https://znetwork.org/category/place/europe/ireland/ Independent Left News, Analysis, Vision and Strategy Wed, 31 Dec 2025 21:50:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://znetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cropped-Z_logo_512-32x32.png https://znetwork.org/category/place/europe/ireland/ 32 32 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/ireland-is-a-complicit-third-state-in-israels-genocide/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/ireland-is-a-complicit-third-state-in-israels-genocide/#respond Wed, 31 Dec 2025 20:56:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1292940 Since the start of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, the Irish people have been pounding the streets week after week in solidarity with Palestine, calling on their government to live up to promises made to implement the Occupied Territories Bill (OTB).  This is legislation that would prohibit the importation into Ireland of goods and services from [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/ireland-is-a-complicit-third-state-in-israels-genocide/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/irelands-presidential-election-was-a-left-wing-landslide/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/irelands-presidential-election-was-a-left-wing-landslide/#respond Thu, 30 Oct 2025 15:50:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1290639 Ireland’s presidential election was a resounding victory for the Left. Catherine Connolly, a left-wing independent backed by parties representing every shade of Irish left politics, from pale pink and light green to deep red, won 63.4 percent of the vote. This was more than twice the level of support for her main opponent, Heather Humphreys [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/irelands-presidential-election-was-a-left-wing-landslide/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/presidential-election-catherine-connolly-wins-an-historic-victory-for-the-left-in-ireland/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/presidential-election-catherine-connolly-wins-an-historic-victory-for-the-left-in-ireland/#comments Sun, 26 Oct 2025 13:43:41 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1290455 The combined forces of the political and media establishment threw everything they could at Connolly to try to stop the momentum behind her campaign. “Smear the bejaysus out of her”, as Ivan Yates [1] suggested, was the strategy deployed. Her trip to Syria, her employment of a Republican convicted of a gun crime, her comments in opposition [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/presidential-election-catherine-connolly-wins-an-historic-victory-for-the-left-in-ireland/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/irish-citizen-detained-by-berliner-polizei-outside-irish-embassy-for-speaking-irish/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/irish-citizen-detained-by-berliner-polizei-outside-irish-embassy-for-speaking-irish/#respond Fri, 25 Apr 2025 15:48:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1282937    On the morning of Wednesday the 16th of April, 2025, from 11:00 to 13:00, a group of protesters—primarily made up of Irish citizens living in Berlin—gathered outside the Embassy of Ireland, Berlin, to hold a registered protest.     The demonstration, titled ‘Ireland’s Complicit!’, was purposed to, among other things, demand the passing of the [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/irish-citizen-detained-by-berliner-polizei-outside-irish-embassy-for-speaking-irish/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/irish-police-use-force-arrest-8-mothers-for-protesting-against-gaza-genocide/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/irish-police-use-force-arrest-8-mothers-for-protesting-against-gaza-genocide/#respond Thu, 03 Apr 2025 15:46:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1281957 ‘Mothers against genocide’ group’s protest ‘forcibly broken up’ by Gardai as state continues its Jekyll and Hyde stance on Israel. At least eight Irish women have been arrested by Irish police after a ‘sleep out’ vigil outside the Irish Dáil parliament against Israel’s genocide in Gaza, with supporters saying that the Gardai used force to [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/irish-police-use-force-arrest-8-mothers-for-protesting-against-gaza-genocide/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/theres-a-hidden-history-of-us-support-for-irish-republicans/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/theres-a-hidden-history-of-us-support-for-irish-republicans/#respond Mon, 17 Mar 2025 15:04:33 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1281151 The Irish Northern Aid Committee — Noraid, as it was generally known — was accused of involvement in various activities to support the Irish Republican Army (IRA). Its alleged offences included purchasing M-60 rifles, paying for ships to cross the Atlantic with weapons cargo, and even robbing a Brink’s armored car of more than $7 [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/theres-a-hidden-history-of-us-support-for-irish-republicans/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/us-ambassador-warned-of-consequences-for-enacting-occupied-territories-bill/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/us-ambassador-warned-of-consequences-for-enacting-occupied-territories-bill/#respond Thu, 07 Nov 2024 16:58:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1274960 A senior US diplomat warned tánaiste Micheál Martin’s office and the taoiseach of “consequences” if government enacted the Occupied Territories Bill – 90 minutes before Martin issued a statement committing only to a “review” rather than enactment of the legislation. US Ambassador to Ireland Claire Cronin contacted several government offices last month, telling them she [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/us-ambassador-warned-of-consequences-for-enacting-occupied-territories-bill/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/as-idf-points-tanks-at-irish-peacekeepers-weapons-continue-to-illegally-fly-through-irish-territory/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/as-idf-points-tanks-at-irish-peacekeepers-weapons-continue-to-illegally-fly-through-irish-territory/#respond Thu, 17 Oct 2024 15:50:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1273811 Reported in partnership with the US’s Drop Site. At least two illegal flights bringing weapons to the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) travelled through Irish territory after the Israeli army pointed a tank at Irish peacekeepers in a show of aggression.  Though Ireland has 379 troops in Lebanon on peacekeeping duties, government hasn’t indicated it will seek to stop [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/as-idf-points-tanks-at-irish-peacekeepers-weapons-continue-to-illegally-fly-through-irish-territory/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/idf-in-outrageous-threat-to-irish-un-troops-in-lebanon/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/idf-in-outrageous-threat-to-irish-un-troops-in-lebanon/#respond Sat, 12 Oct 2024 15:15:27 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1273564 An Irish-Israeli diplomatic crisis has been defused after Israel withdrew its invasion force from firing positions metres from a U.N. post in south Lebanon staffed by Irish peacekeepers. Irish President Michael D. Higgins had called Israeli demands for U.N. peacekeepers to abandon their posts as its invading army crossed deeper into Lebanese sovereign territory “an [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/idf-in-outrageous-threat-to-irish-un-troops-in-lebanon/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-new-ireland-owned-and-run-by-the-ordinary-people-not-the-profiteers/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-new-ireland-owned-and-run-by-the-ordinary-people-not-the-profiteers/#respond Mon, 23 Sep 2024 16:30:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1272730 [This article is part of a series called Answering Ireland’s Call: Thoughts for a new republic (Freagairt ar Ghlaoch na hÉireann: Smaointe ar phoblacht nua). The series will publish articles discussing the reunification of Ireland but within the context of early 21st Century ills such as the climate crisis, capitalism and fascism. If you like what [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-new-ireland-owned-and-run-by-the-ordinary-people-not-the-profiteers/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/reunification-a-roadmap-to-eco-social-transformation-on-the-island-of-ireland/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/reunification-a-roadmap-to-eco-social-transformation-on-the-island-of-ireland/#respond Mon, 16 Sep 2024 13:40:39 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1272442 [This article is part of a series called Answering Ireland’s Call: Thoughts for a new republic (Freagairt ar Ghlaoch na hÉireann: Smaointe ar phoblacht nua). The series will publish articles discussing the reunification of Ireland but within the context of early 21st Century ills such as the climate crisis, capitalism and fascism. If you like what [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/reunification-a-roadmap-to-eco-social-transformation-on-the-island-of-ireland/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/environmental-justice-before-during-and-after-a-united-ireland/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/environmental-justice-before-during-and-after-a-united-ireland/#respond Mon, 09 Sep 2024 16:27:54 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1272118 [This article is part of a series called Answering Ireland’s Call: Thoughts for a new republic (Freagairt ar Ghlaoch na hÉireann: Smaointe ar phoblacht nua). The series will publish articles discussing the reunification of Ireland but within the context of early 21st Century ills such as the climate crisis, capitalism and fascism. If you like what [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/environmental-justice-before-during-and-after-a-united-ireland/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/role-of-the-irish-people-in-the-wider-world/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/role-of-the-irish-people-in-the-wider-world/#respond Mon, 02 Sep 2024 15:59:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1271723 [This article is part of a series called Answering Ireland’s Call: Thoughts for a new republic (Freagairt ar Ghlaoch na hÉireann: Smaointe ar phoblacht nua). The series will publish articles discussing the reunification of Ireland but within the context of early 21st Century ills such as the climate crisis, capitalism and fascism. If you like what [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/role-of-the-irish-people-in-the-wider-world/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-ireland-i-want-does-not-exist-yet/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-ireland-i-want-does-not-exist-yet/#respond Mon, 26 Aug 2024 13:46:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1271359 [This article is part of a series called Answering Ireland’s Call: Thoughts for a new republic (Freagairt ar Ghlaoch na hÉireann: Smaointe ar phoblacht nua). The series will publish articles discussing the reunification of Ireland but within the context of early 21st Century ills such as the climate crisis, capitalism and fascism. If you like [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-ireland-i-want-does-not-exist-yet/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/what-is-driving-the-rise-in-racism-and-fascism-in-ireland/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/what-is-driving-the-rise-in-racism-and-fascism-in-ireland/#respond Thu, 22 Aug 2024 17:18:45 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1271202 On 3 August 2024, Tricolours and Union flags were held aloft by racists and fascists at Belfast City Hall, united in prejudice, railing against the organization of a ‘Unity over Division’ rally by anti-racist community organisations and trade unions.  The far-right in Belfast was joined by agitators from Coolock in Dublin who have violently opposed [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/what-is-driving-the-rise-in-racism-and-fascism-in-ireland/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/ireland-and-immigration-2/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/ireland-and-immigration-2/#respond Wed, 14 Aug 2024 12:59:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1270780 [This article is part of a series called Answering Ireland’s Call: Thoughts for a new republic (Freagairt ar Ghlaoch na hÉireann: Smaointe ar phoblacht nua). The series will publish articles discussing the reunification of Ireland but within the context of early 21st Century ills such as the climate crisis, capitalism and fascism. If you like [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/ireland-and-immigration-2/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-new-ireland-socialist-internationalist-and-free/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-new-ireland-socialist-internationalist-and-free/#respond Mon, 05 Aug 2024 15:53:42 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1270424 [This article is part of a series called Answering Ireland’s Call: Thoughts for a new republic (Freagairt ar Ghlaoch na hÉireann: Smaointe ar phoblacht nua). The series will publish articles discussing the reunification of Ireland but within the context of early 21st Century ills such as the climate crisis, capitalism and fascism. If you like [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-new-ireland-socialist-internationalist-and-free/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/out-with-the-old-dreaming-of-a-different-ireland/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/out-with-the-old-dreaming-of-a-different-ireland/#respond Fri, 02 Aug 2024 16:30:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1270243 [This article is part of a series called Answering Ireland’s Call: Thoughts for a new republic (Freagairt ar Ghlaoch na hÉireann: Smaointe ar phoblacht nua). The series will publish articles discussing the reunification of Ireland but within the context of early 21st Century ills such as the climate crisis, capitalism and fascism. If you like [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/out-with-the-old-dreaming-of-a-different-ireland/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/king-cattle-and-direct-provision/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/king-cattle-and-direct-provision/#respond Thu, 25 Jul 2024 15:59:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1269785 Let me start with, like An tAthair Peadar O Laoghaire in Mo Scéal Féin, the Irish text book for the Intermediate Certificate in the 1970s, with one of my first memories. An tAthair Peadar O Laoghaire recounted a scary meeting with a cross goose down the lane from his house when he was three. I [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/king-cattle-and-direct-provision/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/clare-daly-young-voters-must-show-up/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/clare-daly-young-voters-must-show-up/#respond Thu, 27 Jun 2024 15:56:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1268523 Following Clare’s election defeat in Ireland, she discusses some of the reasons around the loss from the perspective in Ireland and some of the issues facing Europe.]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/clare-daly-young-voters-must-show-up/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/irish-lawmaker-recognizing-palestine-as-a-state-is-rooted-in-our-history-of-colonization-famine/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/irish-lawmaker-recognizing-palestine-as-a-state-is-rooted-in-our-history-of-colonization-famine/#respond Fri, 24 May 2024 16:22:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1266886 Three European nations have announced plans to recognize the State of Palestine, joining 143 other countries around the world in formal recognition. Leaders in Ireland, Norway and Spain cited a desire to support a political solution to the ongoing conflict in Gaza as the driving force behind the announcements, while Israel responded by recalling its [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/irish-lawmaker-recognizing-palestine-as-a-state-is-rooted-in-our-history-of-colonization-famine/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-victory-for-palestine-and-palestinian-solidarity-in-dublin/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-victory-for-palestine-and-palestinian-solidarity-in-dublin/#respond Thu, 23 May 2024 15:59:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1266823 On May 15, to commemorate the 76th anniversary of the Nakba and in solidarity with Palestinians, Dublin based, Irish football club Bohemian FC played host to the Palestinian national women’s team. It also marked the maiden game that the Palestine team had played in Europe. While the venue may have been the home of Bohemian [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-victory-for-palestine-and-palestinian-solidarity-in-dublin/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/inside-the-student-movement-that-forced-irelands-trinity-college-to-divest-from-israel/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/inside-the-student-movement-that-forced-irelands-trinity-college-to-divest-from-israel/#respond Sat, 18 May 2024 14:16:08 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1266544 Right after Dublin native Ben turned 16, he spent his summer vacations working at event companies that organized concerts and comedy shows. Little did he know that three years later, that experience would help him organize — with nearly a hundred of his peers — a major protest of Trinity College Dublin’s ties with Israel. [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/inside-the-student-movement-that-forced-irelands-trinity-college-to-divest-from-israel/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/ireland-is-full-of-berts/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/ireland-is-full-of-berts/#respond Wed, 15 May 2024 16:32:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1266374 [This article is part of a series called Answering Ireland’s Call: Thoughts for a new republic (Freagairt ar Ghlaoch na hÉireann: Smaointe ar phoblacht nua). The series will publish articles discussing the reunification of Ireland but within the context of early 21st Century ills such as the climate crisis, capitalism and fascism. If you like what [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/ireland-is-full-of-berts/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-country-that-tried-to-control-sex/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-country-that-tried-to-control-sex/#respond Mon, 15 Apr 2024 16:20:55 +0000 When the cultural historian Clair Wills was in graduate school at Oxford in the late 1980s, she became pregnant by accident. She was 25 and single, with little money and no job. Still, she decided to keep the baby. “By then, getting pregnant and keeping the baby was almost a tradition in our family,” she [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-country-that-tried-to-control-sex/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/enough-is-enough-ireland-joins-icj-genocide-case-against-israel/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/enough-is-enough-ireland-joins-icj-genocide-case-against-israel/#respond Thu, 28 Mar 2024 15:52:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1264289 “What we saw on October 7 in Israel, and what we are seeing in Gaza now, represents the blatant violation of international humanitarian law on a mass scale,” said one top Irish official. Citing Israel’s “blatant” human rights violations in Gaza, Ireland’s second-highest-ranking official said Wednesday that the country will join the South Africa-led genocide [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/enough-is-enough-ireland-joins-icj-genocide-case-against-israel/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/striking-while-the-irons-hot-unprecedented-strikes-in-the-north-of-ireland-but-can-they-lead-to-something-more/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/striking-while-the-irons-hot-unprecedented-strikes-in-the-north-of-ireland-but-can-they-lead-to-something-more/#comments Sat, 16 Mar 2024 12:09:25 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1263695 Throughout 2023 and into 2024, the North of Ireland [1] has witnessed the largest and most sustained public sector strikes in all of its jaundiced, gerrymandered 100-year history. The strikes are about pay for public sector workers. For several years now, public sector pay in the North has not kept pace with inflation. Real pay, [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/striking-while-the-irons-hot-unprecedented-strikes-in-the-north-of-ireland-but-can-they-lead-to-something-more/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/frogs-legs-and-lobster-thermidor-or-the-a-b-c-of-republican-strategy/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/frogs-legs-and-lobster-thermidor-or-the-a-b-c-of-republican-strategy/#respond Thu, 29 Feb 2024 16:49:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1262930 As a young man, I listened to a speech by Bernadette McAliskey the year before the signing of the Good Friday Agreement – the pinnacle of what became known as the ‘peace process’. McAliskey did not object to peace, she had notoriously been subtitled by the BBC in a 1992 interview, when she said: ‘No [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/frogs-legs-and-lobster-thermidor-or-the-a-b-c-of-republican-strategy/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/gaza-has-exposed-irelands-american-problem/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/gaza-has-exposed-irelands-american-problem/#respond Fri, 23 Feb 2024 18:05:07 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1262608 One of the dominant placards carried in the hundreds of Palestinian solidarity marches held in Ireland in recent weeks reads ‘No Shamrocks for Genocide Joe’, and pictures Irish Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, handing a crystal bowl of shamrocks to President Joe Biden in the Oval Office on St Patrick’s Day.  The message is clear: a ‘business-as-usual’ [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/gaza-has-exposed-irelands-american-problem/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/dublin-riots-the-social-engineering-of-xenophobia-in-ireland/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/dublin-riots-the-social-engineering-of-xenophobia-in-ireland/#respond Tue, 28 Nov 2023 17:39:18 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1258204 In these days of a genocidal bombing campaign in Gaza and a widespread blackout in both the mainstream media in the west, and on social media, the choice between a news blackout on Facebook and a polarized, all-or-nothing “discourse” on X, trying to make sense of anything happening in the world that you’re not directly [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/dublin-riots-the-social-engineering-of-xenophobia-in-ireland/feed/ 0