Le forze di difesa dicono a Gardaí che non possono fornire sicurezza anti-droni per le riunioni della presidenza dell’UE

But people keep saying we’re neutral and don’t need to invest in our security? /s

But seriously, it’d be just one more embarrassing display of how hopelessly dependent we are on everyone else for our security if we can’t even do the most basic of things ourselves, like providing anti-drone coverage for events as high profile as this. I’m honestly surprised the Gardai don’t even appear to have capacity in this area. It’s a capability that isn’t strictly military in nature and would see more regular use for in-house with them than the DF.

And yet we’re supposedly among the wealthiest of EU member states with year after year of budget surpluses.

When a state with our GDP cannot provide the basic security needed to protect our citizens and interests, you know we are just a sitting duck waiting to be targeted.

I have mentioned time and time again on this sub that irish neutrality is a fucking joke

Investing in defence and having the ability to defend ourself ≠ joining nato in a global domination tour

This is embarrassing on a lot of levels and speaks to the lazyness of the irish goverments 

What an embarrassment. Ireland needs a kick up the hole when it comes to defence and security. This naive thought from the last century “sure we’re Irish, we’re great craic everybody loves us” needs to be incinerated