Mick Barry (Cork North Central, Solidarity) | Oireachtas source

Almost every week the Taoiseach tells the Dáil that the State is not politically neutral but is militarily neutral. I wish to quote from an article in the journal.ieearlier this month:

For decades Irish soldiers have trained on the high uplands of Kilworth ranges, located just off the old Cork to Dublin road between the towns of Fermoy and Mitchelstown. ... The laughs and banter of the Irish accents were mixed with foreign voices on the day The Journal visited. There are a host of European uniforms from Germany, Czech Republic, Austria and other locations and even a US uniform mixing with the various men and women. ... [There are] yellow vest wearing soldiers taking notes with a distinctive patch on their arms. These are, uniquely in an Irish setting, NATO assessors. ... One of those assessors is US Navy Commander Sam Mason [on loan from the US military] as part of the European command of NATO.

Ireland is not politically neutral but is militarily neutral. I do not think they were talking politics up there in Kilworth. The Taoiseach might care to explain to the Dáil exactly what is going on here.

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