Is it time to join Nato

Yes and admitted I was wrong. Something others find difficult.

Wasnt it you who argued for invasion in the North while also keeping the Triple Lock Francie?

Tell us, who would the Brits on the UN Security Council reacted to our plan?

Are you wrong here too?

"An aid mission" with armed Irish defence force personnel crossing the border of a soverign NATO country.

And if that wasn't bad enough, the state should have ignored and broken its own laws.... hilarious Francie, a great laugh you are this Saturday morning.

You think repeating this is some kind of 'Get out of Jail Free' card, but it isn't. In fact, your using it makes you look utterly foolish and far removed from reality.

I am not advocating Ireland invade a NATO country, you are.

I am advocating getting rid of the Triple Lock, where we the Irish state get to decide our own foreign and defence policy. You seem to be OK with a British veto on the UNSC but to be honest, you just want to argue for the sake of it.

You have two competing arguments that together don't make any sense at all. Sure, you are advocating that when it suits that Ireland ignores and breaks its own laws.... yet you want to KEEP that law.

I thought it was a 'peacekeeping' mission Francie, not an aid mission. I guess the Putin bot in you realise now how stupid it would be to use the word peacekeeping when invading another country.

Anyway, again, within the same post you contradict yourself. If the case arises in your opinion, Ireland should do the 'right thing' regardless of any domestic or international law. So again, why have such a law on the books?

Russia and China (not UK!) are of course the major problem with the "Triple lock" idea. They are 2 pillars of the UN, permanent Security Council members and guardians + watchmen of the post WW2 peace. Nothing can really happen at a UN level if one or other of them block it. The mask is fully off Russia now, they've gone rogue, and it is slipping very badly on China too (IMO it's highly likely they blessed the invasion of Ukraine and told Putin he had their full support). Problems this could cause Ireland in a future crisis were the lock to be enshrined in the Constitution are quite obvious.

The closest similarity in recent times with Francie's crazy insane idea of an aid mission to the North is actions of the Russians in annexing Crimea and sending an "aid mission" to de-nazify Ukraine and help ethnic Russians.

That is the company his idea keeps, so enough said about it.

I had forgotten that Francie's Triple Lock Constitutional initiative would give the Brits a veto on the use of the Irish Army. What a faux-pas!!!!!

No Francie, that threat never existed. It just didn't. There was nobody worrying about the Germans reducing Ireland to rubble during WW", bar a few hysterics.

So now Francie is a believer in British intelligence. Who would have ever thought we would see this day?

Only a few months ago, you were joining in the Sinn Fein chorus about reliance on British intelligence to expel Russian diplomats. If they were so correct in 1940, how were they so wrong in 2021?

Francie, you are a complete charlatan. This is so funny.

Didn't you also claim in another post that the British were planning on invading Ireland during WW2 and now you are crediting British intelligence with helping us at that time? This is so so funny.

What about acting on British intelligence on good republicans and taking it at face value? Is that something we should do?

The credibility of your posts is completely shot. Some friendly advice, if you weren't so determined to double down on all your notions, you wouldn't expose the ridicule as often.

You want rid of the triple lock so OUR intentions cannot be vetoed or blocked? ( you have tried often enough to taunt about this)

I asked had you fully thought through the consequences of removing that constraint and it was clear you hadn't.

Deranged, wanting to hand over our sovereignty to the five great powers on the UN Security Council. Bonkers stuff from you. Imagine Trump, Putin and Johnson squabbling over whether Ireland could send its troops abroad and Ireland not having a say.

I don't think you really believe this stuff and are just posting for effect.

Whatever you believe you are using 'hindsight' as are historians.

At the time the threat was real.

FFS🙄