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State must not disown its duty to protect skies

Sean Riordan’s report in Monday’s Irish Examiner, that ‘we’ may have a secret deal with the UK to shoot down a hijacked airliner, comes as a bit of a surprise, or maybe not. True or false, or partially true, I am more surprised by the suggestion that the Department of Defence could negotiate such an arrangement without at least the technical advice of the Defence Forces.