[3] In 2024, Jane Ohlmeyer, a history professor at Trinity College Dublin, noted the tendency to see the conflict through the prism of Northern Ireland, where republican nationalists sympathize with Palestine and loyalists, unionists with Israel".

[5] In 1999 Taoiseach Bertie Ahern went on a two-day trip to Gaza where he met with Yasser Arafat and visited the Jabaliya refugee camp.

[9] A few months later, their Foreign Affairs Minister stated that Ireland would recognize Palestinian statehood, but not until the PNA was in full control over its territories.

[10] In October 2014, the Upper House of the Irish Parliament unanimously passed a motion calling on the Government to recognize the State of Palestine.

In November 2024, the Irish government approved the appointment of Jilan Wahba Abdalmajid as the Palestinian ambassador to Ireland.