OPINION: Ireland is the ultimate defense freeloader. trib.al/9Bk5jW6

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Great article Patrick Gibbons 👏 Ireland’s centre has held spectator.co.uk/article/irelan…

President Higgins has another go at NATO. He would have an entirely different sensibility if he lived in the Baltic states or others that know Russian predation. He continues to exemplify Ireland’s ‘ostrich’ mentality when it comes to security and defence. We need to grow up.

Higgins seems to reside in a ‘Kumbya’ world where the only thing necessary to achieve world peace is dialogue across national boundaries. It is naive in the extreme to be spouting this 1960s ‘world peace’ discourse.Especially at a time of colossal security challenges in Europe.

Ireland, whose safety is de-facto guaranteed by NATO, and which not only rides for free but also grandstands lecturing others who, unlike her, don’t have the luxury of being an island off an island off the safe side of Europe and today face an existential threat.

When is the Govt going to finally realise that our minuscule defence spending & privileged lecturing of our friends is leading to the US seeing us as a free-rider & Europe seeing us as a joke?

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⁦Fine Gael⁩ ⁦Irish Foreign Ministry⁩ Surely now is the time for Ireland to step up and give real support to Ukraine? 1/2 search.app/bNZHhvAjgMSCZ5…

Here are some genuine fake news that the Whitehouse now spouts: 1. We have given over double what Europe has to Ukraine. ❌ In fact Europe has given more. 1/3

Germany’s potential next chancellor Friedrich Merz warns Europe must prepare for a future without U.S. security guarantees. YEPP has long called for stronger EU defence, urging 3% GDP spending & an independent nuclear deterrent. Read our resolution👉 youthepp.eu/wp-content/upl…

Best example yet of the real reason most Irish politicians just keep saying “we need to have a debate about our defence policy”…to avoid making decisions about our defence policy!

On Ireland’s defence capacity

The point of deterrence is that u spend money on missiles & drones precisely so that you never have to use them. If you don’t, you’ll end up spending a lot more money repairing those schools & hospitals… Rest of Europe doesn’t have the luxury to choose. thetimes.com/world/ireland-…

A strong team Young Fine Gael at YEPP Congress 2025 ! 🇮🇪 🇪🇺 And a huge congratulations to YFGs own Eoin Scarlett on his election as Deputy Secretry General. 💪

This from the same woman who said only a year ago: “Ireland will never be able to have an army. We do not need an army”. And now she wants to be the ceremonial head of the Defence Forces…🤯🤯🤯 irishtimes.com/politics/2025/…

🚨 Is the U.S. guarantee over for Europe? David McAllister (EP AFET Chair) on what Europe must do now. 🧭 🔗 Full conversation: youtu.be/d1jcTThNLC4?si… 🎧

If any other TD had: – Used taxpayer money to whitewash Assad – Nominated O’Doherty – Lied about expenses – Used limos – Helped repossess homes while decrying repossessions – Slipped in a convicted firearms offender into Leinster House …would we call that smears? /15

Wrote about the reaction to the UK's asylum reforms in Ireland. Immigration is the biggest issue facing both Shabana Mahmood & Irish minister Jim O'Callaghan, but their political fortunes map similarly too 👇 spectator.co.uk/article/will-m…