Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said he is ‘deeply concerned’ about the risk of wider conflict in the area.

Burns reopened proceedings: “Thank all of you for your restraint during that episode that has just happened. It's a bit ironic that people who are protesting against illegal occupation will come in and illegally occupy our building.

Micheál Martin urged "all parties to exercise restraint and to work to avoid that outcome," in a statement issued on Saturday.

The FAI confirmed the two games would go ahead and has since confirmed in a letter to members that legal experts have backed that stance.

The FAI confirmed the two games would go ahead and has since confirmed in a letter to members that legal experts have backed that stance.

Former Ireland boss Brian Kerr and current Shamrock Rovers manager Stephen Bradley are among those who have called for a boycott of the two games

Documents seen by Breakingnews.ie through the Freedom of Information Act 2014, show concern by the public about the condition of the hunger strikers in prison.

People Before Profit leader Richard Boyd Barrett said he hoped the match would not go ahead

Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald said Ireland should not play the matches and Israel should be ‘given the red card’.

The countries were drawn together in Group B3 of the Nations League on Thursday

FAI president Paul Cooke said Ireland would fulfil any fixture with Israel if drawn against them in a Uefa-sanctioned competition.

The coalition has committed to passing a ban on goods from illegal settlements but it has been accused of slow progress on enacting legislation.

The first of the two flights passed through Shannon Airport on the night of January 20th/21st with eight Palestinian men on board, reportedly with their wrists and ankles shackled.

Documents seen by BreakingNews.ie show correspondence to Dublin City Council from the public, where people were divided on whether the name should be kept or not.

Crowds marched through Dublin on Saturday to demand government action and sanctions against Israel.

Philippe Lazzarini said Israeli forces stormed the UNRWA headquarters and began demolishing buildings inside the compound.

‘Anything Putin is considering joining with the word peace in it does not sit well,’ Simon Harris said on Thursday.

‘We need to keep working to make sure we get Allianz out of our organisation,’ a protester told the crowd.

Some Dublin players are now refusing to be photographed alongside Allianz branding.

The Israeli embassy in Dublin announced last year that it would close.

Helen McEntee and 13 counterparts co-signed a statement condemning new Israeli settlements in the West Bank.

Coming less than a week before Christmas, it heard reflections that had Jesus been born today, he would be ‘born under siege’.

The association’s Management Committee voted in favour of continuing the relationship

The group, which performed at Dublin’s Vicar Street last month, allege that RTÉ engaged in defamation by saying the lead singer led antisemitic chants during a Glastonbury performance.

‘If another country had kidnapped Irish citizens, what would we have done?’ the committee was asked.

Ireland is among a number of countries that pulled out of the contest over Israel’s participation in 2026.

Groups and individuals have reacted to the broadcaster’s decision not to participate in or air Eurovision in 2026.

Ireland will not take part in Eurovision Song Contest over Israel participation, RTÉ says

The council passed a Sinn Féin motion on Monday night to raise the flag.

A controversial proposal to rename the park did not go to a vote on Monday

The proposal had been criticised by Taoiseach Micheál Martin and Tánaiste Simon Harris.

The park is named after Chaim Herzog, who was was born in Belfast and raised in Dublin.

The park is named after former Israeli president Chaim Herzog, who was was born in Belfast and raised in Dublin.

Carolyn Gelenter was one of around 100 protesters who gathered in Tavistock Square Gardens, central London, on Saturday afternoon.

The Government said it still needs ‘legal clarity’ on whether it can include services in the legislation.

The leaders of the main opposition parties have said they will put forward a private members’ motion on the issue.

‘There is a clear appetite for this to be done, and to be done swiftly,’ Labour leader Ivana Bacik said.

Israel's genocide in Gaza has killed 344 footballers - more than the full squads of the League of Ireland Premier Division combined, Bohemian FC said.

Paul Givan has come under fire over a visit to Israel last week, during which he told officials to publicise a visit to a school in Jerusalem.

The Stormont Education Minister defended asking his department to publicise his visit to a school in Israel amid calls for him to resign.

DUP leader Gavin Robinson said Paul Givan is ‘going nowhere’.

The Northern Ireland Teachers’ Council said the visit was ‘deeply troubling’

Here, we have a look at the topics likely to dominate political discourse in the week to come