Dan O'Brien's Institute of International and European Affairs is holding a briefing on how the US might react to the Occupied Territories Bill. One of his two 'experts' is a Zionist settler who has a home on stolen Palestinian land in the West Bank. www.ontheditch.com/comment-dan-...

🚨Joining us this afternoon: 2.30pm, 30 Anne Street South🚨 Senator Alice Mary Higgins, one of the original sponsors of the Occupied Territories Bill, in conversation with rapper and activist Lowkey and The Ditch A live chat about the left, Palestine and the west

A statement of fact – that Hamas exists and is embedded in Palestinian society – and a straightforward condemnation of western intervention angered a class that’s never served Irish sovereignty, let alone Palestinian humanity Catherine Connolly was right www.ontheditch.com/catherine-co...

🚨Tomorrow at 2.30pm – 30 Anne Street South, Dublin 2 🚨 The Ditch in conversation with @Lowkey0nline More to follow. Places limited

The Irish Aviation Authority didn’t follow proper procedures when it hired Fianna Fáil presidential candidate Jim Gavin as chief operating officer, according to a confidential letter from a whistleblower to then taoiseach Leo Varadkar. www.ontheditch.com/whistleblowe...

Comment: Any day we speak about anything other than housing, healthcare and education is a good one for Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil. With fury among us directed sideways, those on top laugh or sigh with relief. www.ontheditch.com/comment-cult...

A Basque company last week sent almost half a tonne of vehicle components to the Israel Defense Forces’ largest weapons supplier. It went less than a week after Spain said it would ban the export of military goods to Israel. www.ontheditch.com/basque-compa...

An Irish airline illegally transported munitions to Israel – despite just months before taking part in a Microsoft Teams call with Department of Transport officials after reports of its munitions flights to Israel. www.ontheditch.com/department-o...

An independent UN commission today concluded Israel has committed and continues to commit genocide against Palestinians in Gaza The government still allows illegal munitions flights through Irish airspace to Israel and the export of military goods from Ireland to Israel

German national airline Lufthansa has been illegally transporting missile components through Dublin Airport to the Thales arms factory in Belfast for the past year. www.ontheditch.com/missile-part...

The Department of Transport contacted Israel's national airline about flights illegally carrying weapons through Irish airspace – but officials tolerated El Al stalling the investigation for almost eight months after the company hired lawyers. www.ontheditch.com/israels-nati...

The political right hates Michael D Higgins – with good reason The establishment doesn’t want a popular socialist leader to find a worthy successor. That's why it's doing everything it can to sabotage Catherine Connolly The left should similarly unite www.ontheditch.com/comment-the-...

The political right hates Michael D Higgins – with good reason The establishment doesn’t want a popular socialist leader to find a worthy successor. That's why it's doing everything it can to sabotage Catherine Connolly The left should similarly unite www.ontheditch.com/comment-the-...

An ex-Fine Gael councillor accused of sexual assault by three boys and shot in a punishment-style attack became an assistant to a High Court judge investigating the councillor’s senior party colleagues. www.ontheditch.com/ex-fine-gael...

The Israeli justice ministry told a controversial pro-Israel lobby and US politicians that the Dáil passing the Occupied Territories Bill was 'perhaps the worst moment' of 2019 – and spoke of Israel’s efforts to 'support' the Irish government blocking it. www.ontheditch.com/perhaps-the-...

Irish state authorities last month assisted three FedEx flights through Irish territory as they illegally carried F-35 combat jet parts to the Israel Defense Forces. State air navigation service AirNav Ireland helped the three flights omn their journeys. www.ontheditch.com/three-illega...

🚨Breaking🚨 Israeli war bonds won’t be sold in Ireland from tomorrow. Israel today moved its bond prospectus approval process to Luxembourg. It has also not included Ireland as one of the member states where it will sell its war bonds.

shells has passed through EU maritime territory on its way to Israel.  A second cargo ship likely to pass through Spanish waters in the coming days with tonnes of explosives for the IDF’s largest weapons supplier. www.ontheditch.com/almost-400-t...

The Irish Defence Forces held 21 military trials – including cases of sexual assault, mistreatment of subordinates, theft and alcohol-related misconduct – over the last two years.  www.ontheditch.com/sexual-assau...

Fine Gael presidential hopeful Seán Kelly and his policy adviser hosted a renewable energy event for the same adviser’s former lobbyist employer. Kelly and his adviser are heavily involved in promoting the interests of the wind energy industry. www.ontheditch.com/sean-kelly-h...

Fine Gael's Seán Kelly has claimed rental expenses since at least 2017 for an office owned by a party colleague He wouldn’t say if a Fine Gael ex-junior minister owning the property influenced the choice to base his office in Clonmel – 150 kms from Kerry www.ontheditch.com/sean-kelly-o...

🚨Breaking🚨 Dublin-based Innalabs is sending a second shipment of dual-use goods today to Israeli arms company Elbit Systems – the largest supplier of weapons to the IDF. The Ditch reported last month that the Irish company was sending parts used in unmanned drones to Israel.

Gareth Sheridan's company Nutriband admitted earlier this year that its internal financial controls are "not effective" and contain "material weaknesses". This was caused by inadequate oversight and unqualified accounting personnel. www.ontheditch.com/gareth-sheri...

Gareth Sheridan is renting out a two-bedroom US investment property he advertised this year for $2,700 a month – well above its area’s average rent – despite his claims that addressing the housing crisis is a “top, top priority”. www.ontheditch.com/sheridan-sou...

An US investment bank is suing Gareth Sheridan for fraud and breach of contract. The bank and its law firm filed the lawsuit against presidential hopeful Sheridan, his company Nutriband and several other defendants. www.ontheditch.com/gareth-sheri...

A shareholder and director of presidential hopeful Gareth Sheridan’s biotech company owns a weapons factory whose attempt to take over another company is being investigated by Romanian authorities over national security concerns and links to Russia. www.ontheditch.com/director-of-...

Presidential hopeful Gareth Sheridan’s company paid an Israeli hospital that trains Israel Defense Forces soldiers $50,000 in a medical technology deal. 'We were not aware of any connections with the IDF at the time,' said a spokesperson. www.ontheditch.com/gareth-sheri...

Despite Simon Harris yesterday calling for a halt to the use of lethal force at distribution sites in Gaza, a second United Airlines flight carrying another shipment of ammunition handling systems to Israel was allowed through Irish airspace just three days after this story ⬇️

World exclusive with @ShadowWorldInv1 A subsidiary of Israel’s biggest arms manufacturer, Elbit Systems, used a Slovenian port to transport 'military' cargo to Israel – a week after the Slovenian government banned these shipments. www.ontheditch.com/elbit-system...

Three women have accused Aughinish Alumina’s Russian co-owner – Vladimir Putin’s one-time “favourite"; a man for whom three Fine Gael ministers lobbied the US – of paying them for sex when they were minors. www.ontheditch.com/aughinish-al...

A United Airlines flight illegally transported ammunition handling systems – among military cargo overwhelmingly funded by the US government – to Israel through Irish territory this morning. They’re being delivered to the IDF’s largest weapons supplier. www.ontheditch.com/united-airli...

Using Ireland's reliance on foreign direct investment, Israeli government officials and a US legal organisation coordinated to pressure the Irish government to drop the Occupied Territories Bill – according to hacked meeting notes. www.ontheditch.com/israeli-offi...

Comment: Savagery like the attack on the innocent man in Tallaght can be expected as long as government punishes migrants for problems it creates, then feigns shock when members of the public mirror acts of sadism perpetrated by the state itself. www.ontheditch.com/o-callaghan-...

A Fianna Fáil minister, the head of the foreign affairs committee and the ceann comhairle met the Azerbaijani president's special representative last month in Leinster House – less than two years after he threatened genocide against ethnic Armenians. www.ontheditch.com/junior-minis...

An Enterprise Ireland-backed company is sending drone parts to the Israel Defense Forces' largest weapons supplier. This month InnaLabs sent a 110-kilogramme shipment of dual-use components from its facility in west Dublin to Elbit Systems in Israel. www.ontheditch.com/dublin-compa...

Tomorrow, 12.15pm. The Four Courts Dr Ahmed El Mokhallalati, The Ditch and Uplift bring our legal challenge against government over illegal weapons flights through Irish territory and the export of dual use goods to Israel during its genocide in Gaza. Truth is on our side.

A news report part of RTÉ's Clarity used maritime data from a company founded by two ex-Israel Defense Forces naval intelligence officers, financed by an ex-CIA director – and that works with international law enforcement and intelligence services. www.ontheditch.com/rte-clarity-...

Comment: 'I was having a pint in Dublin last week with a few friends. One of them’s from Donegal. She asked me what I thought about Donegal’s run, that we’re in an All Ireland final. “Ah it’s class isn’t it,” I said. “Yeah it’s just class,” she said.' www.ontheditch.com/comment-this...

Then junior enterprise minister Dara Calleary held a private meeting with a US telecommunications company with a deal under investigation by the state consumer protection agency and invited the IDA – which was targeting the company. www.ontheditch.com/dara-callear...

The Ditch stands with all those doing what they can to confront genocide and our state’s complicity in it. Nell Buckley, Emma O'Grady, Jane Windey and others appear in Ennis District Court on September 10, and The Ditch will stand with them. We encourage others to join us.

Fine Gael presidential candidate Mairead McGuinness attended a gala event five days after a car accident she received damages for "severe and debilitating injuries" that "interfered with her enjoyment of life and all routine and other activities”. www.ontheditch.com/presidential...

Reported with @dropsitenews.com Palestinian scholarship students with places at Irish universities and processed visas remain trapped in Gaza as the Irish government refuses to evacuate Palestinians who aren’t on 'official government scholarships'. www.ontheditch.com/government-w...

The Ditch's Eoghan McNeill chats with Trinity BDS and the Independent Workers’ Union in Trinity College's Teatar M. Uí Chadhain Tomorrow, Saturday 18 July, 3pm

🚨In a 'groundbreaking ruling' a Brussels court today imposed penalties on the Flemish government over its 'passive attitude' to Israel’s war on Gaza in legal proceedings brought after The Ditch and De Morgen reported a defence firm was shipping parts from Belgium to Israel⬇️

Fine Gael presidential candidate Mairead McGuinness is a multi-property, mortgage-free landlord. The former European Commissioner rents out two three-bedroom homes she bought mortgage-free over the past decade. ontheditch.com/fine-gael-pr...

Independent presidential candidate Catherine Connolly, Palestinian journalist Abubaker Abed and Drop Site's Ryan Grim at The Ditch x @dropsitenews.com meetup Tomorrow evening, Doyle's, Dublin 2, from 6pm ⬇️Recommend RSVPing in link below⬇️

Joining us at our Ditch x @dropsitenews.com meetup this Thursday Palestinian journalist Abubaker Abed Along with Catherine Connolly, Drop Site’s Ryan Grim and The Ditch’s Paulie Doyle and Eoghan McNeill Doyle’s, Dublin 2 | 17 July | From 6pm

This Thursday, 17 July | Doyle's, Dublin 2 | From 6pm The Ditch x @dropsitenews.com meetup Chats with independent presidential candidate Catherine Connolly, Drop Site's Ryan Grim and The Ditch's senior hurlers

Two ships carrying tonnes of explosives, artillery systems and missiles for the Israel Defense Forces are to dock in EU ports this month on their way to Israel. They left the US and India and are scheduled to arrive in Cyprus and Malta this July. www.ontheditch.com/eu-ports/

A European airline subject of a Department of Transport probe over its illegal weapons flights through Irish territory is using Dubai World Central Airport to transport tonnes of munitions from India to Israel.  www.ontheditch.com/airline-unde...