Ireland: Presidential Frontrunner Attacks Dublin for Failure to Sanction Israel

Source: US News & World Report

“The frontrunner to become Ireland’s next president has criticised the government for inaction on a planned law to impose sanctions on Israeli settlements in protest over Israel’s military campaign in Gaza. Catherine Connolly, an independent leftwing lawmaker backed by the main opposition Sinn Fein party, urged Dublin not to buckle to pressure from big U.S. companies by watering down the law and stopping just a trickle of trade in goods, not services. She was speaking before U.S. President Donald Trump said Israel and Hamas had reached a deal for a ceasefire in Gaza and a hostage release under his plan for ending the two-year-old war in the Palestinian enclave.” (10/09/25)

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