Former taoiseach Bertie Ahern and former Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams will address an Oireachtas committee on Tuesday to discuss how Ireland's peace process can inform peace building in the Middle East. "We do have examples of how we solved problems, overcame obstacles, and created opportunities to end violence and engage in the patient work of sustaining a peace process through periods of difficulty as well as progress," he will say. Learnings are universalMr Ahern will tell the committee that it is "hard" to directly transfer lessons to the Middle East, but some learnings are universal. "Dialogue is the only way a genuine peace process can be achieved in the Middle East," he will say. "The international protections and legal systems that should be shielding the Palestinian people from genocide have been broken and discarded.

Source: Irish Examiner February 24, 2026 19:30 UTC