Downing Street Warns Sally Rooney She Could Face Prosecution If She Supports Palestine Action
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Downing Street Warns Sally Rooney She Could Face Prosecution If She Supports Palestine Action

2025-08-19

Award-winning Irish author Sally Rooney has said she would donate her earnings from her books to support Palestine Action, with Downing Street warning that she risks facing a terrorist offence if she does so.

The group was recently proscribed as a terrorist organisation in the UK.

Mark Paul, London Correspondent with the Irish Times, spoke to Frank Greaney on Tuesday’s The Last Word.

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