Neasa Hourigan slams Tánaiste’s ‘sham’ security forum

Neasa Hourigan, the Green Party TD, has questioned what Tánaiste Micheál Martin is “playing at” by setting up a “sham” forum on Irish neutrality.

She has warned that the consultative forum on international security policy, which is holding its final public meeting in Dublin Castle today, would lead to an attempt to get rid of the “triple lock.” This is the requirement for the deployment of Irish troops on missions abroad to be authorised by ...