Triple Lock – a safeguard for Irish neutrality………………
Can Ireland stay neutral – The legacy of Frank Aiken VIDEO
A very informative seminar “The Legacy of Frank Aiken and the role of small countries in times of danger and uncertainty” was held in Dublin on 2nd April 2025, organised by Lex Innocentium 21st Century https://lexinnocentium21.ie/ and the Irish School of Ecumenics. Speakers were
Dr. Stephen Kelly (Liverpool Hope University), Dr. Patrick Bresnihan (Maynooth University) and Dr. John Maguire, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at University College Cork. A one hour video of the event can be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0HP1qNtUSg – well worth watching and you can compare Frank Aiken’s stand and work with today’s Irish government….
Erskine Childers lll on reform of United Nations
This important paper by the late Erskine Childers III was mentioned by John Maguire in his presentation to the April 2025 meeting on The Legacy of Frank Aiken, the full video of which will be available here. It has a crucial relevance to the Irish Government’s controversial plan to undo the Triple Lock which requires UN authorisation for more than 12 troops to deploy abroad.
For the context see https://www.echolive.ie/corkviews/arid-41165224.html
Save our neutrality – Save the Triple Lock
A new flyer, March 2025, from Save our Neutrality – Save the Triple Lock campaign (two sides) appears below and can be downloaded as a PDF at https://swordstoploughsharesireland.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/save-our-neutrality-leaflet-25.03.pdf
The above photo shows, from right to left, Niamh Ní Bhriain
(Transnational Institute/TNI https://www.tni.org/ ), John Maguire, Eamon Rafter, and Clare O’Connor (Mothers Against Genocide https://www.instagram.com/mothersagainstgenocide/ ) who is speaking, at a StoP press conference on protecting the Triple Lock, in Dublin on 15th November 2024 during the general election campaign in the Republic.
StoP was working to make this vital issue for Ireland’s international presence, and contribution to peace, an issue in the November 2024 general election. Short clips from what they were saying,
along with a longer recording of the press conference,
can be found on StoP’s YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@swordstoploughsharesirelan9339
The above manifesto can be downloaded at https://innatenonviolence.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Triple-Lock-Manifesto-Laid-Out-24.11.pdf
and there is a slightly edited, shorter flyer at https://innatenonviolence.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Triple-Lock-Flyer_final.pdf
You can print these yourself or send a copy to friends – and would-be TDs!
Short explanation of Triple Lock – and other resources
This is a short explanation of the Triple Lock from Niamh Ní Bhriain which is taken from the Autumn 2024 edition of Anglican Peacemaker produced by the Anglican Pacifist Fellowship.
An excellent recent detailed article on the Triple Lock by Niamh Ní Bhriain is available at https://www.tni.org/en/publication/saving-the-triple-lock and this carefully demolishes government arguments for abandoning it.
A logo produced for Afri which can be freely used in defence of the Triple Lock is available via https://www.flickr.com/photos/innateireland/53941857477/in/dateposted/
The PANA/Peace And Neutrality Alliance’s pamphlet on the Triple Lock is available at their website http://www.pana.ie
The government-run Consultative Forum on International Security Policy of June 2023 is generally seen as attempting to provide a fig leaf for the proposed ditching of the Triple Lock but it failed in doing that. See https://www.flickr.com/photos/innateireland/albums/72177720309217408/with/53008092883 and for a report by StoP on it see https://innatenonviolence.org/wp/2023/10/18/stop-report-on-consultative-forum-on-international-security/
Two print-it-yourself mini-posters (A4 size) from INNATE on the Triple Lock are available at https://innatenonviolence.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Triple-Lock-Neutrality-2.pdf and https://innatenonviolence.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Warlock.pdf
StoP video on Triple Lock
See under ‘Films’ in toolbar or click on https://youtu.be/HohfeP6VnnI?feature=shared.
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