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Taoiseach Micheal Martin speaking to the media at Burlington Plaza, Dublin about the impact of tariff uncertainty on budgetary planning. Picture date: Wednesday July 16, 2025.

Taoiseach criticises US diplomat over Israel import law

On October 7 2023, Hamas terrorists killed more than 1,000 people in southern Israel - it mustn't be forgotten how barbaric that day was

Phelim McAleer: Ireland should keep in mind how dependent it is on US

Morning View

Editorial: At last, backlash in the United States against Irish exceptionalism

Kneecap published a picture of themselves partying with actor Jamie Dornan on social media. Picture: Instagram

MP to Kneecap: Say all that again in court

Kneecap performing on the West Holts Stage during the Glastonbury Festival on Saturday. Photo: Yui Mok/PA Wire

BBC defends putting Kneecap on Glasto iPlayer - cutting lyrics, but with attacks

Rapper Mo Chara, currently facing a terror charge, performs on the West Holts Stage during the Glastonbury Festival. Photo: Ben Birchall/PA Wire

Kneecap state government enabling genocide, brand Israel war criminals at Glasto

Trump likes a winner, so he delivered the coup de grâce by eradicating the nuclear threat. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Ruth Dudley Edwards: Trump has done the West’s vital dirty work in Iran

Northern Ireland is unusually dependent on oil for home heating: according to the 2021 Census almost one half of households were entirely dependent on oil

Esmond Birnie: Rising global oil prices another blow to NI economy

Martine McCullough and Sue Pentel outside Musgrave Street police station in Belfast for a prearranged police interview after the pair were arrested earlier this year at a pro-Palestine protest outside a Barclays bank on suspicion of criminal damage. Picture date: Wednesday June 25, 2025

Grandmother arrested at pro-Palestine protest ‘proud to keep demonstrating’

Donald Trump’s actions against Iran have led him to emerge victorious and stronger. His domestic enemies and Iran are real losers

Phelim McAleer: Isolationists shedding no tears over destruction in Iran

Hamid Savar pictured protesting for political change in his home country of Iran, in front of Belfast City Hall in 2023.

Iranian: US and Israel right to attack Iran's nuclear programme

The heaquarters of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, Assembly Buildings in Belfast.

'Iranians in Belfast want regime change – but fear for families'

People across the world have been taking part in protests against the US strikes on Iran

Letter: Starmer must be sure of Iran threat

Morning View

Editorial: There was no easy option with regard to Iran

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Air Force Gen. Dan Caine discusses the mission details of a strike on Iran during a news conference at the Pentagon

US and Israel gone to 'extraordinary lengths' to avoid casualties: TUV

This satellite picture by Planet Labs PBC shows Iran's underground nuclear enrichment site at Fordo after a U.S. airstrike targeted the facility Sunday, June 22, 2025. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)

DUP, UUP and TUV defend USA's decision to bomb Iran's nuclear programme
Representatives from three unionist parties in Northern Ireland have defended United States’ decision to bomb Iran’s nuclear programme.
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Strangford MP Jim Shannon has commented on the escalation of conflict in the Middle East

Jim Shannon MP believes United States were right to bomb Iran's nuclear sites

Other images supporting Iran posted by the group this week on Facebook

DUP MLA hits out at dissident group Saoradh for flying the flag of Iran

Morning View

Editorial: How right the German leader is about Tehran

Ali Hosseini Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, regards Israel as a cancer, and, more importantly, wants the world rid of all Jews and Zionists

Ruth Dudley Edwards: I never had the luxury of being a pacifist

President Donald Trump arrives on Air Force One at Calgary International Airport, Sunday, June 15, 2025, in Calgary, Canada, ahead of the G7 Summit. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

UK on alert to bring citizens back from Israel

Palestinians carry bags containing food and humanitarian aid packages delivered by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a U.S.-backed organization, in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, on Monday

Letter: Unionism needs to reassess its response to Israel

Attendees at the 'Great March for Gaza' event pictured in Newry. (Photo: Dáire Hughes MP on X)

Four arrests and three cautions following pro-Gaza march

Morning View

Editorial: Now Queen’s University Belfast disgraces itself on Israel too

Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton, Queen's University Belfast Chancellor, arriving at a Young Enterprise event at the University last year. QUB says it has divested itself of Israeli linked investments but has been asked if it will now also sever ties with Clinton also, who is seen by some as 'a friend of Israel'.

'Will QUB divest friend of Israel Hilary Clinton?'

Trinity College Dublin has taken a decision to cut all ties with Israeli organisations. Pictured are protesters outside the university last May, where students created a protest encampment protest over the Gaza conflict.

Trinity College decison to boycott Israel is ‘pandering’

A recent poll showed 74% of the Irish public support the Occupied Territories Bill, which will prevent Ireland from trading in goods and services with any business in Israeli settlements in the West Bank

Ruth Dudley Edwards: Republic’s apparent loathing of Jews will have consequences
I was at a party in London on Tuesday where Israel and Ireland came up in conversation several times. There was curiosity about why the Irish appeared to loathe Jews.
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Church of Ireland Archbishop John McDowell, left, and Archbishop Michael Jackson, released a hard hitting statement on Gaza.

Church of Ireland woman challenges archbishops on Gaza

Jeremiah 30 v3 contains a promise that Israel will be brought back to settle in the land given to them by God

Letter: Attempting to thwart God’s plan is not advised

Michael Black, Deputy Chair of the Belfast Jewish Community, believes Israel's allies should critisize it in private, to avoid emboldening terrorist groups such as Hamas.

Belfast Jewish leader affirms Kemi’s criticism of Starmer

More than 1,200 people were killed in the October 2023 attack by Hamas

Letter: After all the suffering, Israel deserves peace

Israeli singer Yuval Raphael came second in the Eurovision Song Conest, thanks in part to strong support from the Irish public and jury. She is a survivor of the October 7 attack on Israel by Hamas.

'Irish support helped Israel secure second in Eurovision'

Yuval Raphael, representing Israel at the Eurovision Song Contest, is a survivor of the Hamas massacre at the Nova music festival on October 7. Photo: Getty

Ex-Irish Minister slams RTE over Israel Eurovision protest

Kneecap performing at the SSE Arena in Belfast. Picture date: Saturday December 21, 2024.

Kneecap's claim of genocide by Israel is 'spurious'

Letters to editor

Letter: Tory leaders do not get to decide on who gets prosecuted

Fans of Irish Hip Hop trio Kneecap wait for the band to perform during the 2025 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival at Empire Polo Club on April 11, 2025 in Indio, California. (Photo by VALERIE MACON / AFP)

Kneecap US visas understood to be no longer be valid ahead of US October tour

Even our slow-learning prime minister, who thought women could have penises, has bowed to the Supreme Court. Sir Keir Starmer is grilled on gender in the House of Commons Photo: House of Commons/PA Wire

Ruth Dudley Edwards: PM sees what Adam and Eve did- men are men, women are women

The Christian Easter message is one of hope, even if we find this difficult to find in our hearts

Alf McCreary: World has changed, but message of the Gospel is still the same

Letters to editor

Letter: British governments present and recent helped create Syrian death squads

United Nations expert Francesca Albanese says the Republic of Ireland has an obligation to comply with the provisions of the Occupied Territories Bill, even without having legislation enacted.

Republic of Ireland obliged to comply with Occupied Territories Bill – UN expert

Donald Trump with Emma Little-Pengelly and Gordon Lyons at the Capitol Hill St Patrick's Day lunch event on Wednesday March 12 2025. Picture by Kelvin Boyes/Press Eye

‘Getting in there first’ key benefit of USA St Patrick's Day trip – DUP's Lyons

The BBC recently scrapped its Gaza: How to Survive a War Zone documentary after it emerged its 13-year-old narrator was the son of a Hamas official. It said it has 'no plans to broadcast the programme again in its current form'

Letter: Censorship of war coverage is damaging reputation of BBC

The scale of destruction is laid bare at apartment blocks in Yarmouk camp outside Damascus, Syria, reduced to rubble following an airstrike

Letter: Aggression is rewarded with relative silence

On October 7, 2023, the militant group Hamas launched what would become the deadliest terrorist attack in Israeli history. Some 1,200 civilians were murdered

Letter: Turning a blind eye to Israel

Skydiving Tom Forsythe, 75, hopes to raise at least £1,000 for charity.

Daredevil pensioner takes a giant leap: Tom, 75, becomes charity skydiver

The aftermath of the Clonoe ambush, showing the IRA's heavy machine gun mounted on the lorry. Four Provisional IRA member were shot dead by soldiers minutes after they had carried out a gun attack on Coalisland RUC station in February 1992

Letter: Republican movement was either in a war or not

Vice President JD Vance with President Donald Trump at their inauguration in January in Washington, DC. Ireland is allowed always to get a special reception at the White House while being utterly at odds with America on issues such as Iran (Photo Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Ben Lowry: I hope, but doubt, unionists are able to benefit from SF's US boycott

TUV vice-chairman, Allister Kyle, accuses the Republic of 'sickening hypocrisy' over their dismissal of Israel's call for them to take in Palestinian refugees.

Republic's 'sickening hypocrisy' for rubbishing Palestine refugee call

Morning View

Editorial: America rejects outrageous bid to arrest Netanyahu

There has been great unrest between Israel and Gaza since the Hamas terror attack on October 7, 2023

Letter: Israel is claiming back the land promised to it

President of Ireland Michael D Higgins appears to have forgotten the hideous atrocities of October 7, 2023, when Hamas launched their attack on Israel, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards

Ruth Dudley Edwards: Higgins’ persistence over Israel is damaging relations

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Israel’s Netanyahu to visit White House following invitation from Trump

Morning View

Editorial: An ill-timed criticism of Israel from President Higgins

Irish senator Frances Black drafted the Occupied Territories Bill in 2018 and has called on the Irish government not to dilute it, after it was dropped from the new government's plans in its current form.

Dublin drops ban on Israeli trade three days after publication

Left is Israeli-British citizen Ethan Godsi, who is studying at QUB. Centre is Khalil Lafi and right, Fawqia Lafi, the mother-in-law and brother-in-law of Belfast doctor Omar Alshaqaqi who were killed in an airstrike in Gaza last month.

Israeli and Palestinian give contrasting views of ceasefire deal

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