Irish military aid to France could be in form of more troops to Mali
Taoiseach Enda Kenny said no formal request for a deployment of troops had been received
While no formal request from France has yet been received, Ireland could sent troops to Mali to help relieve French troops being redeployed to fight ISIS in Syria.
At a meeting of defence ministers in the wake of Friday’s attacks in Paris, French defence minister Jean-Yves Le Drian officially became the first to invoke the treaty’s mutual defence clause.
Le Drian said that help could come in the form of “either cooperation on ...