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Paul James Kearns

Oct 8, 2026, 9:14 PM

October 7th Anniversary, ‘Christmas Day again’

“Israel is a evil state, Hamas should of butchered every last one of them on the spot” Eric “Christmas Day again” Danny “Synagogue of Satan” Paul A sample of social media posts from RTÉ's Facebook page, Ireland’s national broadcaster, on Wednesday, October 7th, the...

Oct 2, 2026, 6:47 AM

An Open Letter to President Connolly: Ireland, Israel and a Handshake

I recently sent the following letter to President Catherine Connolly after Ireland’s footballers declined to exchange pre-match handshakes with their Israeli opponents: Dear President Connolly, I am writing about what I see as a disturbing hostility towards Israel in Irish public...

Sep 30, 2026, 12:27 AM

When a Football Match Becomes a Morality Play

Ireland's soccer players bow their heads as the Israeli national anthem plays before their UEFA Nations League match in Debrecen, Hungary, September 27, 2026. (Bernadett Szabo/Reuters)

I have to be honest: I don't share academia's infatuation with reductive thinking. There is something particularly pernicious about taking the conceptual framework from one historical situation and simply copying and pasting it onto another. History is messy, nations...

Paul James Kearns

Sep 30, 2026, 12:12 AM

“Genocide” “Ignorance, Hypocrisy, Stupidity” Yup, it’s those football matches.

Young Arab Israelis Playing football in Jaffa-Tel Aviv.

We are now in a bizarre state of purgatory between those two matches. In case anybody has completely missed this increasingly sorry and bitter saga, the controversy surrounding UEFA Nations League matches between Ireland and Israel has occupied an extraordinary...

Sep 27, 2026, 2:59 PM

Playing Against a Ghost

Israel's players line up for the Nations League Group B3 soccer match between Austria and Israel in Linz, Austria, Thursday, Sept. 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

The Ireland-Israel fixture and football's selective conscience

Johnathan Orlianski

Sep 27, 2026, 12:55 PM

Qatar got a friendly. Israel got a lecture.

Before Ireland lectures Israel, it should confront its own antisemitic past

Hande Gençünal

Aug 25, 2026, 3:06 AM

Two Voices One State: Ireland 1937–1945

How a country remembers a period is often less simple than what actually happened during it. Thinking about Ireland's years in the Second World War, we first look for a single story, either heroism or guilt. But what historians...

Aug 20, 2026, 8:49 PM

Dublin’s latest obsession: Israel’s European bond distribution

The Irish government appears to feel saddled by that most inconvenient of institutions, an independent central bank. That is, at least, when it comes to the Central Bank of Ireland’s role as the competent authority mandated to approve prospectuses...

Hande Gençünal

Aug 18, 2026, 4:41 AM

A Principle in the Fog, Ireland’s Boycott

In organizational sociology, a 1977 paper by John Meyer and Brian Rowan, published in the American Journal of Sociology, became one of the field's most cited texts. Meyer and Rowan argued that an institution's formal structures often exist not...

Aug 13, 2026, 8:13 PM

Northern Ireland and Lebanon: Shared Destinies

Author: Peace Wall, Belfast

On the day my 94-year-old Irish mother passed this year, a neighbor – a retired Anglican vicar – stopped by and asked to pray by her bedside, despite, as respectfully explained, his being of a “different tradition.” I have...

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