Lucinda Creighton: Enough of the naivety – we need to take a stand, starting with Russia’s embassy

The revelation last week that 52 Irish officials and politicians have been added to a “banned” list by the Russian Federation came as no surprise. The move is typical of a petulant government which is feeling under pressure, and will use whatever tools it has available to communicate its annoyance to other governments.

This banned list is widely applied, and has been growing since the Russian invasion of Ukraine last February. It includes individuals from ...

LCreighton Have written about it for many years. Eventually there will be a National Intelligence Director, a civilian Intelligence agency, a national Intelligence fusion Centre. Its just a matter of waiting for the disaster and the 'lessons must be learnt' period before anything is done.

LCreighton Arse of the barrel stuff here Business Post.

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