Organisers of vigils in NY call for a tourism boycott

Organisers of two candlelit vigils in New York City over the past two evenings have called for a boycott of travel to Ireland in light of Savita Halappanavar’s death.

Two of Ireland’s foremost novelists were set to lead the second vigil outside the Irish consulate in Manhattan last night. On Monday night, Belinda McKeon gathered together students and faculty members at Columbia University’s Barnard College to show solidarity with similar events in Ireland. She was due to be joined by fellow New York resident Colum McCann on Park Avenue yesterday evening.

“What we’re hoping to achieve is to make the Irish Government realise the world is watching,” McKeon told reporters on Monday.