Ireland's government insists it will not join NATO and has no plans to abandon the country's long-held policy on military neutrality amid a row over a government-sponsored forum on international ...

There are fewer non-aligned European countries after Finland and Sweden joined Nato, while Denmark has dropped its rejection ...

"Iniúchadh TG4 – Éire Neodrach?" ("TG4 investigates - Neutral Ireland?") a new documentary examining the impact of world events on Ireland’s neutrality, debuts tonight, Wednesday, July 19, on TG4 in ...

WE need to scrap the UN veto on where we send our troops and pump money into the military, according to the Government. But those against the idea fear Fianna Fail and Fine Gael are slowly eroding ...

"The hottest place in hell is reserved for those who remain neutral at a time of moral crisis,” Dante wrote, and Ireland must be approaching that fiery cauldron as we write. The war in Ukraine has ...

Private Secretary to the Irish Minister for Defence, Andrew Beltran, has written to Mid Ulster District Council, to seek to reassure ...

Opposition parties and politicians have relaunched the Irish Neutrality League in a bid to protest planned changes to the triple lock. The league was reconvened during the last Oireachtas term ...

FILE - Ireland's Prime Minister Micheal Martin speaks on Dec. 10, 2020, at the European Council building in Brussels. (John Thys/ Pool FILE via AP) DUBLIN (AFP) — A public debate on Ireland’s ...

THAT NEUTRAL ISLAND: A CULTURAL HISTORY OF IRELAND DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR By Clair Wills Belknap/Harvard University Press, $35, 502 pages, illus. REVIEWED BY MARTIN RUBIN In “That Neutral Island, ...

Ireland has a long-standing policy of military neutrality - Copyright AFP Mandel NGAN Ireland has a long-standing policy of military neutrality - Copyright AFP Mandel ...