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Brian Kerr launches ‘Gaza Kids to Ireland’ football initiative

25/10/2014

 
Wednesday, October 29, 2014, 11am
Buswell’s Hotel, Molesworth Street, Dublin


A TEAM of Palestinian children will play football in Ireland next summer, thanks to an initiative to be launched next Wednesday by former Irish manager and leading football pundit Brian Kerr.

Ex-rugby international Trevor Hogan, one of the organisers of the visit, will also speak at the launch.

Under-14 members of the Al-Helal club, based in northern Gaza, will play against teams from Dublin, Tipperary, Limerick and Belfast during their visit next August.

The trip – which will see the children make a daunting journey across Egypt’s Sinai Desert, because the simpler route through Israel is closed by the siege – is being organised by Gaza Action Ireland and Antrim to Gaza, who need to raise thousands of euro to support the initiative.

Al-Helal’s clubhouse was damaged in the Israeli assaults of 2012 and 2014. With the nearby sea polluted by sewage, football is often the only exercise and entertainment available to Gaza’s children, who have just lived through the third major attack in less than six years on the territory where they live.

The organisers are pleased to have the support of many Irish sportspeople, including Kerr, who also serves as a director of SARI (Sport Against Racism Ireland).

Contact: Trevor Hogan, 087 960 2304; Zoe Lawlor, 087 950 4397

Photographs of children from Al-Helal and of their Gaza facilities will be available on the day.

Windows Into Gaza Irish Tour – ILoveLimerick.ie

3/10/2014

 
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‘WINDOWS INTO GAZA’
The launch for the Limerick “leg” of the ‘Windows Into Gaza’ exhibition took place on Thursday, 2nd October at 6pm at 69, O’Connell St. ‘Windows Into Gaza’ is an exhibition organised by Gaza Action Ireland and curated by Felim Egan.

The exhibition will be open and run in Limerick until the 17th of October.
The event was officially opened by artist Sean Taylor and Zoe Lawlor of Gaza Action Ireland.‘Windows Into Gaza’ first arrived in Ireland in April where the opening in Dublin was attended by a number of notable names including the Palestinian Ambassador, the artist Guggi and actor Stephen Rea. The exhibition by 11 Palestinian artists based in Gaza illustrates the best of painting and photography from the besieged enclave. A side of Gaza, Palestine not commonly known, the side of a people with a deep cultural heritage, full of innovation, hope and peace.

’This is also Gaza’.
The exhibition includes photographs from the children’s workshops run voluntarily by the artists.The exhibition will tour Ireland, Belfast, Derry, Galway, Limerick & Cork before returning to Dublin in October.The exhibition will be accompanied by a full colour bi-lingual catalogue.A special edition of Giclee prints, by several of the artists, on Hahnemhule paper will be available for sale.A limited signed edition print ‘Saoirse’ by Felim Egan will also be for sale.Proceeds go towards the costs of the exhibition and any profits will be donated to the Children’s Art Workshop in Gaza.Claudia Saba, an Arabic-speaking member of Gaza Action Ireland met one of the artists, Raed Issa in Gaza last year. Raed whose home was bombed by Israel in the attack on Gaza spoke to Claudia on the phone as he picked through the rubble trying to retrieve his life and work. She relayed the following account:

‘He said he was back in the rubble trying to salvage whatever useful things he could find and that he wanted to do it now because at night “it’s a little more scary”. As I was speaking to him I heard a large explosion. He said that was an airstrike approximately a kilometre away.

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