ireland

Dublin’s anti-Israel war on history at Herzog Park may end up with Ireland losing

The row over attempts by councillors to rename the landmark commemorating the former president of Israel risks bringing international shame upon the city

By Michael Murphy

3 min read

Chaim Herzog as Israeli ambassador to the United Nations in 1978 before a security council session (Photo by Brian Alpert/Keystone/Getty Images)

Herzog Park was named in 1995 for Belfast-born and Dublin-raised Chaim Herzog (Photo: Google)

Ireland

Proposal to rename Dublin’s Herzog Park dropped after Taoiseach condemnation

By Jamie Shapiro

4 min read

Bob Vylan with Sinn Féin TD Mark Ward (Image: X/Mark Ward)

Ireland

Sinn Féin hosts anti-Israel band Bob Vylan despite police probe into ‘death to IDF’ concert

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read

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 football

Irish FA backs motion to ban Israel from European football

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

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)

Football

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

By Daniel Ben-David

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Ireland

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

By Jane Prinsley

3 min read

Ireland

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

By Jane Prinsley

2 min read

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

They said that “Ireland's participation would be unconscionable given the ongoing and appalling loss of lives in Gaza”

By JC Reporter

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September 11, 2025 17:23

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

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

The meeting between Simon Harris TD and representatives of Irish Jewry took place at the request of the minister’s office

By Daniel Ben-David

3 min read

September 3, 2025 17:28

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)

By Hen Mazzig

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

The U2 frontman released a statement that, in a few paragraphs, managed what so many public figures fail to do

3 min read

August 13, 2025 12:44

By Benny Morris

The Irish and Gaza

How Ireland became Europe’s most anti-Israel island

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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

3 min read

July 20, 2025 16:37

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

By David Cohen

6 min read

July 17, 2025 14:45

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

6 min read

July 8, 2025 11:56

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

2 min read

July 4, 2025 11:54

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

6 min read

May 1, 2025 12:39

Former Irish justice minister Alan Shatter (Image: Getty)

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ireland

Dublin’s anti-Israel war on history at Herzog Park may end up with Ireland losing

Proposal to rename Dublin’s Herzog Park dropped after Taoiseach condemnation

Sinn Féin hosts anti-Israel band Bob Vylan despite police probe into ‘death to IDF’ concert

Irish FA backs motion to ban Israel from European football

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

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

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

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