Pat Leahy: So Dame Louise Richardson wasn’t plotting to push us into Nato after all

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Pat Leahy: So Dame Louise Richardson wasn’t plotting to push us into Nato after all
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If Government gave her a gig to achieve the abandonment of neutrality, they should get their money back

– Tramore woman, Trinity scholar, vice-chancellor of Oxford University, Dame of the British Empire, etc, etc – isn’t going to hoodwink the country into joining

Not to be outdone, Paul Murphy told the Dáil that Richardson “supports the assassination of people”. This is, needless to say, a highly tendentious reading of Richardson’s academic work on terrorism, on which she is a world-renowned scholar.Storm Babet: A slow-moving train of rain hit Ireland. The results were disastrousAs is almost inevitable nowadays, President Michael D Higgins weighed in, with personal comments about Richardson for which he subsequently had to apologise.

Anyway, when the forums started, “peace activists” sought to disrupt the proceedings and prevent the discussions taking place. The 89 year-old Margaretta D’Arcy went on stage and decried the forum as a “stitch-up”. Various other protesters disrupted the proceedings, but they went ahead anyway.. All I can say is that if the Government gave her the gig to shove Ireland into Nato, they should ask for their money back.

The question of Ireland’s relationship with Nato merited a whole five paragraphs, mostly noting the difference between the view of the “anti-war” lobby of Nato as an aggressive imperialist force, and the view of the actual members of Nato – especially the nervous eastern European countries – who regard it as a defensive alliance. Of a justification for Ireland abandoning neutrality and joining Nato, there was not a sign.

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