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Newbies, celebrities, and one turkey: These Irish books are in the running to be named the best of 2017

The nominees for the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book awards were announced today.

AUTHORS OF THE year’s best Irish books have been named as nominees in the 2017 Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards.

A mixture of new and established names from across the book world – including the history, cookery, and sport worlds as well as fiction and non-fiction – all feature in the shortlist. Oh, and there’s also one turkey.

The nominees include Marian Keyes, Emer McLysaght (former editor of DailyEdge.ie) and Sarah Breen, Paul Howard, Niall Kelly (deputy editor of The42.ie) and Ruth Fitzmaurice.

In the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards 2017 there are 15 categories, including Novel of the Year, Children’s, Cookery, Crime Fiction, Popular Fiction, Nonfiction, Sports, Short Story, Poetry and the new Teen and Young Adult book of the year category. (You’ll find a full list at the end of this article).

It’s the 12th year of the awards, which were founded to celebrate and promote Irish writing to the widest range of readers possible.

Larry Mac Hale, Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards Chairperson, said that its an exciting time of year for publishers, booksellers and readers.

“In June, the trade journal, The Bookseller, dedicated an entire edition to the Irish books market, applauding the general buoyancy in the trade and noting a ‘return to form over the past two years’,” he said. “It augurs well for bookstores across the country and with books like these to promote we’re confident of having a bumper 2017 Christmas.”

The nominees

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At today’s launch we caught up with some of the nominees, many of whom were on the list for the first time.

One of those is Ruth Fitzmaurice, author of I Found My Tribe and wife of Simon Fitzmaurice, the filmmaker who sadly died last week. Her nonfiction debut is about her life with Simon, their family, and the ‘tribe’ she found while swimming in Greystones.

“As surreal as my life is in general, to be honest with you, it was ‘oh yeah another mad thing’s happened’,” she joked about her nomination.

The book came about after an essay she wrote for the Irish Times struck a huge chord with readers. Why does she think her work connected with people so much?

“I think it’s a combination of circumstance and I think that thing they talk about, finding your voice as a writer,” she said. “Ironically it was the tragedy or the harsh circumstances we were living with, it just channelled everything and it was really important – the writing just came out, it was raw inside me.”

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One of last year’s winners, Dave Rudden, is nominated again for his second book, The Forever Court.

“It’s really lovely  – second books are always scary and difficult, and to get the vote of confidence like this is really nice,” he said. With the publishing of his third book in the trilogy imminent, Rudden has been delighted to see the response of young readers eagerly anticipating the novel.

“You build this giant structure of a trilogy, and the third book is where you bring it all home – no one is going to read the third book if they don’t already love the first and the second,” he pointed out. “And you put so much effort into building this huge thing, all these dominoes, and then they all come down in the third book. And to have 200 kids yell their hearts out because they’re as excited as I am is so good – I am so delighted.”

Another YA/teen nominee is Moira Fowley-Doyle, author of Spellbook of the Lost and Found. The YA (young adult) book world has become a hugely popular one, and the category highlights this.

“It’s so exciting – I wish when I was a teenager that YA was what it is now. It’s such a rich category and you have so many different genres and so many different types of books,” she said.

One of the loudest cheers at the nominations announcement was for Oh My God What A Complete Aisling. It’s no surprise to hear then that the authors, Sarah Breen and Emer McLysaght, have signed with an agent and are keen to begin work on book two.

“We are absolutely thrilled to be nominated and amongst such amazing books in our category as well, we know it’s going to be very stiff competition,” said Breen.

Added McLysaght: “I remember us joking about ‘imagine if we got to go to the book awards’, and then ‘ha – imagine we were nominated’. Completely joking; we thought it was the most hilarious thing ever – and here we are, mam!”

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Another debut writer is Alan McGonagle, whose novel Ithaca is nominated. He echoed the thoughts of many of the writers present when he said that the awards are a chance to get out of the writing ‘cave’ and connect with peers.

“I suppose to a certain extent it’s a little overwhelming as far as the work goes. You spend so long in the cave, it’s a solitary preoccupation, writing, per se,” he said of his book’s success. “And suddenly then to hear first of all it’s good enough for publication, and then all of a sudden you walk into bookshops and see it on shelves… It’s great. I just try and savour it, people close to me are saying ‘don’t forget to enjoy it’.”

One of the nominees in TheJournal.ie‘s sponsored category, best Irish Published Book of the Year, is Helen James. Her book A Sense of Home is aimed at people wanting to make their home as comfortable and beautiful as it can be.

“It’s my first book and it’s a really personal project, so it’s really about my life and my thoughts on your home and design,” she said. “So it just feels so lovely to be nominated for an award, a bit of recognition.”

“More and more with all of this technology and all that’s going on, our homes have to become such a haven and a cocoon, and with all of your senses you can make it so much more personal, more of a sensory experience.”

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Caroline Foran‘s Owning It stands out from the pack as it’s a non-fiction book about anxiety. “It was beyond my wildest expectations,” she said about her nomination.

“I think what my book did was help people who were talking about anxiety, who knew they were dealing with anxiety, my book helped people understand what that is and what’s going on, and really clearly break down that kind of thing,” she said.

When I was writing I was thinking of myself as someone who was really struggling at that time, thinking ‘what would that person want to read?’

In the children’s category, we have father and daughter pair Fatti Burke and John Burke, with Foclóiropedia: A Journey Through the Irish Language from Arán to Zú. With Fatti in Dublin and John in Waterford, theirs is a particularly interesting collaborative process.

“We started off just with one book and we thought that would be a one-off thing. Now that it’s a trilogy it’s so fun, it’s very unexpected,” said a delighted Fatti (the pair are set to take a little break from their work for the time being).

They were happy to be ending the trilogy of books on one about the Irish language. “There’s a movement towards lightening up the subject and making it more fun for children and adults,” said John. “Just getting more out of it, rather than having the exam idea of swotting for something.”

There are also a number of people who self-published in this year’s nominees list, like Helena Duggan for A Place Called Perfect. Her book was later picked up and published by Usborne. She described her journey:

“In 2012 I self-published with Amazon, in e-book and in printed book. And then I went out, put it into the shops locally and it got great sales. And off the back of that I approached an agent and got an agent, and then Usborne in the UK.”

“I just took a punt on it because it’s so hard anyway, so I had nothing to lose and when you can design yourself it doesn’t cost,” said the author and designer.

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A self-published cookery book on the shortlist was Fearless Food, written by Lynda Booth of Dublin Cookery School.

“At the end of the day there’s so much work that goes into the book. I choose to be self-published, so I’m totally involved in every aspect, from the writing to the food styling to the design,” she said. “I love the creative process, so it’s wonderful to be nominated.”

“The writing would be very important – I would put a lot of work not just into the recipes but extra pages that would be written about my philosophy about food, or food trends, my views on that,” added Booth.

I take the writing just as seriously as I do the recipes so it’s nice that that would be recognised. I want everybody to bring my cookery book to bed – I want to engage my reader, and the way I do that is through the writing outside the recipe, not just the recipe itself. And I love to tell the reader the background story behind the recipe. I think that makes it more intriguing and makes people want to cook them.”

There’s also a short story category in the awards. June Caldwell is one of the nominees, for her story ‘Upcycle: an account of some strange happenings on Botanic Road’ from her collection Room Little Darker.

“I’m really delighted and I’m also delighted that it’s the most normal story in the book – and I’m just delighted because the longlist was really tough, it was full of stars so I can’t believe I’m on this,” she said.

She’s just starting work on her debut novel. “To me a lot of modern novels are ultimately written in short story format and whether they know it or not they are written in sequence,” she said. “So I am not too intimidated by the idea, it’s just the length of it. I’m missing short stories, I have a hankering to get back to them. It is one of those forms that you have a fling with or not. ”

Speaking of flings, the BGEIBAs also has the honour of having one turkey amongst its nominees – Dustin the Turkey.

“It’s been absolutely brilliant, it’s amazing to be nominated – in other words there’s no money in music anymore so I decided to writ’ a book,” the feathered scribe told TheJournal.ie.

But the event might have some repercussions for his personal life.

But it’s a bit problematic because when I heard the nominees, it went Maia Dunphy and I went ‘yep’; Vogue Williams ‘yep, yeah’; Stefanie Preissner ‘yeah’; Caroline Foran ‘yeah’…. so, I’m basically going out with all of them so it’s going to be weird on the night because they don’t know about each other, you know what I mean? [To TheJournal.ie's reporter]: So you won’t be putting this out of course?

Sorry about that, Dustin…

Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards 2017 Shortlist:

TheJournal.ie Best Irish Published Book of the Year

  • The Woodcutter and His Family – Frank Mc Guinness (Brandon)
  • Atlas of the Irish Revolution – John Crowley, Donál Ó Drisceoil, Mike Murphy and John Borgonovo (Cork University Press)
  • A Sense of Home – Helen James (Hachette Books Ireland)
  • Tangleweed and Brine – Deirdre Sullivan illustrated by Karen Vaughan (Little Island)
  • Connemara & Aran – Walter Pfeiffer (Artisan House)
  • De Valera Volume 1: Rise (1882 – 1932) – David McCullagh (Gill Books)

National Book Tokens Children’s Book of the Year (Junior)

  • Rabbit and the Bear: The Pest in the Nest – Julian Gough and Jim Field (Hodder Children’s Press)
  • Socks for Mr. Wolf – Tatyana Feeney (The O’Brien Press)
  • A Sailor went to Sea, Sea, Sea – Favourite Rhymes from an Irish Childhood – Sarah Webb illustrated by Steve Mc Carthy (The O’Brien Press)
  • Patrick and the President – Ryan Tubridy illustrated by PJ Lynch (Walker Books)
  • The President’s Glasses – Peter Donnelly (Gill Books)
  • Foclóiropedia: A Journey Through the Irish Language from Arán to Zú – Fatti Burke and John Burke (Gill Books)

National Books Tokens Children’s Book of the Year (Senior)

  • Illegal – Eoin Colfer and Andrew Donkin illustrated Giovannie Rigano (Hodder Children’s Books)
  • The Forever Court – Dave Rudden (Puffin)
  • A Place Called Perfect – Helena Duggan (Usborne Publishing)
  • Star by Star – Sheena Wilkinson (Little Island)
  • A Dangerous Crossing – Jane Mitchell (Little Island)
  • Stand by Me – Judi Curtin (The O’Brien Press)

Dept 51@Eason Teen / Young Adult Book of the Year

  • Spellbook of the Lost and Found – Moira Fowley-Doyle (Corgi Childrens)
  • Perfect – Cecelia Ahern (HarperCollins Children’s Books)
  • Moonrise – Sarah Crossan (Bloomsbury Children’s Books)
  • Like Other Girls – Claire Hennessy (Hot Key Books)
  • Tangleweed and Brine – Deirdre Sullivan illustrated Karen Vaughan (Little Island)
  • The Girl in Between – Sarah Carroll (Simon & Schuster UK)

Eason Book Club Novel of the Year

  • Mrs Osmond – John Banville (Viking)
  • When Light is Like Water – Molly Mc Closkey (Penguin Ireland)
  • The Heart’s Invisible Furies – John Boyne (Doubleday)
  • Smile – Roddy Doyle (Jonathan Cape)
  • Midwinter Break – Bernard MacLaverty (Johnathan Cape)
  • he: A Novel – John Connolly (Hodder & Stoughton)

Specsavers Popular Fiction Book of the Year

  • Orange Blossom Days – Patricia Scanlan (Simon & Schuster)
  • The Break – Marian Keyes (Michael Joseph)
  • Operation Trumpsformation – Ross O’Carroll-Kelly (Penguin Ireland)
  • The Good Mother – Sinéad Moriarty (Penguin Ireland)
  • The Woman at 72 Derry Lane – Carmel Harrington (HarperCollins Publishers)
  • Keep You Safe – Melissa Hill (HQ)

Irish Independent Crime Fiction Book of the Year

  • Can You Keep A Secret? – Karen Perry (Michael Joseph)
  • Here and Gone – Haylen Beck (Harvill Secker)
  • Let the Dead Speak – Jane Casey (HaperCollins Publisher)
  • One Bad Turn – Sinéad Crowley (Quercus)
  • There was a Crooked Man – Cat Hogan (Poolbeg Press)
  • The Therapy House – Julie Parsons (New Island Books)

Sunday Independent Newcomer of the Year

  • I Found My Tribe – Ruth Fitzmaurice (Chatto & Windus)
  • Conversations with Friends – Sally Rooney (Faber & Faber)
  • The Gospel According to Blindboy – Blindboy Boatclub (Gill Books)
  • Oh My God What A Complete Aisling The Novel – Emer Mc Lysaght and Sarah Breen (Gill Books)
  • Montpelier Parade – Karl Geary (Harvill Secker)
  • Harvesting – Lisa Harding (New Island Books)

Onside Non-Fiction Book of the Year

  • In America: Tales from Trump Country – Caitríona Perry (Gill Books)
  • After Ireland – Declan Kiberd (Head of Zeus)
  • Alfie – Trevor White (Penguin Ireland)
  • Brexit and Ireland – Tony Connelly (Penguin Ireland)
  • Wounds: A Memoir of War & Love – Fergal Keane (William Collins)
  • I Am, I Am, I Am – Maggie O’ Farrell (Headline)

Ireland AM Popular Non- Fiction Book of the Year

  • The M Word: – Maia Dunphy (Gill Books)
  • WikiBeaks – Dustin the Turkey (Transworld Ireland)
  • Why Can’t Everything Just Stay the Same? – Stefanie Preissner (Hechette Books Ireland )
  • Everything – Vogue William (Hachette Books Ireland)
  • Owning It: Your Bullsh*t-Free Guide to Living with Anxiety – Caroline Foran (Hachette Books Ireland)
  • Motherfocloir – Darch Ó Séaghdha (Head of Zeus)

EUROSPAR Cookbook of the Year

  • Cook Well, Eat Well – Rory O’ Connell (Gill Books)
  • Neven Maguire’s Perfect Irish Christmas – Neven Maguire (Gill Books)
  • Fearless Food – Lynda Booth (DCS Publishing)
  • Half Hour Hero – Roz Purcell (Penguin Ireland)
  • Home Baking – Rachel Allen (HarperCollins Publishers)
  • The Cookery School, Donnybrook Fair – Niall Murphy (Mercier Press)

Bord Gáis Energy Sports Book of the Year

  • The Choice – Philly McMahon with Niall Kelly (Gill Books)
  • The Ascent: Séan Kelly, Stephen Roche and the Rise of Irish Cycling’s Golden Generation – Barry Ryan (Gill Books)
  • Shay: Any Given Saturday – The Autobiography– Shay Given (Trinity Mirror Sport Media )
  • The Warrior’s Code: My Autobiography – Jackie Tyrell with Christy O’ Connor (Trinity Mirror Sport Media)
  • Gooch: The Autobiography – Colm Cooper (Transworld Ireland)
  • Form: My Autobiography – Kieran Fallon with Oliver Holt (Simon & Schuster UK)

RTE Radio One’s The Ryan Tubridy Show Listener’s Choice Award

  • Jackie’s Girl: My Life with the Kennedy Family– Kathy Mc Keon (Simon & Schuster)
  • he: A Novel – John Connolly (Hodder & Stoughton)
  • Ithaca – Alan Mc Monagle (Picador)
  • The Word is Murder – Anthony Horowitz (Century)
  • Admissions: A Life in Brain Surgery – Henry Marsh (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
  • Francis Brennan’s Book of Household Management – Francis Brennan (Gill Books)

Listowel Writer’s Week Irish Poem of the Year

  • Points – Amanda Bell (From the Irish Times)
  • Seven Sugar Cubes – Clodagh Beresford (From the Irish Times)
  • Bride and Moth – Tara Bergin (From the Tragic Death of Eleanor Marx)
  • Ledwidge in Manchester – John Mc Auliffe (From the Irish Times)

Writing.ie Short Story of the Year

  • Back to Bones – Christine Dwyer Hickey (Longlisted for Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award)
  • Consolata – Nuala O’ Connor (From Joyride to Jupiter – New Island Books)
  • Dogs – Helena Mulkerns (From Ferenji and other Stories – Doire Press)
  • Hollow – Paul Mc Veigh (From Numéro Cinq Magazine)
  • In the Event of an Emergency – Patricia Mc Adoo (From Books Ireland Magazine)
  • Upcycle: an account of some strange happenings on Botanic Road – June Caldwell (From Room Littler Darker – New Island Books)

David Walliams, the best-selling children’s author, has been announced as the recipient of the 2017 ‘Bord Gáis Energy International Recognition Award’ at this year’s awards.

While there is a judging panel, the public are now being asked to cast their votes online for the best books of the year on the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards website. This year, anyone who casts their vote on the www.bgeirishbookawards.ie website, will be in with the chance of winning a €100 voucher from National Book Tokens.

You can cast your votes until midday on Thursday 23 November, and the winners will be announced at the gala ceremony in The Clayton Hotel, Burlington Road on Tuesday, 28th November. This year, the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards will be presented by Keelin Shanley and will be televised on RTÉ One at 9.30pm the following day.

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    Oct 3rd 2015, 5:52 PM

    Backed to the teeth by Uncle Sam…

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    Oct 3rd 2015, 6:25 PM

    Good on Uncle Sam.

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    Oct 3rd 2015, 6:28 PM

    The shy retiring Benny Netanyahu pushed through a law recently allowing the IDF to shoot stone throwers with live rounds.Awaiting a lot of deaths over the next few days.
    http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/25/israel-live-ammunition-measures

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    Oct 3rd 2015, 6:31 PM

    America’s bed buddies like two peas in a pod when it comes to barbarism.

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    Oct 3rd 2015, 7:08 PM

    The world has stood by and allowed Israel freereign over the Palestinians. The have been left no choice but to resort to violence. Its only those who have no clue who could support the terror rained down by Israel. Isnt it also illegal to settle on Palestinian land? Those people should not have been there.

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    Oct 3rd 2015, 7:51 PM

    @ hypernova… if you got a slap of half a brick in the face it might make you want to shoot the b******d…….its not “pebbles “

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    Oct 3rd 2015, 7:58 PM

    I like how the journal have a lengthly article about the Jews injuring a few Arabs yet didn’t have any report of the couple being shot in front of their kids until now!

    You stay classy journal!

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    Oct 3rd 2015, 8:00 PM

    Also does this headline suggest that the couple being shot dead in front of their kids was a form of “Protest”

    Sick, just sick!

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    Oct 3rd 2015, 8:05 PM

    @Bill Madden. Elderly Israeli murdered by Killer Rock-throwers just 2 weeks ago.

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    Oct 3rd 2015, 8:15 PM

    @ Patrick: 800+ children murdered by Israeli killer bomb throwers last year.

    Your point is?

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    Oct 3rd 2015, 8:40 PM

    @For Connolly. Read the posts from Hypernova to Bill Madden to myself and if you can’t you connect the dots you can’t be helped.

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    Oct 3rd 2015, 9:03 PM

    &Patrick,

    What happened to the Israeli settlers who burned alive the Palestinian family, father and children several weeks ago…..look it up research it and look for the justice and hypo racy.

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    Oct 4th 2015, 12:51 AM

    muslim youth stab four members of a jewish family today killing their dad,just for walking past a mosque.Not reported either

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    Oct 3rd 2015, 5:51 PM

    Zionist terrorists

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    Oct 3rd 2015, 6:00 PM

    So it’s okay to shoot an unarmed innocent couple in their car in front of their 4 children ? The authorities are supposed to sit back and do nothing in the hunt for these cold blooded murderers?

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    Oct 3rd 2015, 6:05 PM

    A man was shot in front of his 4 kids. I would hope that Israel would do anything within it’s power to find the actual terrorists.

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    Oct 3rd 2015, 6:09 PM

    “So it’s okay to shoot an unarmed innocent couple in their car in front of their 4 children ? ”

    Don’t recall the bloke saying that alan.

    He used two words, Zionist terroritsts, both of which are demonstrably true.

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    Oct 3rd 2015, 6:26 PM

    I’m not saying they deserved to be sot, no one does, but they were living on occupied land.

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    Oct 3rd 2015, 6:27 PM

    No answer jamiing, but I suppose sweeping statements us all your good for, oh and stalking people.

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    Oct 3rd 2015, 6:28 PM

    Terrorism – the act of using violence, intimidation and fear for political ends.

    The heavy handed tactics of the jackbooted thugs of the IDF is terrorism 101.

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    Oct 3rd 2015, 6:28 PM

    So Palestinians are all innocent? …It is your hatred Anna bigotry one way?

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    Oct 3rd 2015, 6:28 PM

    Deborah. That’s exactly what you are saying. I’m not a racist but….

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    Oct 3rd 2015, 6:32 PM

    Share us with is the act of terrorism in this story jamming. I know facts aren’t your forte but the terrorism was the murder of a father of 4. In front of his kids. And you defend this barbarism. You’re a sick man.

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    Oct 3rd 2015, 6:43 PM

    @ Jon, it’s ok you can call them Jewish terrorists, we all know that’s what people mean! The same old crap, bad Jew good Arab/gentile, they have been listening to that old cobblers since the Romans expelled the Jews from their homeland (what SOME of you clowns “occupied” Jerusalem /West Bank!

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    Oct 3rd 2015, 6:44 PM

    well western Poland is occupied German East Prussia good bit of Croatia is occupied Serbia for instance

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    Oct 3rd 2015, 6:44 PM

    You are saying it Deborah

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    Oct 3rd 2015, 6:46 PM

    Isn’t that what the real Connolly did ? , use terrorism for political ends

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    Oct 3rd 2015, 7:58 PM

    Israel are the real terrorists. No Israeli should be in this land, they are illegally occupying it. That is not just me stating that, but the international community, see UN Resolution 242. Ironic to see the attacker spared the children here yet Israel have no problem dropping 1ton bombs on civilian neighbourhoods..

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    Oct 3rd 2015, 8:24 PM

    @Chris Jordan. That is not the UN”s position at all at all. See below UN 242 resolution,etc.
    —”The “occupation” of the West Bank and Gaza was not an occupation of Palestinian territory. It simply retook these two areas from the Jordanians and the Egyptians, who had been occupying them since 1948. Today, Gaza has been wholly given over to the Palestinian people. The Israeli administration of the West Bank is totally legal under international law and is endorsed by UN Resolution 242 (1967), which makes it clear that Israel has to move out from only some of the territory, and that only once the Palestinians have agreed to final and secure borders for Israel, and have recognized the state of Israel — something they have never done. It is also legalized under the Israel-Jordan peace treaty of 1987 and the 1993 and 1995 Oslo Accords.—”
    Those who need a good brush up on the Arab/Israeli conflict I recommend the article by distinguished Irish writer Denis MacEoin in link below..
    http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/6584/palestinian-lies

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    Oct 3rd 2015, 8:48 PM

    Said it before say it again Started with crucifying Jesus in favor of a terrorist and haven’t changed since …

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    Oct 3rd 2015, 8:58 PM

    Here is an actual excerpt from the resolution Patrick

    “Affirms that the fulfillment of Charter principles requires the establishment of a just and lasting peace in the Middle East which should include the application of both the following principles:

    Withdrawal of Israeli armed forces from territories occupied in the recent conflict

    Termination of all claims or states of belligerency and respect for and acknowledgement of the sovereignty, territorial integrity and political independence of every State in the area and their right to live in peace within secure and recognized boundaries free from threats or acts of force;

    The state of Palestine includes the West Bank and Gaza. The above is related to, though not in its entirety the lands of the West Bank forcibly occupied by Israel in 1967. Not Judea and Samaria it is the West Bank, Palestine.

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    Oct 3rd 2015, 10:23 PM

    No no Jon, sure only Muslims can be terrorists! Everyone knows that.

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    Oct 4th 2015, 1:18 AM

    @Chris Jordan.Source please?

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    Oct 4th 2015, 12:00 PM

    @ Patrick. IT IS IN THE RESOLUTION explicitly, verbatim, word for word. Not from an anti Palestinian website that you have linked from. The actual UN..

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    Oct 4th 2015, 8:55 PM

    And since you are well versed in this Chris, I’m sure you’re aware that UN resolutions have absolutely no legal standing whatsoever. So you have no argument.

    No document has ever changed Israel’s right to all of Palestine.

    By the way calling it the west bank is actually worse than calling Derry Londonderry. The West Bank was an invented name by the Arabs from their illegal occupation only 60 years ago. It has zero historical significance

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    Oct 3rd 2015, 6:03 PM

    I hope the Israelis catch the killers. Naturally, Hamas praised the killing of the 2 parents.

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    Oct 3rd 2015, 6:10 PM

    To be fair most people in the west bank support HAMAS They would win any election there

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    Oct 3rd 2015, 6:49 PM

    Of course Hamas would win any election sure didn’t they murder all the opposition

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    Oct 3rd 2015, 7:31 PM

    They probably deserved it Clifford

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    Oct 3rd 2015, 8:14 PM

    @Clifford Brennan. Not only praise but they had a big celebration.
    —’Disgusting: Palestinians launched fireworks on Thursday to celebrate the brutal slaying of an Israeli couple in a shooting attack.

    By Shiryn Ghermezian, algemeiner.com

    Throngs of Palestinians took to the streets on Thursday night to celebrate the brutal slaying of an Israeli couple in a shooting attack in the West Bank.

    The festivities included the launching of fireworks and the waving of flags in the streets, Ofir Gendelman, a spokesperson for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.
    Disgusting: Palestinians launched fireworks on Thursday to celebrate the brutal slaying of an Israeli couple in a shooting attack.By Shiryn Ghermezian, algemeiner.com

    http://www.collive.com/show_news.rtx?id=37292&alias=arabs-celebrate-couples-murder

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    Oct 3rd 2015, 8:19 PM

    Any non-Zionist news sources Patrick?

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    Oct 3rd 2015, 8:26 PM

    can’t fathom that.

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    Oct 3rd 2015, 6:05 PM

    So the murder of a man in front of his kids is ok because he is Jewish?

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    Oct 3rd 2015, 6:41 PM

    did you see the video of 2 journalists being attacked by the IDF 2 days ago. Google it and watch it. they take the cameras and flash cards off them and destroy them. fortunately they were caught on camera. AFP are doing their nut over it. oh and they give them a few skelps across the head for good measure too all at gunpoint. imagine what they do when there are no cameras around.

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    Oct 3rd 2015, 8:04 PM

    Most military forces would do that to people recording them… And I think “attack” is a bit of an extremist idea.

    Like Hammas!

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    Oct 3rd 2015, 6:09 PM

    I hope the murderers are caught soon.

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    Oct 3rd 2015, 6:57 PM

    The ones in Uniform shooting live rounds at stone throwing kids who had their parents land stolen.

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    Oct 4th 2015, 9:13 PM

    Luckily for them ghey have 23 other arab states to go to! Enjoy :)

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    Oct 3rd 2015, 6:07 PM

    not even proof reading your headlines anymore

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    Oct 3rd 2015, 6:32 PM

    So it’s ok to kill someone simple because he is Jewish, Marc?

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    Oct 3rd 2015, 6:42 PM

    Both parents were murdered.

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    Oct 3rd 2015, 6:16 PM

    waiting for patrick. tick tock tick tock.

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    Oct 3rd 2015, 6:20 PM

    ok. he’s obviously gone to read the manual on how to respond to this situation so I’ll give it a go for him. hamas fire rockets, hide in schools and churches and hospitals, dress jihadis in kids clothes and send them onto a beach with a football bomb to kill Israelis, mohomed makes them do it, want all israel dead blah blah blah, South Sudan , islamapologists boo hoo hoo america right Russia wrong barrel bombs Iran bad

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    Oct 3rd 2015, 6:38 PM

    It seems to be OK to murder Muslims though, the IDF and ‘settlers’ average six a week, there never seems to be the same response from the security(occupation) forces then.the procedure if a ‘settler’ is firing on Palestinians is to wait for them to run out of ammunition and then arrest them, not surprisingly they are not so tolerant when the situation is reversed

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    Oct 3rd 2015, 6:58 PM

    The real descendants of Abraham are mostly the Palestinians living in and around modern day Israel. The modern day Jews are a Russian race who were dispersed throughout Europe and finally to Israel after WWII. None of their ancestors come from Israel. This is fact. A Jewish historian spent 30 years researching this.

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    Oct 3rd 2015, 9:26 PM

    Og you are an idiot keep quiet until you know what you are talking about , everything you have said is incorrect

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    Oct 3rd 2015, 11:02 PM

    Look up the Khazars, Mike. They’re the ancestors of the “white Jews”.

    Can you dispute DNA evidence?

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    Oct 3rd 2015, 6:40 PM

    Great to see your anti semitism out in public Marc. Your parents will be proud. I see you’re a NASA fan. All those Jewish engineers and scientists must really hurt your feelings

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    Oct 3rd 2015, 7:43 PM

    Israel must be stopped, this is going on too long.

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    Oct 4th 2015, 1:05 AM

    Hamas need to be stopped. They are as bad as ISIS.

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    Oct 4th 2015, 9:12 PM

    They are worse than ISIS. There are people in this very comment thread who agree with their cause. That is far more dangerous

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    Oct 3rd 2015, 6:32 PM

    Marc get help.

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    Oct 3rd 2015, 6:25 PM

    Haaretz reporting that an orthodox family of 4 stabbed in Jerusalem today, including a 2 year Zionist terrorist. Attacker shot dead by security services.

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    Oct 3rd 2015, 7:21 PM

    The Palestinians murdered this evening 2 Israeli civilians and wounded a tourist (Yes, just like the radical islamist in Tunis…) Yesterday the Palestinians killed a young Israeli couple – again Jews – in front of the eyes of their 4 children!!!! Why don’t you write a word about it???? How can you be so baised? it’s not fair! This anti Israel obsession is called Antisemitism! Do you get it? I bet you won’t even publish my comment and remove me forever from your comment section. If you do that – God (if exists) will get even with you… Don’t be surprised…

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    Oct 3rd 2015, 7:29 PM

    antisemitism antimuslim antichristian aunty Mary. it’s all here in the journal. you get used to it. and welcome to the journal.

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    Oct 3rd 2015, 7:37 PM

    Everytime somebody stands up to Israel we here this term “antisemite”. The Palestinians have more semite blood than the Jews. Look it up. The educated Jews will also tell you this. This does not however sit well with the military who want to wipe the Palestinians from the face of the earth. Their words, not mine.

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    Oct 3rd 2015, 7:46 PM

    @ Meital : Finding Israels treatment of the Palestinians disgusting and unacceptable makes you an anti-Semite in the same way that finding Bill Cosbys alleged treatment of women disgusting and unacceptable makes you a racist.

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    Oct 3rd 2015, 7:56 PM

    Go to hell meitel your God is waiting

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    Oct 3rd 2015, 9:22 PM

    Spot on Meital , completely agree with you , don’t mind the crowd here they are mostly Shinners who are best friends with Hamas , for all its faults Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East

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    Oct 3rd 2015, 6:34 PM

    Machine head superiority complex were have we seen that before. Germany last century.

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    Oct 3rd 2015, 6:33 PM

    Yes.

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    Oct 3rd 2015, 6:28 PM

    Yes

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    Oct 3rd 2015, 7:33 PM

    Marc that’s a bit too far. Israel as a people aren’t responsible for the actions of a few. most of them don’t want trouble with the palestinians. it’s just sad that the minority are calling the shots. no more than we are not all clowns because of some eijits in the Dail that decided irish water would be a good idea.

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    Oct 3rd 2015, 8:06 PM

    Joe your probably right I’m going too far only because I’m repulsed with the Israelis treatment of the Palestinian people

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    Oct 3rd 2015, 7:03 PM

    Left if it’s anti Semitic to be utterly repulsed by isreals campaign of terror on weaker force then I’ll wear that badge with honour

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    Oct 3rd 2015, 7:12 PM

    It’s vile that some dirt bags on here agree with that idiot dating that is ok to murder someone who’s Jewish. …..No wonder Israel exists And is what it is. …

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    Oct 3rd 2015, 7:15 PM

    but murder of a man in front of his kids is also that badge marc.

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    Oct 4th 2015, 5:35 AM

    What can you expect from an apartheid regime?

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    Oct 4th 2015, 2:46 AM

    Xionazism.

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