‘Majority do not welcome him’: Trump heads to Ireland amid fury over Gaza
Protests set to erupt across Ireland, where President Connolly has long regarded the US as an untrustworthy power.
A recent poll by the Sunday Independent and Ireland Thinks reported that 69 percent do not support the US president’s visit.
“Thousands of us will march on Saturday because we refuse to normalise a man who has facilitated genocide,” Sean Radcliffe, an economics undergraduate student at Trinity College Dublin, told Al Jazeera.
Taoiseach Micheal Martin “should say it clearly, firmly, and publicly: the United States is facilitating genocide,” added Radcliffe, who is a leader of the student body’s Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions campaign.
During her campaign, Connolly said she would meet the US president in her official capacity, but added that “I doubt that [genocide] would be the discussion, I doubt that [Gaza] would be on the agenda”.