The Irish Neutrality League Is Still Stuck In 1914

Neutrality? More Like Naivety!

The Irish Neutrality League is back—because nothing says “serious foreign policy” like a group of politicians who think the world operates on the same rules as a student debating society. In an era of Russian tanks rolling through Ukraine, Chinese warships bullying the South China Sea, and Iranian drones terrorizing the Middle East, Ireland’s self-appointed guardians of neutrality have decided now is the perfect time to… clutch their pearls and demand we keep asking the UN for permission to defend ourselves and the ability to send troops abroad for peacekeeping missions.

Originally, the Irish Neutrality League was founded in Dublin in September 1914—just weeks after Britain plunged into the First World War—the Irish Neutrality League was a bold but short-lived attempt to rally the then Irish nationalists against participation in what they saw as a foreign imperial conflict. It’s now been reconsituted by some incredibly naive Irish parliamentarians in trying to maintain Ireland's so-ca…