Russia criticises Ireland for moving away from neutrality.

Best off ignored.

sounds like a possible effort to stir up trouble and potentially legitimise Ireland as a target.

that said I’m on record here myself as saying that a lot of rumblings from politicians over the course of this conflict were not in keeping with the type of content and posture you’d expect from a neutral country…

Simon Coveney : “ This war is changing the debate in Ireland.” In the future, he added, “I think the Irish people will be more open to collective approaches to security.”

also….

“Neutrality means Ireland decides when we get involved and when we don’t,” said Coveney. In this war, however, “Ireland is not neutral.”

im his Taoiseach reading that id simply be giving him such a bollôcking the phone would be shaking in his hand.

btw he made those statements back in May during a discussion at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies…

Coveney shît stirring, an irresponsible typical FG merchant… “ Ireland is not neutral “. . . You might want to check with our government and citizens…. How he gets a seat in the Dail is beyond me.

We gave a few hundred pieces of body armor and MREs,

The main thing is we should be actively trying to improve our own defense systems

Russia can get ****ed.

How they think anyone of any significance listens to a single thing they have to say, after what they've done, needs to ease off the kool aid big style.

Others.

Lol who wants to go to that Soviet crumbling backwater anyway? Were Komrades Daly, Boyd Barrett or Wallace banned? I bet ya they werent & would be welcomed with open arms. Clowns.

As much as I wouldn't be fans of any of them, its unfair to include Boyd Barrett in the same grade of batshit crazy as Wallace and his bit.

Didn't the Government, including its Green Ministers, commit to providing uniforms, helmets, body armour, boots, field medical supplies and any other non weaponry we could spare?

Arctic level snow and ice gear? None I imagine, except maybe the ARW.

Ms Zakharova has been visibly (perhaps understandably) sauced when spewing out the nonsense line of her government, so maybe here too. Irish government neutrality has been a bit of a meme for a long time (long time neutrals like Sweden or Finland were always well prepared and spending proportionately in this country was higher). This country de-facto relies on the RAF and Royal Navy to project much of its airspace and coastal areas, so starved of funds are the Air Corp and Naval Service.