More than one hundred people are protesting in Dublin over the ongoing war in Gaza.
The demonstration is being held at Barnardo Square on Dame Street in Dublin as American football fans gather for the opening fixture of the US college football season.
The protest was organised by the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign.
Demonstrators are lining part of Dame Street with a 30 metre red banner, which they say symbolises US President Joe Biden's non-existent red line for Israel’s genocidal actions in Gaza.
The IPSC says Israel has crossed President Biden's red lines on numerous occasions without any action from the White House.
The group is calling for the US government to end its funding of arms to Israel.
It also calling for an Irish inspection regime to ensure that weapons or military technology are not being transported to Israel via Irish airspace.
In a separate demonstration in Cork city, around 800 people marched to show solidarity with Palestine.
The march was led by student groups such as the Global Justice Society of University College Cork, who collaborated with the Cork branch of the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign to organise the event.
Last week, the health ministry in Gaza said that the death toll from the conflict has reached at least 40,000 people, with another 90,000 wounded. The UN rights office says most of the dead are women and children.
Taoiseach Simon Harris said last week that the death toll in Israel’s ten-month assault on Gaza is a "milestone the world must be ashamed of".
The United States has said that progress has been made at the latest round of Gaza truce talks which are taking place in Egypt.
Representatives of Hamas, whose unprecedented 7 October attack on Israel triggered the war in Gaza, said that the Palestinian militant group was sending a delegation to Cairo today but that they would not attend Gaza ceasefire talks in the Egyptian capital.
Egypt, Qatar and the United States have for months been trying to reach a deal to end the conflict.
