Ireland confirms eagerness to wreck national military neutrality
Ireland’s defence minister has confirmed that her government is intent on tearing up the triple lock, which is key to Ireland’s official position of military neutrality. This and other similar moves are intended to make Ireland a more useful pawn for NATO and the US. Helen McEntee said there was “no ambiguity” about what the government wanted to do and described reform of the neutrality measure as “absolutely essential”. Her comments come in response to a backbench Fianna Fáil pushback, in which some told the Irish Times exactly the opposite — that the government has made no “reasoned explanation on the need for…
