War! Is Ireland ready? And will your emergency booklet save you?
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Why is the Irish government sending the ‘Be Emergency Ready’ booklet now?
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Would you be ready if you heard that sound in Ireland? It might seem unlikely, but two million households across the country have started receiving a booklet with advice on what to do in the event of a major emergency. But what should we be worried about? Storms, floods, and nuclear disaster?
Unfortunately, I don't think we have the luxury these days of not preparing for these types of things.
The booklets are arriving against a backdrop of increasing fears that Russia is finding new ways of unsettling our lives. It's something we often talk about here in Ireland, but our European neighbours are already taking action.
For example, the Latvia one, which is called 72 Hours, it's all about surviving the first 72 hours. The Latvian army will not surrender. So essentially they want civil society to be at their backs, all playing a role supporting the Latvian army.
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I'm Kevin Doyle, and today on the Indo Daily, I'm joined by Dunico Bacon, Professor of Politics at the School of Law and Government at DCU, and by our own Colonel Thomas, the political correspondent with the Irish Independent, who's at the United Nations in New York. We're going to examine the ever-growing political tensions and ask if here in Ireland we truly need to be emergency ready. Dunica, this emergency pack that has arrived through all our letterboxes I suppose the first question is why are we getting it now?
Well, the question perhaps is why didn't we get it before? Because most European governments have already issued these kinds of booklets. It's not the first time, of course, we have received a booklet from the government giving us advice about how to deal with imminent danger or major crisis. There was, for example, famously a book in nineteen sixty five, Boss Baja. It was a fifty-five page booklet which was distributed to every home, and that was how to To survive a nuclear war. Now, that was published in the aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis. There was a feeling in the 1960s and indeed the 1970s that we were living under the shadow potentially of a nuclear holocaust. So the government was very much in keeping with the times.
And you might say, well, what are the times today that the government feels it's addressing?
What does the Irish emergency booklet actually contain and how useful is it?
And it's, I guess, the turbulent geopolitical situation that we have generally, but particularly Russia's full-scale invasion. invasion of Ukraine and the hybrid war which has uh stemmed from that. So I think that's perhaps the reason because if you look at other countries, if you look at Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Poland, Sweden, they've all kind of issued in the last year or two similar types of booklets.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Why is the Irish government sending the ‘Be Emergency Ready’ booklet now?
0:24–4:12
2
What does the Irish emergency booklet actually contain and how useful is it?
4:12–7:20
3
How do other European countries structure their emergency preparedness guides?
7:20–11:05
4
What is hybrid warfare and why is it a growing threat to Ireland?
11:05–14:42
5
How are Russia’s recent attacks on European infrastructure influencing preparedness?
14:42–18:52
6
What impact is Donald Trump’s UN speech having on the geopolitical climate?
18:52–22:37
7
What are the experts’ predictions for the next phase of the Russia‑Ukraine conflict and its spill‑over effects on Ireland?
22:37–25:48
8
What single piece of advice should Irish households keep from all the emergency booklets?
25:48–30:11
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