Former MEPs Clare Daly and Mick Wallace to host neutrality talk in Donegal

Former MEPs Clare Daly and Mick Wallace are coming to Donegal to hold a talk on Irish neutrality. 

The event will take place in Scioból an Phobail, Mín na Craoibhe, Anagaire at 7pm on Friday, April 24. The topic is the importance of retaining neutrality and what can be done to protect it. 

Neutrality is the policy of military non-alignment, upheld by the Triple Lock, which requires the approval of the United Nations, the Government, and the Dáil for overseas troop deployment. 

Daly and Wallace have had a close political association since 2012. Establishing a registered political party, Independents4Change, in 2014. Daly and Wallace are closely aligned in their anti-war and anti-imperialist stances, as well as in their opposition to NATO and support for Irish neutrality. 

In 2019, Daly and Wallace were elected as MEPs and became part of The Left group in the European Parliament. The former MEPs lost their seat in the 2024 European Parliament elections. 

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“Éireann has only known military invasion and occupation for almost 900 years,” Independent Councillor Micheál Choilm Mac Giolla Easbuig said. “Sovereignty and Neutrality have not been a long-term feature in our country. And all of that has shaped the way we think, even.

“Today, we have even less control over how we are governed. Not alone have we English imperialism here, we have Yankee and EU imperialism controlling our political and economic sovereignty now too.

“Despite the clear opposition of the people of Éireann to any ending of even the minimalist neutrality we have, the ruling class is determined NOT to hold a referendum on the triple lock issue.”

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