Overview

• At Electric Picnic on Saturday, Kneecap displayed on-screen messages calling Israel’s actions genocide, urged “no more Israeli war bonds,” and told the US military to “get out of Ireland.”
• Festival organizers had signaled there would be no censorship of the set, and the group drew a large, vocal crowd at the main stage.
• The performances followed the cancellation of a 15-date US tour, which the band linked to the proximity of Mo Chara’s next London court hearing in September.
• Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh faces a UK terrorism charge over an alleged Hezbollah flag display at a 2024 London gig, a case he denies and is seeking to have thrown out on timing grounds.
• A night earlier in Belfast, the trio urged a McDonald’s boycott and criticized local and UK political figures, while referencing bans and cancellations including a three-year bar from Hungary.