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    1. Sea-Seesaw-2342 on

      Embarrassing. We are leaching off our allies and geographical location. Yes, to staying neutral but also yes to having a strong naval presence to patrol and defend our vast ocean waters and protecting the undersea cables etc that we depend on.

    2. Rabid_Lederhosen on

      We could really do with a proper navy to back that up though.

    3. Shane_Gallagher on

      Ireland has been militarily neutral since independence (yes we had our favourites in wars) and it should continue into the future

    4. MordauntSnagge on

      At some point, your fellow EU’ers are going to notice that you’re hoovering up a lot of taxes but not contributing to the bloc’s defence. Why not preempt that by buying some maritime patrol aircraft? It’s still in keeping with the “neutral” sentiment, but means you’re actually offering a real capability to help both yourselves and your allies. If you get some P8s you can probably swing some sort of joint maintenance agreement with the RAF.

    5. Britterminator2023 on

      Like Collins knew he signed his own death warrant anyone who would sign away our neutrality would sign theirs

    6. spiralism on

      Good. Now let’s actually get our defence forces up.to scratch to ensure that and to stop making our neighbours look after our security for us.

    7. DazzlingGovernment68 on

      > according to a poll commissioned by the campaigning platform Uplift.

      Sus

    8. Original-Salt9990 on

      It’s a bit embarrassing that we’re using that as an excuse to freeload off others for our defence, and don’t even have the barest minimum of capabilities in some important areas.

      We can’t even see what’s going on in our own backyard and our lads need to hitch a ride with other militaries or commercial airlines to get around as needed. We really need to find the DF much, much better than we’ve done in previous decades.

    9. SERGIONOLAN on

      Ireland can’t be neutral anymore.

      Russia has had ships in our territorial waters on several occasions. A clear act of aggression, the HSE hack.

      Plus we lack the military forces necessary for proper neutrality.

      Ireland needs to join NATO.

      Anyone who wants Ireland to remain neutral is living in fantasy land.

    10. ShouldHaveGoneToUCC on

      Our current neutrality policy relies on the UK for our defence.

      They want to keep that?

    11. Fern_Pub_Radio on

      Poll conducted on behalf of a bunch of whack jobs who would willing turn their arses to Russia et al and scream “can’t we all just hold hands!”, idiots. Triple Lock is a slieveen cowards charter , I don’t care if people get the flutters about NATO but as a minimum we should not cede our global involvement to Moscow Beijing etc which is exactly what this yellow belly bit of legislation does. Time to grow a pair and take an active part in the defence of Europe especially EU and yes that means military because feather dusters have a strange habit of failing when up against despots

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