Sir, – Stephen Collins’s excellent piece “Why are Irish people so indifferent to our own defence?” (Opinion & Analysis, April 29th) raises some interesting points.
We need to fund the Defence Forces adequately, to ensure we have sufficient capability on land, sea, and air.
We need to establish a intelligence and security agency, to analyse and support security and defence measures and to analyse any potential threats to the State.
We need to engage with, and work closer with, our European partners in relation to defence.
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We need the ability to deploy our Defence Forces as we so choose, not hampered by the so-called triple lock, and made by a decision of an Irish parliament without the permission of a foreign power.
I look forward to the upcoming discourse on Irish defence and security arrangements. It will be interesting indeed. – Yours, etc,
CONOR HOGARTY,
Blackrock,
Co Dublin.