Search Results for 'Gaza'

Human dynamo Lelia Doolan proved that age is just a number when she marked her 90th birthday with a weekend sky dive from a plane flying over Offaly.

"Is that a rub or a scrub?" Marie Curran's husband jokingly asks her when she washes the dishes. That simple chore can be a mammoth task for the 43-year-old Waterford woman who was diagnosed with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) in 2012.

The Ahmadiyya Muslim Association Ireland welcomed guests from diverse backgrounds to the Maryam Mosque in Galway for a special event on Sunday last for the Mosque Open Day and 16th Interfaith Conference. Under the theme, ‘The Prophets: A Covenant with God’, this gathering served as a platform for dialogue and understanding.

Fergal Landy, Labour’s Midlands North-West candidate for the upcoming European elections, has urged the University of Galway to ensure a thorough and speedy review of its links with Israeli academic institutions in the face of an ongoing war in Gaza that has seen thousands of civilians killed and injured, as well as deliberate attacks on hospitals, food supplies, schools and universities.

A fundraiser to help raise funds for Galway-based artist Mohamed Alkurdi, a young Palestinian from Gaza, to get his family out of Gaza will take place on Sunday, April 21 in Nun’s Island Arts Centre.

Two members of Galway Palestine Solidarity Campaign were amongst a group of three activists arrested by Gardaí on Saturday, March 30, following an attempt to approach a United States Air Force military aircraft that had landed in Shannon Airport.

Local Minister of State, Deputy Peter Burke, recently returned from his St Patrick’s Day Government duties in Atlanta and Savannah, Georgia, where he met with diaspora from the constituency of Longford/Westmeath.

Irish Quaker Faith in Action, in conjunction with Islamic Relief, will hold a street collection for the people of Gaza in Galway City this Saturday March 9.

Musical theatre composer, therapist and political activist Daniel Maté will speak at an event in Galway this month, including a blend of traditional Irish and Palestinian music.

When Sabina Higgins welcomes you into her private office before a long-scheduled interview, immaculately turned out in an azure, roll-neck woollen dress with anti-war and global sustainability badges pinned to her shoulder, you know she means business.