Hundreds of people have attended a music session in Dublin city in solidarity with Kneecap rapper Liam Og O hAnnaidh after he appeared in court on Wednesday. Kneecap flags and logos hung from the windows in Connolly Books, which dubs itself Ireland’s oldest radical bookshop, in solidarity with O hAnnaidh, Kneecap, and the people of Palestine.

Musician Ru O’Shea, who performed at the demonstration, said charging Kneecap member Liam Og O hAnnaidh had turned him into “a hero”