“They tried to stop this gig,” Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh (aka Mo Chara) proclaimed at the start of Kneecap’s long-awaited set on Friday night. “Honestly lads, you’ve no idea how close we were to being pulled off this gig. Has anybody been watching the news?”

Rap trio Kneecap are set to headline a festival on Friday, just two days after one of their members was charged with a terror offence. Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh, who performs under the stage name Mo Chara, has been charged over the alleged display of a flag in support of Hezbollah at a gig at

Kneecap have released a defiant statement after Mo Chara was charged with a terrorism offence. Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh, also known as Mo Chara, was charged yesterday for allegedly displaying a flag in support of Hezbollah.

Irish rap group Kneecap has claimed a terrorism charge against one of their members is part of a campaign to stop them from performing at Glastonbury this summer.

The British authorities have brought trumped-up charges against a member of Irish hip-hop group Kneecap in a bid to stifle criticism of their own complicity with Israeli war crimes. But no amount of legal harassment can stop the truth from getting out.