🇮🇪 BREAKING: Ireland WILL NOT participate in the Eurovision Song Contest 2027.
"RTÉ's position regarding participation in the Eurovision Song Contest remains unchanged. RTÉ will not participate in the 2027 Eurovision Song Contest, nor will RTÉ broadcast the competition."
"RTÉ feels that Ireland’s participation cannot be justified given the appalling and ongoing loss of lives in Gaza and the humanitarian crisis there which continues to put the lives of so many civilians at risk."
"RTÉ also remains deeply concerned by the continued denial of independent access to international journalists to the territory."
On the Six One News Minister McEntee spoke about being horrified at the treatment of Irish citizens and called for sanctions on Israel.
Two hours later she voted against sanctions on Israel.
Enough said.
Only in the twitterverse does a bunch of right wing conservative voters, protesting a right wing conservative government in Ireland...
... have something to do with ze left.
Irish "looney leftists": Professor, Professor, Professor, Professor, Professor, former Professor, Progressive Unionist.
Irish "non looney centrists": Jockey, Rose Of Tralee winner, football coach, football player, TV presenter, Eurovision host, ...
This is apartheid, plain and simple.
Palestinian prisoners already experience injustice in Israeli military courts, torture in Israeli prisons, and now executions legalized by the Israeli government.
No more genocide and no more ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.
Genuine question.
How can the EU not fully cut off Israel and sanction them now?
They've brought in a law that is without precedent and is indefensible.
A cruel, barbaric racist law to murder one ethnic group.
Surely this IS the red line?
The best way for the Irish Govt to object to the death penalty being brought in in Israel if to implement the Occupied Territories Bill including services, But this Govt under Martin and Harris are to cowardly.