{"id":50891,"date":"2025-09-29T15:53:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T15:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/50891\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T15:53:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T15:53:12","slug":"aerospace-companys-dublin-office-attacked-over-alleged-links-to-israeli-arms-producer-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/50891\/","title":{"rendered":"Aerospace company\u2019s Dublin office attacked over alleged links to Israeli arms producer \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Garda<\/a> investigation has begun after pro-Palestinian<\/a> protesters caused \u201ccriminal damage\u201d to the south Dublin<\/a> office of a company over alleged ties to an Israeli<\/a> military manufacturer.<\/p>\n

Acra Control, a Dublin aerospace company founded by four DCU graduates in 1991, is a supplier of data-acquisition systems and networks for both defence and commercial aerospace markets.<\/p>\n

Its office in Clonskeagh was targeted in the early hours of Monday morning, with footage of the incident, shared by group Palestine Action \u00c9ire, showing three people smashing office windows and spray-painting the building red.<\/p>\n

Acra Control was sold to US company Curtiss-Wright, which provides products to the aerospace, defence and energy industries, in 2011 for some \u20ac42 million.<\/p>\n

Protests were held at the office in Clonskeagh earlier this year after the Ditch news website reported it had supplied components to Elbit Systems, Israel\u2019s largest arms producer.<\/p>\n

Citing documents obtained by the news website, the Ditch reported that components were sent to Elbit Systems\u2019s plant in Ramat Hasharon in Israel in September last year.<\/p>\n

During the incident on Monday morning, members of the group also spray-painted messages that read: \u201cdrop Elbit\u201d, and \u201cpal action\u201d. They also carried an Irish flag with messaging which read: \u201cIDF suppliers out of neutral Ireland.\u201d<\/p>\n

A Garda spokesman said garda\u00ed responded to an incident of criminal damage that occurred at about 3am on Monday. \u201cInvestigations are ongoing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

In a statement, Palestine Action \u00c9ire said three of its members were behind the incident, one of whom said they were \u201cdriven by empathy and solidarity with the Palestinian people\u2019s struggle for justice and freedom\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cDespite the risks,\u201d the group member said they \u201crefuse to stand by while the weapons of genocide are manufactured at our doorstep with impunity and the complicity of our Government\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe all know what is happening in Gaza<\/a> is a genocide, yet our Government fails to act in any material way, let alone cut ties with Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n

Palestine Action \u00c9ire said it had targeted the building previously in June, adding that, at that time, it promised to \u201cstrike again if the company didn\u2019t cut its ties to Elbit Systems\u201d.<\/p>\n

Acra Control has been contacted for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Garda investigation has begun after pro-Palestinian protesters caused \u201ccriminal damage\u201d to the south Dublin office of a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,72,615,61,60,3410,3411],"class_list":{"0":"post-50891","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-an-garda-siochana","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-dublin","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-israel","14":"tag-israel-hamas-conflict"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50891","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=50891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}