A national protest supporting Palestine is to take place in Dublin this weekend.
The protest, titled, the National Demonstration for Palestine: Three Years of Gaza, is being organised by the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (ISPC), which aims to call for the state of Israel to be sanctioned and to highlight the deaths of tens of thousands of Palestinian people in the region.
It will take place in Dublin City on Saturday, 10 October 2026, beginning at 1pm at the Garden of Remembrance. The protestors will then move over to O'Connell Street, down D'Oilier Street, around by Trinity College, and up to Dawson Street, before finishing outside Leinster House.
This protest will mean bus diversions and traffic will be unable to pass along the route while the demonstration is taking place.
In a statement, the IPSC said: "Under the slogan of ‘Three Years of Genocide in Gaza – Sanctions Now!’ and to highlight more than three years of impunity for Apartheid Israel’s continuing genocide in Gaza in which it has slaughtered some 74,000 Palestinians, and to protest the Irish government’s continued refusal to hold the Apartheid state accountable, the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign, supported by over 160 Irish civil society organisations, has called another National Demonstration for Palestine Saturday 10 October".
They added: "The march will begin at the Garden of Remembrance at 1pm and finish outside the Dáil on Molesworth Street/Kildare Street to bring our demands to the Irish government’s doorstep. The Irish government continues abdicating its responsibility to the Palestinian people, stalling and backtracking on promises to take action, allowing the US military to continue to US Shannon Airport and our airspace, jeopardising our neutrality, and shaming us all by association".
"That’s why it’s imperative that we hit the streets in large numbers once again to pile the pressure on. We’ve seen victories thanks to our collective movement in Ireland – but we demand so, so, much more!" The disabled access point will be outside the back gate of Trinity College, at the intersection of D’Olier Street and College Green at 1.45pm".
