Letters to the Editor: Sarah Harte's column about Gaza was both heartening and heartbreaking 

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The 18th protest march through Cork City centre organised by the Cork Palestine Solidarity Campaign on Saturday February 10. Picture: Larry Cummins

It was both heartening and heartbreaking to read Sarah Harte’s description of the protests organised by the Cork Palestine Solidarity Campaign — ‘Ministers must speak out against war on Gaza while visiting the US’ (Irish Examiner, February 7).

Heartening because it gives hope to see the empathy and depth of feeling on the streets of Ireland for the beleaguered people of Palestine. The anti-war demonstration mentioned was the seventeenth march through the city of Cork in solidarity with Gaza since the slaughter began last October. What a tremendous effort by the extraordinary people of Cork. Well done to everybody who has turned up to make their voices heard. They make me proud to be from Cork.