TDs and senators call on minister to ensure Ireland is not 'complicit in arming Israel'

While flights carrying weapons are normally prohibited from using Irish airspace, Eamon Ryan is able to use existing statutory instruments to grant airplanes with munitions passage.

A total of 67 TDs and Senators are calling for Eamon Ryan to use his powers to block such planes from entering Irish airspace. File photo: Niall Carson/PA Wire

A group of more than 60 TDs and senators have called on Transport Minister Eamon Ryan to ensure that no flights carrying weapons to Israel are routed through Irish airspace.

The letter, signed by members Sinn Féin, Labour, the Social Democrats, and People Before Profit, as well as independent TDs and senators, is calling for Ireland to not be "complicit in arming Israel".