The core of the issue.
Ireland remains an outlier for its legal ban on nuclear energy
Answer the second question accurately, and you’ll understand why the answer to the first is “they wouldn’t”.
‘We are in an era of rearmament’
Irish voters are already open to increased military spending. Once you have conceded that point, everything else likely falls into place.
GAEC 2 rules could be ‘catastrophic for farmers’
But Ireland can hardly complain about the refusal to admit Boylan to Israel while it maintains the absurd fiction that Ireland itself might put Netanyahu in chains and bring him to justice.
The simple answer to the question of “why should Irish young men be prepared to die to defend Latvia” is that the defence of Latvia is, in fact, a vital Irish national interest.
No debate on this
For those in Ireland who ferociously oppose things like “an EU army”, then the basic reality is that Donald Trump’s policies on Ukraine and EU defence make that kind of thing vastly more likely.
Lambasted censorship
“Unjustified”.