
Lorna Hayes
@lornahayes8
Deputy CEO @emireland. Irish & European affairs. Human rights, refugee rights. Tweets are my own.
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01-09-2012 17:14:19
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“The key thing is whether the government will deliver a full ban on all trade with the illegal settlements, both in physical goods like dates and oranges, but also intangible services like tourism and IT,” - Conor O'Neill


Spoke to Jude Webber Financial Times for this piece. After years of campaigning led by Senator Frances Black, the Irish Govt finally looks set to ban trade with Israel’s illegal settlements. A huge step, but key Qs remain - will the ban also cover service-based firms like Airbnb?



Tonight, under the weight of hunger and the silence of a war-torn land, I reached for the last thing I had hidden away — a small packet of fortified biscuits from the United Nations. I had saved it for a moment like this, when hunger becomes more than a whisper… when it claws at




“They killed my mother — and before that, my brother. I urge everyone: do not go to the American aid distribution points soaked in blood. This bag only contains 2 empty flour sacks — nothing else — & yet they shot & killed my mother as she tried to get us something to eat today.”








