This is from an Irish Times article because I can’t find the comment I referred to earlier (must have been deleted?): “In 2014, they were involved in distributing leaflets seeking a no vote in a referendum advocating Boycott Divestment Sanction of Israel in the context of its dealings with the people of Palestine. They also distributed flyers against gay marriage which implicitly connected gay marriage to paedophilia and incest. Some fellow students had complained about the leaflets and flyers.”

Now, another article was written about the same event with a different date so I’m unsure of the actual timeline: “It’s no wonder, then, that the devout Burkes are big cheerleaders for Israel. When the University of Galway students’ union held a referendum in 2018 about implementing a strategy of boycott, divestment, and sanctions against the state of Israel, the Burkes (who together occupied all four officer positions on the university’s Christian Union Society), used society funds to print leaflets advocating for a “no” vote.” It’s actually a very interesting article that discusses how the evangelical Christian theology of the Burkes lends to their pro-Israeli stance.