🚨Growing majority of the public support a boycott of the Ireland-Israel soccer match – with 56 percent now calling for the team to refuse to play and just 36 percent saying the fixture should go ahead, according to an Ireland Thinks poll commissioned by Irish Sport for Palestine
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Jack Chambers urged every major Irish sporting body to use their "influence and authority" to enforce bans on Russia and Belarus after the invasion of Ukraine.
Yesterday government defeated proposals calling for the Ireland-Israel match to be stopped.
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An internal report obtained by The Ditch has exposed hospital consultants prioritising private child patients over those on public lists – with public patients forced to wait significantly longer for vital surgery.
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After two patients of a surgeon at Beaumont suffered “devastating neurological outcomes”, a doctor-led committee at the hospital – in a letter obtained by The Ditch – asked a clinical director to consider stopping the surgeon performing certain surgeries.
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📕The Ditch x The Whistleblower: Book launch with Matt Kennard
Join The Ditch and The Whistleblower at 30 South Anne St on 17 June to launch author and journalist Matt Kennard’s Irregular Army
🎤Limerick: Join The Ditch, Declassified UK co-founder Matt Kenner and guests to discuss Shannon Airport, Irish complicity in war crimes and genocide, as well as Matt's new book – Irregular Army.
18 June
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An Irish insurer that covered a ship carrying 440 tonnes of munitions to Israel – which Amnesty International said could contribute to genocide – had the “honour” of having Fianna Fáil’s Robert Troy attend the opening of its new Dublin office.
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Join The Ditch and Matt on 17 June to launch his new book Irregular Army in The Whistleblower. Tickets here: www.eventbrite.ie/e/book-launc...
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Government claims that releasing a briefing note prepared for Simon Harris’s meeting with the US ambassador in the aftermath of an FAI motion to suspend Israel from European football would “harm” the state’s “capacity to conduct international relations”.
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Troy looks forward to “working with” and “learning from” the company.
