Ruth Coppinger told the conference the lack of action suggested an official view that “Palestinian lives are utterly worthless”, as she admonished the Taoiseach’s failure to criticise US foreign policy when he met Donald Trump on St Patrick’s Day. She also criticised the media for its generally positive coverage of the meeting. Iranian-Irish woman Farah Parvazi told the conference the left needed to avoid weighing the lives of Palestinians against those of Iranians when taking a position on the current war in the region. The Football Association of Ireland (FAI), he suggested, should not fulfil the men’s senior team’s Nation’s League fixtures against Israel later this year. But I still think the FAI should boycott the game.

Source: The Irish Times March 22, 2026 06:25 UTC