Stop The Genocide – Stop The Game

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Here are images of signs at the Derry/Donegal border expressing support for Palestine, and calling in particular for the cancellation of the forthcoming soccer matches between Ireland and Israel.

One board (shown last, below) reads, “Fáılte go Doıre. Please boycott, rally & strike to end the genocide in Palestine. RISE for Palestine.” The group “RISE For Palestine” was founded last year (2025) in response to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza (Derry Journal). “RISE” stands for “Resistance Inspires Solidarity and Equality”.

The other two boards read “Stop the genocide – stop the game” and “Red card Israel – stop the game”. Ireland is due to play two games against Israel in the Nations League on September 27th and October 4th. The games will in fact be played in Hungary and Serbia, and mostly without any fans (RTÉ). For more background and a placard in Belfast, see Stop The Game.

The figure shown as both “war criminal” and “footballer” is Menashe Zalka, captain of Hapoel Hadera and an IDF reservist, who was seen taking part in Israeli action inside Lebanon (Al Jazeera).

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We Love Israel

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These stickers are on Sandy Row in south Belfast. For background, see Ulster & Israel | This Is Our Israel | אי כניעה – the general theme of these earlier entries is to present Israel as an analogy for Northern Ireland, as colonising populations that must defend themselves – with violence if necessary – from native resistance. The IDF sticker second on the pole (in the image below) is in keeping with this interpretation. The hearts with simple assertions of “we love Israel”, with hearts, suggests a level of identity that does not require justification or interpretation.

There is also – though not present here – a religious angle; see The Lion Of Judah.

For “Soldier F’ who “was just doing his job” see Stop The Witch Hunt and Our Soldiers Are Heroes along with others such as Soldier A-Z.

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South Belfast Remembers

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“South Belfast remembers [the] 10th Royal Irish Rifles, South Belfast, [and the] 36th (Ulster) Division.” Printed panels illustrating the engagements of the British Army in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have been added to the three stones (seen in Continuing Conflicts) that marked the World Wars and “continuing conflicts”.

The conflicts depicted are the Great War 1914-1918, Second World War 1939-1945 (with individual photos of James Magennis and Blair Mayne, Korean War 1950-1953, Northern Ireland 1969-2007, Falklands War 1982 (the photo on the right is of troops “yomping”), Iraq 2003-2011, Afghanistan 2001-2023.

City Way, Sandy Row, south Belfast

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Justice Is The Handmaiden Of Truth

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Óglach Billy McKee, Óglach Alex Murphy, Óglach Breandan [Brendan/Breandán] Hughes (The Dark)” are featured in a new D Company board on the anti-Agreement wall below the Falls Garden Of Remembrance.

In the bottom corners is the emblem of Glór Na hÓglaıgh (Fb), a new (March 2026) “revolutionary republican socialist political party”, associated with Óglaıgh Na hÉıreann and feuding with the RNU.

This board takes the place of a similar RNU board, seen in Unrepentant Republicans.

As in the previous board, Alex Murphy is included (on the left); Murphy was sentenced to life imprisonment for his role in the killing of the two Signals corporals (Wood and Howes) in 1988 (UPI). He was released in 1998 under the provisions of the Agreement and died in 2019 (Pensive Quill). (The D Company board on the International Wall (Visual History) features Kieran Nugent rather than Murphy.)

Falls Road, west Belfast

Other recent additions are included below. The current line-up from left to right is: RNU Milltown – JFTC2 + Patrick Rooney – Kieran Abram – Falls Road Massacre – D Company – Falls Curfew – Charlie Hughes – Bap McGreevey – Web – Drop The Rents – HS Commemoration – Divis – Socialist Republic – Revolutionary Youth – INLA Roll – Palestine – Gino Gallagher

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People Make Sandy Row

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“People make Sandy Row” – community artwork in Sandy Row, possibly by ArtFill, who produced an earlier piece (with Codo). (See also: Life Is Tough.)

For tensions between the people living in Sandy Row, see Stop The Boats.

Maxwell Street, Sandy Row, south Belfast. For a close-up, see the Paddy Duffy Collection.

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Stop The Boats

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Here are two pieces of “stop the boats” graffiti from Sandy Row in south Belfast, part of on-going protests against immigration that have been going since 2023 and which resulted in rioting in June – see McMaster Street Remembers.

See previously: the same phrase in Tiger’s Bay, north Belfast, along with No Illegal Migrants | Keep Our Kids Safe | One Big Clean Up | Protect Our Children.

The graffiti in the final image reads “SAF UYM”. When placed next to “UYM” (“Ulster Young Militants”, the youth division of the UDA), the “S” in “SAF” is likely “Sandy Row” and not “Sudanese” (as in “Sudanese Armed Forces”, which have been engaged in a war with the Rapid Support Forces since 2023, destabilising the country and driving emigration to Europe (Sudanist)). The recent riots were sparked by a knife attack by a Somali emigrant on an east Belfast local. The damage seen in the third image is to the apartments next to the Sham Supermarket, which was attacked in the June riots and is seen here boarded up with corrugated metal panels (BBC).

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The Phoenix Arose In ’81

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The phoenix in Clowney Street was first painted in 1981 and has been repainted periodically in the same form. (For a brief history, see The Oldest Murals.) In this update, the only noticeable changes are the quotation-marks around “69” and the golden feet on the phoenix.

For the WBTA board above the phoenix (which itself goes back to at least 2012), see Alternative Transport, Alternative Location.

Clowney Street, Beechmount, west Belfast

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End Criminalisation Of Irish Republicans!

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“End criminalisation of Irish republicans! – RSYM.” A new ‘welcome to west Belfast’ mural is in progress on the first part of the long wall outside the Royal Victoria Hospital, replacing the MASH tag that unceremoniously blocked out a graffito in support of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

For now, however, the longer part of the wall (to the right of gate) remains a message-board for anti-Agreement groups, the latest one being from the Republican Socialist Youth Movement (Fb), the youth wing of the IRSP/INLA.

“Blessed are those who hunger for justice” was discussed in December 2025.

Also visible (on the right of the image above) is a dual-language traffic sign.

Falls Road, west Belfast

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The Fabulous Fleadh-Mingo

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The Fabulous Fleadh-Mingo is a one-bird band, with drum, cymbals, concertina, and tin whistle. It was brought into being by FGB (web) in Dunbar Street, Belfast city centre, for Fleadh Cheoıl Na hÉıreann, alongside works in Commercial Court, the Dark Horse, Royal Avenue, and Writers’ Square.

Another street-art flamingo, by Woskerski: Flamingo Ballroom

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