Kabinett will Pläne zur Abschaffung der Dreifachsperre genehmigen

The only way the UN remains fit for purpose into the future is if the security council is abolished

I’m curious if Catherine Connolly will say something about this because if this is passed then she’ll have to sign it into law.

Fuck the government putting future children into wars for America corporations. Neutrality should be the aim of all nations but money and especially US money is crack to politicians.

Queue Sinn Fein arguing in support of Britain’s veto on Irish troop deployments…

Yes they did that and yes it’s just as silly as it sounds.

Not only did they do that but PBP and Soc Dems did the same.

Im pretty sure Soc Dems lost a lot of support amongst their base because they assumed their voters didn’t understand how the triple lock and the UN bodies actually work in practice.

„Oh well we better do what the bigger leftist party is doing and toe the line on this triple lock thing…“(Soc dem polling team probably).

I should note i lean centre left and am frustrated with pretty much every party flip flopping with hypocrisy evrry two minutes. I could write an entire encyclopedia on the shortcomings of FF and FG but its no wonder the alternative parties don’t get the votes when they assume their voters are too stupid/emotional to read into their conflations and half truths.

They have to be so much better than FF and FG. I’m not saying that it is fair but they’re competing with legacy parties in a country where politics is largely based on historical family ties.

In my opinion.

https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2025/02/23/proposals-to-change-triple-lock-potentially-very-dangerous-sinn-fein/

It looks like the Government (led by an increasingly autocratic Micheál Martin) are refusing to entertain any level of additional oversight for deployment of Irish troops abroad.

The Oireachtas Defense Committee proposed that we should at least have a formal legal review, but it looks like this has been dismissed out of hand by the Government – 

„One source said this would be ‚getting rid of one triple lock and replacing it with another‘.“

So taking the argument against the current triple-lock in good faith (that the UN Security Council vetos mean no troops will be ever deployed again), what reason could the current Government have for not wanting more oversight by our elected officials for something as serious as foreign troop deployment?

This shows that this whole thing has nothing to do with what’s best for the Irish people, the country or our democracy but is a cynical way for the Government to gain more control because they believe they know better than the rest of us. 

EDIT: The war hawks and COD fetishisers here can downvote all they want but they can’t give a single good reason why the Dáil shouldn’t have more oversight for overseas troop deployment.

Gearing up for conflict. Let’s introduce conscription, get you lads match fit. All those years playing computer games in your mam’s gaff will really stand too you.
Get yez all ready for a deployment.

Good,about time.

Why should we listen to the UN on what we should do? They don’t actually do anything. Like look at what’s happening in the world and all they have is speeches and maybe sanctions that barely hinder anything. The world is changing quicker than they can act.

We need to look after ourselves and those who and what we care about without some slow, seemingly ineffective, overly bureaucratic organisation telling us what is for the greater good

Troops can be deployed for more than just peacekeeping missions. They can be deployed for humanitarian missions, peace enforcement missions, training missions, and so on.

My point is that it shouldn’t be anyone but Ireland itself that decides the circumstances of an Irish troop deployment overseas.

Ukraine is just an example of a conflict where it might well be in our best interest to contribute troops in circumstances where Russia has already stated they won’t accept any western peacekeepers on Ukrainian territory. Russia is a bad-faith and biased actor here so ultimately we should be in a position where we can tell Russia to go fuck themselves and send troops, if we decided to do so. The government and DF will no doubt consider the merits of doing so but again, arbitrarily restricting our ability to deploy troops because of something like a triple lock is just plain fucking stupid in this day and age. Even the US is looking more and more like an unfriendly nation and they also have a seat on the UNSC, so potentially there are even more blocks than before. They were already the driving force behind the UNAFIL mission not being extended which has directly impacted on the DF, so why continue like this?

People would really want to look into and research what the triple lock is, in short it is what makes us neutral. Without the triple lock we are f**ked, we’re going be joining NATO now before you no it. Anyone celebrating this are literally turkeys voting for Christmas