Politics
Protesters anything but neutral as Martin fumes at the forum
President 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
Within minutes of the beginning of the government’s Consultative Forum on International Security Policy, the photograph of Micheál Martin at the lectern, snarling in frustration at protestors bearing anti-Nato posters, became its defining image.
It has highlighted the degree to which President Michael D Higgins’s intervention has raised the prominence and the stakes of the forum. Protests almost certainly would have taken place at the events — it was subjected to vigorous criticism even before ...
