Michael Fitzmaurice TD on legalising pepper spray, tasers
The general assumption of pro-neutrality people in Ireland tends to be that because the threats to us are so low, defence is really not a requirement.
Defence Forces group will facilitate serving members gender transition
Simon Coveney says that neutrality means taking sides “from a military support point of view” in conflicts which don’t involve us. @Ben_Scallan says someone get this man a dictionary pronto.
“Proud to wear the uniform.”
One of Sinn Féin’s biggest critiques of the Irish government is that parties like Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael are not serious about military neutrality. In the run-up to the 2019 local election, Sinn Féin urged the public to “defend neutrality” by voting for them “because others can’t be trusted.” They added that “you can’t […]
In 1913, some of Ireland’s founding fathers as it were, The O’Rahilly, Pádraig Pearse & Eoin MacNeill amongst others, came together to predicate the Irish Volunteers. The impetus for this founding was due to the militarisation of Unionism, in the form of the 100,000 strong Ulster Volunteer Force. Sadly, the Irish Defence Forces are in […]
You know that our country is in a bad position when we’re in the midst of a major crisis, and the people in charge think that key words mean the precise opposite of what they actually mean. This week, amid the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine, Defence Minister Simon Coveney decided to tell the Dáil […]
“For the first time ever, the European Union will finance the purchase and delivery of weapons”
The truth is that from a purely nationalist perspective, the calculations do not change much whether an aggressor considers us neutral or not
Reversing decades of foreign policy
Tánaiste Leo Varadkar has said that if Russia and Ukraine go to war, there could be “hundreds of thousands” of civilians displaced, and that Ireland would be willing to take in refugees from the conflict. The remarks were made in the Dáil yesterday, after Independent TD Cathal Berry asked the Tánaiste what preparations the government […]