This week, Newstalk Breakfast hosts Ciara Kelly and Shane Coleman explained why they think Ireland should scrap its historic policy of military neutrality. And while I’m not having a go at them (I do enjoy some of their commentary), they were totally wrong on this issue.
The discussion on neutrality started with Ciara Kelly saying that she believes Ireland has a “child-like” and “naïve” attitude towards defence, adding that Ireland’s neutrality just makes us a “soft-target”:
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