disregarding this, but it’s not too late for them to do what’s necessary. When the Bill finally hits the floor of the Dáil in the coming weeks I will be working with all opposition parties to table amendments to include services. That has been my clear position since 2018 and I'll do everything in my power to make it happen.

[Ciaran Tierney @ciarantierney]

This @MichealMartinTD

- has blocked a bill to ban illegal settlement goods for eight years

- invited the ambassador of #Israel to his party's annual conference during the genocide

- did a PR "photo op" of some Israeli roof damage just a few minutes from the #Gaza slaughter

[Abier @abierkhatib]

“As a mother and a doctor and an Irish citizen, this barbaric cruel regime must be disbanded”

Margaret Connolly

[Niamh Ní Cheallaigh 🕊🇵🇸🌻🇮🇪♿️ @CheallaighNiamh]

The government is only willing to block goods from the Occupied Territories. And this is only because of public backlash. They still refuse to block services. We should NOT be trading with this genocidal state at all.
#BoycottDivestSanctionIsraelNow

[Caoimhe McDermott @qweeva]

@SimonHarrisTD And yet as Foreign minister you promised the electorate the OTB would be passed and that it was in the program for government. Yet 8 years of diluting and stalling clearly shows you up as the hypocritical fraudulent liar you are. All words and zero action.

[Daniel Lambert @dlLambo]

The outrage shown by world leaders towards the treatment of the flotilla activists is right and proper.

What is unforgivable is their total lack of any actions/words on the unimaginably brutal treatment of the thousands of Palestinian men women & children taken hostage by Israel

[Richard Boyd Barrett @RBoydBarrett]

If you are so "appalled and shocked" by the treatment of the flotilla activists why did the government walk into the Dáil after issuing this statement and vote against sanctioning Israel when the same flotilla activists had explicitly called on you to support the sanctions bill?

[Abubaker Abed @AbubakerAbedW]

May those who voted against it face justice and never find a moment of peace in their lives.

This is the Irish government. It’s appalling beyond words.