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The Mid Ulster Ireland-Palestine Solidarity campaigners to hold protest outside council office
The MUIPSC says it has learned that Mid Ulster Council approved an extension to F-35 program factory Moyola Precision Engineering in May 2025
Campaigners will protest outside the council offices in Dungannon.
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25 Nov 2025 3:33 PM
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The Mid Ulster Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign (Mid Ulster IPSC), has announced that on Thursday, November 27 at 7pm it will hold a protest outside the Mid Ulster Council offices in Dungannon during the council meeting.
The MUIPSC says it has learned that Mid Ulster Council approved an extension to F-35 program factory Moyola Precision Engineering in May 2025 in 'a complete betrayal of our council’s BDS policy and campaigners and communities opposed to the arms trade complicit in genocide'.
Israel uses F-35 fighter jets as their primary source of bomb delivery on Gaza, over 20,000 children have been murdered by these bombs since 2023.
Through InvestNI, nearly £20 million has been handed to five companies in the North that supply parts for the F-35 program. Stormont has also given millions of pounds of rates relief to these very companies.
Mid Ulster IPSC spokesperson Pádraig Mac Niocaill said: "Moyola Precision Engineering, boasted about their supply of F35 air frame parts until public pressure caused them to hide it from their site.
"The fact that MUDC has approved an extension to this complicit factory, with the Planning Committee stating completely silent, is a stain on this Mid Ulster. No alarm or awareness was raised by any self-proclaimed 'pro-Palestine' councillors of this development. The MUIPSC is raising questions as to how the vote went, and why the vocal community and campaigners weren’t informed.
The protest will also condemn the inclusion of Moyola PE and other arms manufacturers in the MEGA Student Expo, an event supported by Mid Ulster Council, Invest NI, and the Department for the Economy, which brought companies involved in the arms trade into contact with schoolchildren.
"Recently Moyola took part in a careers event for school children, in which all the Mid Ulster secondary schools were in attendance. Children were being brought in to be shown this company as a model of opportunity and success. How can a government tell us this is education and aspiration, while these companies are profiting from genocide?
"What exactly are we teaching our children? That you can build weapons used against other children and still be celebrated? That genocide is acceptable so long as it creates jobs?
"We refuse that. Education should teach empathy. Engineering should build life. We say: Not in our name. Not with our taxes. Not in front of our children.” Mid Ulster IPSC spokesperson Saoirse O’Neill said.
Mr Mac Niocaill added: “The BDS movement is extremely clear that states, companies and institutions connected to the F-35 programme are COMPLICIT in Genocide.
"There is no doubt that Moyola Precision Engineering is a participant in the F-35 programme, funded by the Stormont Economy Department through InvestNI, with a very high likelihood of the components it manufactures being used to slaughter children in Gaza.
"Local campaigners have been on the ground protesting Moyola's Gaza complicity and it is of great concern that Mid Ulster Council waved through a massive extension of the company's facility amidst the horror of genocide without objection.
"At a time when we need a complete nationwide suspension of all involvement in the genocide arms program, we are met with silence by Mid Ulster political representatives.”
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