Forum to look at a variety of security policy issues, including new threats such as cyber attacks

Finland and Sweden, two peaceful Ireland-sized nations, are making moves to join Nato – and there are few good reasons why we shouldn’t join too

Recent events in eastern Europe have thrown Ireland’s longstanding policy of neutrality into sharper focus, with increasingly strident elements of the commentariat claiming that the public needs to ‘grow up’ on the issue. But most of the population remains reluctant to abandon a stance that has served the country well for a century

Almost half of people polled say they would vote yes in a referendum on the issue and 48 per cent believe Ireland should join Nato

The world has changed fundamentally since the invasion on February 24, and we must throw our lot in with the rest of Europe in responding to the crisis

Ireland’s assistance should be humanitarian, focussed on the provision of food, shelter, water and repair of vital infrastructure

As Russia’s sabre-rattling over Ukraine makes clear, we need greater public debate on national security in this country