A new civic group, the Louth Neutrality Network, was launched yesterday on the anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing to defend Irish neutrality and oppose the government’s shift toward military alignment.
Founded by local citizens, family members of current and former UN peacekeepers and peace advocates, the group is particularly critical of what it calls Fianna Fáil’s retreat, from its historic commitment to peace, shaped by figures like Frank Aiken who championed nuclear disarmament and introduced the UN resolution that became the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Aoife Herr from Louth Neutrality Network joined us on The Agenda this morning to talk to us some more about this.