Ireland’s president ‘proud’ of sister detained by Israel en route to Gaza – POLITICO

DUBLIN — Ireland’s president on Monday said she was “very proud” of her sister, who earlier in the day was detained by Israeli forces while sailing to Gaza as part of an aid convoy.

Margaret Connolly, a general practitioner in the town of Sligo in Ireland’s northwest, was among at least six Irish members of the Global Sumud Flotilla to be detained when Israeli troops boarded her vessel on Monday, according to Karen Moynihan, an Irish spokesperson for the pro-Gazan aid group.

President Catherine Connolly, speaking after visiting King Charles at Buckingham Palace in London, said she was “very proud of my sister but I’m also very worried about her.”