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Ireland's Dail Passes Law Prohibiting Israeli Goods from Territories
(Irish News) The Dail, the lower house of Ireland's Parliament, passed legislation on Thursday to prohibit the import of Israeli goods produced in the West Bank by a vote of 78 to 45. In earlier debates on the bill, the deputy head of government, Simon Coveney, said the Attorney General had advised it was not legally implementable because trade was an EU competence and not an Irish one. Ahead of the vote, Catholic bishops Noel Treanor, of the Down and Connor diocese, and Alan McGuckian SJ, of the Raphoe diocese in County Donegal, urged Dail members to support the bill.