Under the lock, any foreign intervention must be approved by the government, the Dáil (the Irish parliament’s lower house) and the UN Security Council. Lifting the requirement for UN approval could ...

Ireland thus had the unusual distinction of having had a foreign policy and a diplomatic service before there was an internationally recognised independent Irish state. The origins of the modern ...

Discussions on the major change in Irish foreign and defence policy have been ongoing for years, with the proposal first being floated by then taoiseach Micheál Martin in 2023. But what exactly ...

This will continue a long process of compartmentalisation when it comes to the US and Irish foreign policy, with its attendant history of currying favour, enlisting help and shadow language to ...

All practical policy is aimed at this ... According to the head of the Irish Foreign Ministry, the government intends to increase this number to 50 servicemen, and replace the clause on the ...

Carter’s initiative was opposed by London, the US State Department, the CIA and the American foreign policy establishment ... counsellor (political) at the Irish embassy in Washington and ...

Irish-American author Edward McSorley's novel ... On March 29, 1950, in the shadow of St. Patrick's Day, Fogarty scorched U.S. foreign policy with an electrifying amendment to the Marshall ...

The Naval Service was unable to join an operation to take on international drug smugglers because of Ireland’s controversial triple lock military policy ... as well as Foreign Affairs, said ...

Ireland thus had the unusual distinction of having had a foreign policy and a diplomatic service before there was an internationally recognised independent Irish state. The origins of the modern ...