Peadar Tóibín
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201 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 4 Sep
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Yes, I think the juxtaposition of the Minister for Defence speaking str strongly and in tough language about defence and at the same time having to rely on the British to actually defend the meeting she was at is absolutely incredible.
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it is amazing that the government aren't haven't got the self awareness to even be embarrassed about the fact that we actually had to ask the British to park off the coast of Ireland and send in helicopters to check the situation.
Like, you know, the when when Finegale came to power there's well over nine thousand members of the Defence Forces, now there's seven and a half.
When Finegale came to power there were eight functional uh Navy ships, now there's only four.
Finegale is one of the biggest threats to Irish security, uh, in terms of the policy that they've delivered over the last number of years.
Oh, Mabel Connelly's the biggest threat to Irish security, Finegale.
first of all I believe in Irish neutrality, but you cannot be neutral if you don't uh invest in your own defence.
And right now we have a zero point two percent investment uh of our GDP in uh our our defence.
That is the lowest in Europe.
I think we should be aiming for at least one percent uh of our GDP to be invested uh in relation to our defence on this.
Like, you know, we have in our national interest, we have a massive uh
sea space, we have undersea cables, communication technology going uh underneath uh the sea.
And right now the ca the governments cannot defend that.
They are dependent on the RAF to defend their skies and dependent on the
And have
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Well I do think I I do think to it to it.
I think we sh I do think we should buy them.
be independent.
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