L’Irlanda non può “inviare marines” per salvare i membri di Flotilla, ha detto Dáil

I mean, we don’t have any marines in the first place to send in.

We could maybe send in a couple lads from the Reserves for a weekend? They’ll have to fly Ryanair and checking a rifle is a pain in the hole.

The triple lock prevents us from sending anymore than 12 troops to anywhere outside our own island or waters even when we’d have full dail and government approval. We’d have to get permission from the UN which the US has a veto for to even send a rescue mission in this situation. Which is evidently ridiculous for a foreign power to be able to control our military in that way.

I never thought I’d say this, but if Sinn Fein are advocating dropping the triple lock and buying several new warships for the navy I’m in full agreement with them. And maybe we could use some jet fighters for air cover, along with a heavy transport plane to transport all this kit. The government should move on this immediately while we have such political consensus.

I’m a bit lost, rescue? Shur they tipped off on their own volition. Is it not their look out?

Why support Catherine Connolly for president if you oppose the triple lock?

Don’t suppose we can invoke the defense pact of Europe? An outside military seizing an aid flotilla in European waters is an act of war. 

The triple lock made perfect sense in the 20th century. I was a huge believer in it.

But the USA, Russia and China have spent 25 years undermining the UN to such an extent that the triple lock is actually hampering our sovereignty not guaranteeing our neutrality.

I’m not for joining NATO or anything. It’s just this legislation made sense in a different global context.