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Palestine campaigners protesting scandalous Israel match occupy Irish Department of Sport

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Palestine campaigners protesting scandalous Israel match occupy Irish Department of Sport

Irish anti-genocide activists have boldly occupied the Department of Sport’s headquarters in Dublin. The campaigners did so in opposition to the Football Association of Ireland’s (FAI) disgraceful decision to proceed with fixtures against apartheid ‘Israel’, the illegitimate land theft project occupying historic Palestine. In a statement, League of Ireland Fans for Palestine, a key player in the Stop The Game campaign, said: [The action] is part of a continuing protest which will intensify until these two shameful fixtures have been stopped. The Government has placed pressure on the FAI, who are also culpable, to fulfil these fixtures. Taoiseach Micheal Martin was…

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Irish government disgraces itself with refusal of Gaza study visas

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Irish government disgraces itself with refusal of Gaza study visas

In a move that is as farcical as it is shameful, Irish immigration authorities have refused large numbers of study visas for students from Gaza seeking to enrol at universities. RTΓ‰ say that: …upwards of 20 Gazan students, who have all been accepted onto fully funded scholarships for third-level courses, have had their visa applications turned down by Irish immigration authorities. Others are awaiting outcomes. The farce lies in the nature of the refusal letters, which read like a sort of cruel joke. RTΓ‰ reports the reasons given for refusing applications to study include: …not supplying original bank statements, a failure…

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Greyhound racing supporter tells activists β€˜We’ll blow all our dogs away’

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Greyhound racing supporter tells activists β€˜We’ll blow all our dogs away’

The pantomime of cruelty known as greyhound racing is slowly fading away, emitting a death rattle that matches the unpleasantness of what preceded it. New Zealand has now banned the sport and Auckland’s Manukau Stadium held its final parade of sadism on 26 July. The country will permit no further greyhound racing after 1 August. One supporter was finally prepared to offer some transparency into the notoriously opaque sport, telling activists who oppose the cruelty: On Monday we’re gonna blow all our dogs away. Fuck you. Owners of greyhounds abused for racing have been found to massacre their dogs in vast…

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Activists target Allied Irish Bank over potential deal with Israeli tech firm

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Activists target Allied Irish Bank over potential deal with Israeli tech firm

Activists across Ireland have launched a wave of protests against Allied Irish Bank (AIB) over the company’s disgraceful plans to sign a Β£1.2 million deal with genocide-linked ‘Israeli‘ cybersecurity firm SNYK. Pro-Palestine group, Your Tech Their Deaths, released a compilation video publicising recent actions against the bank. It shows activists from across the island entering Allied Irish BankΒ premises. Highlighting the effectiveness of direct action, in some cases the bank responded by shutting branches down. Your Tech Your Deaths founder, Jude Farrell, told the Canary that activists from various groups hit 11 Allied Irish Bank branches in the last week. She said:…

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Poll shows nine in 10 families feel summer money pressures

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Poll shows nine in 10 families feel summer money pressures

The vast majority of parents in Britain and the north of Ireland feel “financial and emotional pressure” during the summer, according to research carried out by Save the Children. The charity polled 2,000 parents and found 88% are struggling with money worries during the long days, triggered by factors like added childcare costs and the pressure to take their children on holidays abroad. Labour has made some minor inroads into tackling poverty, but many of its measures have been inadequate given the scale of the crisis. Save the Children‘s executive director for UK impact, Dan Paskins, said: No parent should be…

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Woeful HMRC’s 90% error rate on north of Ireland child benefit grab

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Woeful HMRC’s 90% error rate on north of Ireland child benefit grab

Inept HMRC officials got it wrong nine times out of ten when attempting to heartlessly claw back child benefit payments from north of Ireland claimants. That’s according to a new report from the Detail. They reveal that out of the 826 families the bean counters thought were on the take: …at least 742 of these were subsequently confirmed to be eligible for Child Benefit. Only 81 were determined to have been incorrectly receiving Child Benefit, while enquiries remain open in three cases. The Canary previously reported on this scandal last year. Back then we explained HMRC’s cock-up thusly: The error occurred…

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12 July carnival of hate and destruction ends with calls for change

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12 July carnival of hate and destruction ends with calls for change

Another 12 July commemoration has now passed in the north of Ireland, leaving behind a trail of bile, death, pollution and charred remains of homes. The yearly knuckle-dragging is a sectarian festival marking the Battle of the Boyne in 1690, in which Protestant king, William III, defeated Catholic king, James II. The hate-fest lasted longer than usual, with bonfire groups lighting some pyres on 9 July, and parades not taking place until 13 July due to 12 July falling on a Sunday this year. The first major disgrace was the Moygashel Bonfire Association’s torching of a replica mosque. Deputy leader of…

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Irish government steps up its funding of genocide-backing Palantir

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Irish government steps up its funding of genocide-backing Palantir

MicheΓ‘l Martin’s toxic government has doubled down on backing one of the world’s most nakedly criminal corporations, by allowing the Irish Strategic Investment Fund (ISIF) to increase its shares in the murderous Palantir. The Ditch reports the following: The Irish Strategic Investment Fund (ISIF) held 22,073 shares in Palantir valued at €3.34 million at the end of 2025, according to the National Treasury Management Agency’s (NTMA) annual report published yesterday. ISIF’s annual report for the previous year showed a lower holding of 13,060 shares, for a total of just under €1 million euros. So as Palantir’s appalling activities have become increasingly…

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Mosque replica on loyalist bonfire reveals moribund β€˜culture’ circling the drain

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Mosque replica on loyalist bonfire reveals moribund β€˜culture’ circling the drain

Loyalists in the village of Moygashel have torched a replica of a mosque, sparking predictable outrage. There’s little question the action was a grotesque, hateful display, and such sentiments represent a real material threat to Muslims, as recent racist pogroms prove. What the blaze truly shows, however, is a dead-end loyalist culture that will ultimately burn itself out through its own bigotry and parochialism. Its only hope may lie in the embrace of its core tenets by reactionaries beyond the north of Ireland. This is perhaps the punt being taken by the pyromaniacs of the County Tyrone village, and those elsewhere…

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Irish football bosses continue Israel appeasement with vote to fulfil fixtures

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Irish football bosses continue Israel appeasement with vote to fulfil fixtures

The Football Association of Ireland (FAI) has taken a fresh step towards historic ignominy by pushing through a vote to fulfil its Nations League fixtures against the genocidal apartheid entity of ‘Israel’. In a statement, the FAI explained: At an Extraordinary General Meeting on Wednesday, July 8th, members were asked to vote on the following ordinary motion: β€œWhile acknowledging the strength of feeling regarding support for Palestine and the upcoming UEFA Men’s Nations League fixtures, that the members recognise the profound impact that any non-fulfilment of UEFA fixtures would have on Irish football as a whole and on its future development,…

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Shameful Sinn FΓ©in allow extension of F-35 warplane factory to proceed

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Shameful Sinn FΓ©in allow extension of F-35 warplane factory to proceed

In a move that reveals the party’s pro-Palestine sentiment to be entirely hollow, Sinn FΓ©in have allowed an extension to a north of Ireland factory producing components for F-35 warplanes. So-called ‘Israel’ has used the jets extensively to murder civilians in its genocidal assault on Gaza. The factory in question is Moyola Precision Engineering in Castledawson, a village within Mid Ulster District Council (MUDC) boundaries. On 7 July, the council’s 16-member planning committee shamefully voted to permit the enlargement of the illegal factory. As might be expected by the region’s leading supporter of genocide, all five Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) councillors…

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Poll shows alarming support in north of Ireland for racist rioters

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Poll shows alarming support in north of Ireland for racist rioters

Research group More In Common (MiC) has published the shocking result of a poll showing that more than 1 in 6 of the north of Ireland’s population are unconcerned about racist rioters burning migrants out of their homes. Extent of racist attitudes in the north of Ireland MiC asked participants the following: In Belfast, some homes and businesses belonging to migrants have been set on fire or attacked. How concerned are you, if at all, about people being forced out of their homes or businesses in Northern Ireland because of their nationality or ethnic background? 13% of respondents said they were…

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Israeli policeman throws grenade into car with Palestinians inside

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Israeli policeman throws grenade into car with Palestinians inside

Content warning: This article contains videos with graphic footage of Israeli violence Shocking footage has emerged featuring an ‘Israeli’ border police officer throwing a stun grenade into a car with at least three Palestinians inside. The video, recorded in East Jerusalem, shows a uniformed apartheid enforcer looming over the driver beside his open door. The brutish goon then suddenly chucks a grenade into the vehicle and presses against the door to prevent the driver escaping. Χ©Χ•Χ˜Χ¨ ΧžΧ’"Χ‘ ΧžΧ©ΧœΧ™Χš Χ¨Χ™ΧžΧ•ΧŸ לΧͺΧ•Χš Χ¨Χ›Χ‘ Χ©Χ‘Χ• Χ©Χ Χ™ Χ€ΧœΧ‘Χ˜Χ™Χ Χ™Χ Χ•ΧžΧ•Χ Χ’ ΧžΧ”Χ ΧœΧ”Χ™ΧžΧœΧ˜. Χ©Χ™ΧžΧ•Χ© ΧœΧ€Χ™ Χ‘' 27א pic.twitter.com/bk24P4UoRM — הארΧ₯ Χ—Χ“Χ©Χ•Χͺ (@haaretznewsvid) July 6, 2026 Two passengers…

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PSNI slammed for paramilitary policing cutbacks

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PSNI slammed for paramilitary policing cutbacks

Anti-racist group End Deportations Belfast (EDB) has strongly criticised the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) for failing to reallocate resources to tackling paramilitary violence. This comes in the wake of violent racist pogroms carried out by loyalist mobs, which the PSNI now confirm paramilitaries played a role in coordinating. As EDB note, in 2025 the PSNI chose to “collapse one of the three PCTF [Paramilitary Crime Task Force] investigative teams“. This followed Stormont’s decision to cut funding to the anti-paramilitary group by 21% for 2024/25. Upon the launch of the PCTF in 2017, the British National Crime Agency (NCA) described…

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People power works: evil Thiel’s Ireland retreat cancelled after campaign

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People power works: evil Thiel’s Ireland retreat cancelled after campaign

In a sign of how hollow power can be once confronted, a Wicklow hotel has cancelled a Peter Thiel led event after a relatively brief campaign from Irish activists. A collection of the world’s most despicable ruling class parasites were set to infest the Powerscourt Hotel as part of a conference run by a secretive group called Dialog. Co-founded by tyranny advocate and genocide backer Thiel in 2006, Dialog were set to use the meeting just south of Dublin to discuss topics entitled Navigating WWIII, Battlefield Technologies and Build-a-Cult. That list of talks gets even more sinister when you know Dialog’s…

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Sinn FΓ©in confirm intention to back continuation of cruel, colonial hare coursing

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Sinn FΓ©in confirm intention to back continuation of cruel, colonial hare coursing

Sinn FΓ©in, ever keen to present itself as the vanguard of opposing illegitimate British presence in Ireland, have confirmed they will vote against banning the barbaric colonial practice of hare coursing. Hare coursing involves a wild hare first being captured, a cruel and traumatising ordeal in itself. Organisers then trap the creature in an enclosure and set greyhounds in chase after it. The dogs are muzzled, but still frequently injure hares by crushing them or hurling them into the air. Vets often kill injured hares after an event. Prior to rambling incoherently in the DΓ‘il in defence of the so-called ‘sport’,…

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New research shows at least 3.3 million suffered under Dutch slavery

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New research shows at least 3.3 million suffered under Dutch slavery

Dutch investigative journalist Leendert van der Valk has revealed that the minimum number of people enslaved by the Netherlands in the transatlantic slavery system is a shocking 3.3 million. The figure is five times higher than the previous number of 600,000 commonly cited in the country. That’s the low-end estimate – he said Dutch slavers may have stolen the freedom of up to 5.3 million people. The Guardian note that King Willem-Alexander and then prime minister Mark Rutte have previously used the much lower number when apologising for the Dutch role in the hideous trade in human beings. Van der Valk…

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Starmer issues apology on forced adoptions, but Labour still failing families

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Starmer issues apology on forced adoptions, but Labour still failing families

British prime minister Keir Starmer issued an apology on Thursday July 2 for the state’s role in forced adoptions over multiple decades. It rings hollow, however, given the man anti-poverty campaigners christened ‘Kid Starver’ continues to fail British families. Forced adoption is the practice of taking a child from parents without their full consent, and transferring that child to a foster family. The British state funded the system which between 1949 and 1976 resulted in the forced adoption of 185,000 children. It was often mothers who had given birth outside of marriage who were victims of the cruel practice. Social norms…

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Ireland begins EU presidency as protesters denounce warmongering bloc

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Ireland begins EU presidency as protesters denounce warmongering bloc

On Wednesday July 1, Ireland marked the start of its presidency of the Council of the European Union with an event in Dublin, attended by heads of state from around the European continent. However, not far away in the same city, protesters were highlighting what the EU really stands for currently – warmongering, backing genocide, and enabling of the far-right. The Council serves to represent the national governments of each member state, acting as a basis for national ministers to negotiate and adopt EU laws. Roughly equivalent to the Senate in Ireland or the United States, it shares legislative and budgetary…

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Vile Katie Hopkins celebrates Dublin mosque arson attack

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Vile Katie Hopkins celebrates Dublin mosque arson attack

The reliably horrid Katie Hopkins is at it again, this time cheering on scenes of a burning mosque following an arson attack in Dublin. Hopkins put out the following on X: Terrible fire at a mosque in Dublin. Climate change is a shocking thing. God bless the True Irish pic.twitter.com/kbVkOOSWtA — Katie Hopkins (@KTHopkins) June 29, 2026 Needless to say, the serial hatemonger doesn’t actually care about the climate breakdown endangering us all. She has made light of this existential threat to humanity numerous times: Batshit Bonkers Britain 3 Feb Climate is the new Covid. Designed to make us smaller &…

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