The walk from Boyle to Dublin was in memory of “our own famine dead, the million dead and million who emigrated” but also “the people of Palestine who are suffering the same forced starvation and forced displacement”, said Mary Gallagher, one of the organisers. “We want the Irish people to look at our own famine and realise that forced displacement, and starvation of our own people, and then look at Gaza today and see that it’s that, and much worse. Liam McNulty (83) from Castlerea in Co Roscommon, the oldest member of the group to walk the full 165km over eight days, agreed it was important for Irish people to relate the war in Gaza “back to our own history ... Irish history was a series of invasions, colonisation, expropriation and settlement.
Author: Sorcha Pollak
Published at: 2025-08-09 21:15:26
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