{"id":424733,"date":"2026-04-30T06:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T06:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/424733\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T06:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T06:52:09","slug":"president-connolly-hits-out-at-university-of-galway-over-controversial-israel-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/424733\/","title":{"rendered":"President Connolly hits out at University of Galway over controversial Israel links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Speech came a day before the Israeli military began raids on an aid flotilla headed for Gaza that includes the President\u2019s sister.\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"President Connolly made her remarks at the launch of the Dublin branch of University of Galway Alumni\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/LLY_GALWAY_ALUMNI_7.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">President Connolly made her remarks at the launch of the Dublin branch of University of Galway Alumni<\/p>\n<p>Fionn\u00e1n Sheahan and Alan Caulfield<\/p>\n<p>Today at 06:30<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">President Catherine Connolly has used a speech to University of Galway graduates to criticise the college over its ties to Israel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Her address came a day before the Israeli military last night began raids on an aid flotilla headed for Gaza that includes the President\u2019s sister.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Speech came a day before the Israeli military began raids on an aid flotilla headed for Gaza that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424734,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3656,2244,3774,97,4502,61,60,3410,43,5761],"class_list":["post-424733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-catherine-connolly","tag-eu","tag-fionnan-sheahan","tag-gaza","tag-hamas","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-israel","tag-news","tag-university-of-galway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}