Fergus Finlay: With this war in Ukraine, the days of Irish neutrality are well behind us

We need to do whatever we can to ensure no safe havens for Putin and his henchmen, writes Fergus Finlay.

A demonstrator in Paris holds a poster showing Russian president Vladimir Putin during a rally in protest against Russia's invasion of Ukraine last  Saturday. Picture: Adrienne Surprenant/AP.

There can be no Irish neutrality in relation to Ukraine. There can be no “constructive abstention” from the fight to stop Vladimir Putin.

If it cannot be argued that a country such as Ireland can take a case-by-case attitude to neutrality (and that argument has never been made effectively), then our policy of military neutrality must end.