Facing facts on maritime security and defence

“Neither King nor Kaiser,” exclaimed left wing People Before Profit TD Paul Murphy in the Dáil this week.

“The best defence that we have is a consistent position of neutrality … We have the position that Connolly put forward,” he said.

A vexed Taoiseach shot back; “If anything happened subsea cables, if anything happened to the gas interconnector with Britain we wouldn’t have an economy in ten days! Are you saying we shouldn’t cooperate with Britain to protect the gas interconnector…are you saying we should ignore all of our European partners in protecting critical infrastructure such as subsea cables…what planet are you on?”

The two were debating…

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