{"id":459046,"date":"2026-05-20T21:37:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T21:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/459046\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T21:37:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T21:37:10","slug":"bride-and-groom-join-pro-palestine-protest-in-dublin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/459046\/","title":{"rendered":"Bride and groom join pro-Palestine protest in Dublin"},"content":{"rendered":"

A bride and groom joined a demonstration in support of a bill that proposes economic sanctions on Israel in Dublin on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Newlyweds Ellen Malone and Roberto Macari from Dublin stopped by the rally outside Leinster House in their suit and gown.<\/p>\n

The protest was organised by People Before Profit as their bill, the Sanctions Against the State of Israel Bill, came before the D\u00e1il.<\/p>\n

It proposes to prohibit all trade, investment, financial dealings and state-linked economic activity with Israel.<\/p>\n

\"EllenEllen Malone and Roberto Macari stopped by a pro-Palestine protest outside Leinster House in Dublin on Tuesday (Bairbre Holmes\/PA)<\/p>\n

What is happening in Palestine \u201cputs into perspective what\u2019s really important\u201d, the new Mrs Macari said.<\/p>\n

Mr Macari said: \u201cWe\u2019re known as the nation that\u2019s been through similar \u2026 it\u2019s always good to show your support.\u201d<\/p>\n

The couple are \u201cwith each other\u201d on the subject, he added.<\/p>\n

Mrs Macari also said she hoped Dr Margaret Connolly, the President\u2019s sister, would be released from Israeli detention.<\/p>\n

Dr Connolly is one of at least 14 Irish people, taking part in the global sumud flotilla, who are being held by Israel after their boats were intercepted, flotilla organisers say.<\/p>\n

Foreign Affairs Minister Helen McEntee previously told the D\u00e1il the sanctions bill would amount to a blanket prohibition on trade in all goods and certain services between Ireland and Israel.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Government does not support that approach, although we fully recognise the right of individuals and indeed organisations to make their own decisions in this regard,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

A previous separate bill, the Occupied Territories Bill, which would ban trade from illegal Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, has not been enacted despite being proposed in 2018.<\/p>\n

\"NorthMinister of Foreign Affairs Helen McEntee (Brian Lawless\/PA)<\/p>\n

Ms McEntee said on Monday she hoped there would be an EU vote on trade with the Occupied Palestinian Territories and said it would have a \u201cgreater impact\u201d than if Ireland acted alone.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Press Association at the demonstration, People Before Profit leader Richard Boyd Barrett said the Government is \u201chiding behind\u201d Europe.<\/p>\n

He said the \u201cimpunity\u201d Israel has been granted by governments has \u201cemboldened them\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t see any prospect of countries like Germany ending their complicity with the state of Israel,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s countries like Germany are blocking any action by the European Union.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSo governments like ours, if they\u2019re serious about being appalled at the atrocities being committed by Israel, they need to act, and Spain and Slovenia have acted, so why can\u2019t our government act?\u201d<\/p>\n

Speakers at the rally included opposition politicians and Game of Thrones actor Liam Cunningham, who led the crowd in a chant of \u201cFree Palestine\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A bride and groom joined a demonstration in support of a bill that proposes economic sanctions on Israel…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459047,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-459046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459046","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=459046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}