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A show of solidarity to the people of Palestine was a key motion at Galway County Council's October plenary meeting this week, with councillors unanimously passing a motion calling on the Government to enact the Occupied Territories Bill.

In a unanimous vote of all 16 councillors present in City Hall last Monday, a motion was carried that the City Council will not welcome any future visits to Galway by Netanyahu, Israel’s president Isaac Herzog, or ministers and ambassadors of the current administration after its military incursions into Lebanon.

Take your average nine-year-old now. Born in 2015. Five years before Covid...years before Ukraine, before Gaza and Israel, they have exprienced a change in the way the world has been.

An emergency rally in solidarity with the people of Palestine will take place in Galway city centre on Saturday, July 27, from 2.45pm.

University of Galway president, Professor Ciarán Ó hÓgartaigh has announced his decision to step down from the role in order to ‘pursue other interests’.

The names of hundreds upon hundreds of Palestinian children who have been murdered in Israel’s relentless assault on the tiny Gaza Strip since October were read out at a poignant vigil in Galway on Saturday afternoon.

A group of artists living on Inis Oirr projected the words ‘Free Palestine’ onto the Inis Oirr lighthouse last week to show their solidarity with the people of Palestine.

Galway historian and author Jackie Ui Chionna has been shortlisted for the esteemed Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography 2024 award for her book Queen of Codes, on the extraordinary life of Emily Anderson.

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.

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.