Is Irelands neutrality stance in WW2 unfairly criticized? (see Mod note 217)

Yes, the British were certainly briefing this. To use a phrase you love, 'some would say' the British had everything to gain from that.

It doesn't sadly, given history, make it true. A major war/invasion was justified because Tony Blair was briefed about non existent weapons of mass destruction.

You, like a few other, like to personalise things. It was only after I was accused of not being Irish and having an-anti Irish bias that I mentioned "I am Irish myself, born and bred, with an Irish public service pension, having served the Irish public my working life. That does not mean all Irish politicians are above criticism".

Yes, events that nobody could predict took the focus away from Ireland.
The suggestion that Dev or anyone else could predict what might happen with any accuracy is a false one.

Dev/Ireland were reacting to ongoing events in our interests and managed to ultimately protect them. Nobody reasonable would expect a leader to do any different and the British US Russian Italian leaders etc all did the same.

Its embarrassing that you deliberately fail to mention that we were supported by all allied countries apart from the ussr in our bid to join the UN in 1946.

This shows they were not disgusted by us in 1946 as you continue to falsely claim.

A typo is once being childish was making multiple times.

Who would've thought that a Commander in the War of Independence and Commandant of the Anti-treaty troops in the civil war would be Anti British!

I've read that link three times and there is no mention of Aiken welcoming a German invasion. There is however mention Dev thinking that Germany would win, an opinion shared by the US ambassador to Britain Joseph P. Kennedy.

It looks like as usual you only read as far the bit you agreed with and didn't finish the article as spoiler: It doesn't back up your argument at all!

Edit: Let's look at what the British thought of Aiken

Although Aiken was then convinced that Britain would lose the war, John Maffey (qv), the British representative in Ireland, thought him ‘anti-British but certainly not pro-German’

I wrote ( post 759) "Not all of the 51 Allied countries who set up the UN immediately after the war understood : we applied to join in 1946 but were not allowed to until 1955. If we were not neutral in the war, we would have been allowd join a decade earlier. Safe to say all the 51 founding members of the UN would have been disgusted at Dev's condolences for Hitler too."

All of that is true. There is a reason Dev received condemnation from around the world when he went out of his way to express condolences on the death of Hitler, not long after moving pictures and proof of Hitler's death camps were shown around the world, so everyone was aware of the evils of Hitler's regime.

Why did'nt any of the 51 founding members of the UN follow us in expressing condolences in Hitlers death, if you think that was the right thing to do? 60 million or whatever died in the war Hitler started, inc many millions in extermination camps?

I have never said it was the 'right thing' to do.

Dev got it wrong, got the criticism and the world got over it. As other leaders have gotten things wrong as well. Have you not just criticised the US for getting the timing of going to war wrong?

It was 110% NOT the reason we were blocked from joining the UN.

Stop spinning and try to grasp the actual facts

But not disgusted enough to not approve our application a year after the founding of it.

If we were not neutral in the war, we would have been in the group of 51 nations who set up the UN after the war, because they were all allied nations. We were not allowed join until a decade earlier, for whatever reason or reasons as it worked out.

I think most people around the world were disgusted by Hitler's extermination camps, and many people had relatives lost in the war. It was Hitler who started the war and was the driving force in Nazism. You may not think he was such a bad fellow but I think most people do and did, ffs.

You do know 6 million Jews, handicapped etc perished in Hitlers death camps, and knowing that Dev still went out of his way to express condolences on his death?

People may have been disgusted by Dev's condolence but its clear that for the all the allies apart from USSR that there was no long lasting disgust to Ireland after 1946.

Of course there was and is a lot of disgust of what the nazis did.