Defence Neutrality group calls for emergency Dáil debate on Ukraine weapon trainingIrish Neutrality League labelled plans to provide weapon training to Ukrainian forces as a ‘incontrovertible breach of neutrality’
Comment Elaine Byrne: European elections will force our politicians to pick a side on issue of neutralityOur traditional defence policy may well prove to be a crucial – and delicate – issue for parties and independents alike in next year’s European Parliament ballot
Politics Neasa Hourigan slams Tánaiste’s ‘sham’ security forum Green Party TD has questioned what Micheál Martin is ‘playing at’
Security No referendum on neutrality by this government, Taoiseach saysLeo Varadkar insisted there was no “perceived outcome’ of the government’s security forum and that it was not about Nato membership or changing the Irish state’s policy on neutrality
Analysis Lucinda Creighton: Higgins has no legitimacy lecturing the government about foreign policy, peace or neutralityThe President seems to have a growing disdain for experts who might confront his own archaic, Marxist political bias – it’s about time the government challenged his hugely damaging political posturing
Politics Protesters anything but neutral as Martin fumes at the forumPresident Michael D Higgins’s neutrality debate intervention in the Business Post last week has raised the prominence and the stakes of the Consultative Forum on International Security Policy
Politics Sinn Féin would hold referendum on neutrality, says CarthyParty’s spokesman on foreign affairs and defence says it would take steps to enshrine our neutral position in the constitution
Red C Poll Plenty of people not sure where they stand on Nato membershipWhile new poll shows 38 per cent of Irish people are opposed to Ireland joining Nato and 34 per cent support the idea, a hefty 28 per cent said they don’t know
Security President’s son criticises ‘alarmist tone’ of security forumMichael Higgins Jr says Ireland’s future security is ‘much better served by phone calls rather than fighter jets’
Politics Michael D Higgins’ son hits out at ‘alarmist tone’ of security forumMichael Higgins Jr said that Ireland’s future security is “much better served by phone calls rather than fighter jets”
Politics Protestors call for citizens’ assembly on neutrality ‘not stitch-up’ forumActivist Margaretta D’Arcycalls for Ireland’s security and foreign policy to be discussed through the alternative forum of a citizens’ assembly
Politics Anti-war protestors interrupt Micheál Martin and Louise Richardson’s opening of security forumProtestors, bearing a red banner with the slogan ‘Nato Wars, Millions Dead’ criticised the membership of the panels
Defence Taoiseach stresses country’s commitment to ‘military neutrality’Without referencing remarks made by the President on neutrality to this newspaper, Leo Varadkar said Ireland will not join Nato
Politics President apologises to security forum chair for ‘throwaway remark’The comments have been subject to sharp political backlash and public scrutiny
Front Page In this week’s Business Post: Ireland is ‘playing with fire’ in ‘dangerous drift’ towards NatoOur columnists on security and Sinn Féin and what next for the GPO?
Special Report Big Read: Neutrality or Nato – Ireland debates its place in a divided worldSupport for Irish neutrality has remained consistent for many years, with four in five people wanting to maintain the policy
Special Report President: We must not drift into Nato and become buried in other people’s agendas Speaking exclusively to the Business Post, President Michael D Higgins sounds a loud warning about Ireland ‘drifting’ towards military alliances
Politics Paul Johnston: Democracies like Ireland and the UK have to move faster and further to combat rogue states The British ambassador believes the world has become more dangerous and this country’s debate over our security policy is to be welcomed
Business Post's View Debate on neutrality must be centre-stage and not consigned to the marginsAfter decades of coasting on neutrality and leaning on our better-armed neighbours, we will at last bring this essential national policy question to the fore
Special Report Decades of underinvestment have left Ireland exposedThe country doesn’t need a large army, but it does need better paid soldiers and sailors, and equipment that is focused on the kinds of assault we might experience