Sinn Féin describes plans to amend deployment triple lock as ‘very dangerous’

A Sinn Féin TD has described the Government’s plans to amend Ireland’s ‘triple lock’ on the deployment of Defence Force peacekeepers overseas as ‘very dangerous’.

A Sinn Féin TD has described the Government’s plans to amend Ireland’s “triple lock” on the deployment of Defence Force peacekeepers overseas as “very dangerous”.

Pearse Doherty said Ireland has an international reputation of having respected peacekeepers throughout the world, which he said is under threat by the Government’s legislation to change the rules that govern how the country’s military is used abroad.