Candlelit vigil to take place on Main Street of Newbridge, County Kildare

A candlelit vigil will take place in Newbridge tomorrow.

The vigil will be held by Kildare Palestine Solidarity Campaign and will mark the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.

The event originated as a United Nations (UN) organized observance, and features events held at the UN headquarters in New York, as well as at the UN offices at Geneva, Vienna and Nairobi.

It is generally held on November 29 each year to mark the anniversary of Resolution 181, the proposal by the UN which advocated for the partition of Palestine into two States: one Arab and one Jewish. 

The vigil will take place on the Main Street of Newbridge, where it meets the corner of the Whitewater Shopping Centre, on Tuesday, November 29, at 6pm.