Neutrality below the trigger
The Defence (Amendment) Bill 2026 removes the UN-mandate leg of the triple lock and raises the Dail-vote threshold from twelve troops to fifty. The official …
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Months and years
The June 2025 war on Iran depleted roughly half of US Patriot, half of US THAAD and half of US SM-3 inventories, plus more than …
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Ireland's defence is cyber, and the politics needs to catch up
Three quarters of Northern Hemisphere subsea cables pass through or near Irish waters. The Defence Forces have just signed a €60 million Thales sonar contract …
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This Is Not Normal
You already know something is wrong. You've known for a while. The news cycle confirms it daily: climate collapse accelerating past every guardrail, genocide broadcast …
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The Fab and the Island
For two decades, the strategic conversation about Taiwan has been organised around the wrong question. The wrong question is whether China will invade Taiwan, and …
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It Is Too Much
It is too much. That is the first thing to say, and most of the writing about the present moment will not say it, because …
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The Island That Went First
So imagine this. A political movement based on a doctrine of acceptance, the kind described in our previous article, gains power in Ireland. Not in …
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The Blue Line in the Sand
On Sunday morning, an Indonesian peacekeeper was killed by a projectile that struck a United Nations position near the village of Adchit Al Qusayr, in …
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Is This Neutrality?
The 'rebooted' UK-Ireland defence agreement signed in Cork on 14 March 2026 updates a 2016 memorandum to cover subsea cable threats and cyber-attacks. It is …
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Persistent Maritime Monitoring for Ireland's Exclusive Economic Zone
Ireland faces a critical maritime security gap. The Naval Service, operating at 65% of authorised strength, completed only 428 patrol days in 2024. This concept …
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