Cross-party group launches Irish Neutrality League campaign to defend Ireland's triple lock

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People Before Profit TD Paul Murphy, Independent TD Catherine Connolly, Irish Neutrality League convenor Sara O'Rourke, and Independent senator Alice-Mary Higgins at the launch of the cross-party initiative on neutrality. Picture: Cillian Sherlock/PA

Opposition parties and politicians have relaunched the Irish Neutrality League in a bid to protest planned changes to the triple lock.

The league was reconvened during the last Oireachtas term campaign for retention of the triple lock. Currently, the triple lock mechanism only allows deployment of 12 or more troops where there is a mandate from either the UN Security Council or UN General Assembly; Irish Government approval; and a Dáil resolution.