Former peacekeeper says it is wrong for minister to call for Triple Lock removal
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The former head of the country’s largest military representative association says health minister Jennifer Carroll MacNeill is wrong to suggest removing the Triple Lock neutrality protection will enhance our sovereignty and lead to more Irish involvement in peacekeeping.
Gerry Rooney, who led PDForra, the 6,500-strong association for enlisted personnel in the Defence Forces as its deputy general secretary and general secretary for 23 years, made his comments after Ms Carroll MacNeill made her statement while delivering the keynote address at the recent Michael Collins commemoration in Béal na Bláth, Co Cork.
