About Us
We are a group of Irish peace activists, coming from different backgrounds and organisations but sharing a fervent belief that a prosperous future for Ireland and for humanity can only be achieved through peaceful resolution of all disputes and conflicts. We have come together to give our time, our energy and our expertise to protect Irish neutrality for all of us and for future generations.
We are deeply shocked and troubled by our current government’s attempts to undermine the neutrality of our nation and to do it in a way which is deceitful and does not include any discussion or involvement of the Irish people in that decision. This is not democracy.
Irish neutrality is what has kept us out of foreign conflicts and kept our soldiers from being part of armies circling the globe in the supposed spread of democracy while in fact they oppress native populations, ravage their lands and steal their resources.
The Triple Lock is the linchpin which holds and will continue to hold our neutral position into the ever more uncertain future. In a world becoming more militarised and more dangerous, it is imperative now more than ever that Ireland remains neutral, that we use our voice in the international arena as the voice of reason, of justice and of peace and that our soldiers continue to be respected in their vitally important work as peacekeeping forces.
Speaker Bios
Peadar King is a documentary film maker, lecturer and non-fiction writer. For the past two decades, he has produced and occasionally presented the RTÉ Global Affairs series “What in the World?”. His latest publications include “The Art of Place: The People and Landscape of Co Clare” (2022) and “War, Suffering and the Struggle for Human Rights” (2020). He is currently working on his fifth book “Mediaocracy: Ideology and the Irish media”.
Niamh Ní Bhriain is a researcher, writer and programme coordinator at the Transnational Institute. She has over 15 years of experience working with civil society organisations and the United Nations on questions of war, conflict and peace in Latin America and Europe. She holds an LLM in International Human Rights Law from the Irish Centre for Human Rights at the University of Galway.
Fionn Wallace is a former parliamentary researcher and speechwriter. He has worked for 12 years between Dáil Éireann and the European Parliament, focusing on foreign, defence and security policy. He holds a BA in history and philosophy and an MA in philosophy from University College Dublin.
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