Tens of thousands of people have attended a Palestine solidarity march in Dublin city centre.
The protest left Parnell Square around 1.30pm, marched down O'Connell Street and ended at St Stephen's Green. Protesters called for sanctions and the explusion of the Israeli ambassador.
Speakers included Karen Gearon, a former shop steward for the Dunnes Store strikers who campaigned against apartheid in South Africa in the 1980s, who now called for sanctions against Israel.
People Before Profit TD Richard Boyd Barrett claimed that the repeated protests for Palestine are influencing government policy.
He said no Irish politician should shake hands with US President Joe Biden because of his support for Israel.
Organisers say 50,000 people took part and that this is not as big as a previous national protest for Palestine which claimed 100,000.
Zoe Lawlor, the Chair of the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign, told the crowd: "We come here together as we have for five months, all over the country, in pain in anger in grief and in rejection of the atrocities that is against the Palestinian people.
"We are here to say no to genocide, no to ethnic cleansing no to forced starvation...and no to Israeli apartheid."
More than 80 Irish civil society groups also took part.
There was also due to be musical performances on a stage near the Department of Foreign Affairs.
Gardaí arrested two men for public order offences in Dublin city centre this afternoon, close to the protest.
It is not clear whether they were taking part in the demonstration.
