McConnell Arrested At Pro-Palestine Protest

Collins Aerospace Cork MON13OCT25

People Before Profit candidate in the last local elections, Bray’s Kellie McConnell was arrested on Monday after a pro-Palestine protest in Cork.

The protest took place at the offices of Collins Aerospace, McConnell and Cork resident Myles Murphy accessing the building by ladder before hanging a banner that read ‘Collins Kills’.

The two have been charged with an offence of burglary at the Penrose Wharf premises, with Detective Garda Martin McSweeney stating that windows were broken and slogans spray painted, causing “thousands of euro” worth of damage.

Acting on behalf of Palestine Action Éire, it was the Cork Palestine Solidarity Society who streamed live Cork City Fire Brigade using a snorkel lift to move the two protestors from the third floor.

Established in Cork in 2010, Collins Aerospace is an arm of US defence contractor RTX Corporation, who have supplied equipment to Israel’s defence forces during the recently-ended Gaza conflict.

Following McConnell and Murphy’s removal from the Collins Aerospace office, Palestine Action Éire released a statement.

“Our actionists have targeted and are occupying complicit Collins Aerospace.

“The two actionists who broke into and occupied Collins Aerospace Cork have been arrested after about eight hours of occupation.

“They damaged the Collins Aerospace facilities in Penrose Wharf Business Centre, urging Penrose Wharf (P.W.) to drop Collins Aerospace. According to the actionists they ‘went to great lengths to target exclusively Collins and no other businesses in P.W.’.”

McConnell was arrested at her Bray home on Monday and appeared alongside Murphy before Cork District Court on Tuesday morning.